Tor.com 10/21, 10/28, 11/11, 11/18/20
While many of
Locus‘s reviewers are deeply entrenched in 2021, I’ll be spending this month and the next wrapping up everything I can from 2020. The joy of online publication is the ease of getting content quickly, but it means I rarely get to see issues in advance. So please enjoy these last hurrahs of an otherwise insane year, and make sure to keep stories from the end of 2020 in mind when it comes time for award nominations and voting.
October’s
Brenda Cooper, “
Callme and Mink“. Julie is a robot who trains service dogs. Although she’s moved around a lot in this post-collapse future, she’s settled in a seaside town, where she’s been training a younger dog for some time when a local shopkeeper refers a wandering family to her. They have an ailing daughter, unable to walk on her own, and Julie decides that they’re a worthy fit for Mink. She takes the time to train the family on how best to handle and provide for the d
Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-0982846742 Anthology of 11 stories and several novel excerpts, first published in 2018, including the winners of the Nebula Awards given out in 2019. There are also two essays original to the book.
This volume marks a change in publisher and in title format, following
Nebula Awards Showcase 2019, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which lacked novel excerpts.
Authors include Mary Robinette Kowal, Aliette de Bodard, Brooke Bolander, Phenderson Djèlí Clark, Andy Duncan, Sarah Pinsker, and Martha Wells.
SFWA’s site has this description with the table of contents. Purchase this book from Amazon | Indiebound
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