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Samantha Mills‘s “ Anchorage” a medical spaceship stops at an “anchorage” – an isolated pod where a woman lives a hermit-like existence. The story is told by Geneva, the AI running the medical ship, which allows us to slowly learn the backstory of the crewmembers, of dead Earth, and of course of Geneva, all modulated by what we hear from the anchoress in her pod. James Yu‘s “ In the Space of Twelve Minutes” is told by Reuben, an astronomer researching the possible existence of a planet well beyond Pluto. His wife is a taikonaut, part of a Chinese mission to Mars. He has been provided an “avatar” of her – a robot with an AI based on his wife, and updated via a link to her – a contrivance to help maintain the stability of the taikonauts on their lonely mission. The story effectively mingles several SFnal themes: the search for life on Mars, the hope of exploration of the far reaches of the Solar System, and, perhaps most importantly, the issu ....