Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #80
Vol 16/No.3
Sept 2020
Story and Author | Tags/Hub Areas | Therapeutic Tags | Personal Rating |
Concinitty by David Taub | First contact, LGBTIQ, stasis, cultural trade, religion | Tolerance, pacifism, acceptance | ***1/2 |
Maryam Versus the Replicator by AJ Brennan | Colonisation, stasis, AI, asteroid disaster | Consolation of food, whimsy | *** |
Milky Way Or, Galatea by Avru Margariti (poem) | Cosmology, God, myth | Self determination | **** |
(true) by Laura DeHaan | Robots, witches, non-binary language, LGBTIQ | Humour, tolerance | ***1/2 |
Where Else But Queensland? By Paradox Delilah | Aliens, benevolent, first nations, global warming, Australia | Co-operation, teamwork | **** |
The Bride of the Blob by David Stevens | Kaiju, astronauts, nuclear mutation, pulp scifi, alternate universes, Douglas Adams | Satire, surrealism, transcendence, union | **** |
Intergalactic Gigolo by Linda Ann LoSchiavo (poem) | Symbiosis | Sex | *** |
Shimmer, Shimmer by Catherine Yu | Witchcraft, urban fantasy, initiation | Belonging, trust | *** |
The Appearance of Joseph Bendy in the Likeness of a Ten-Part Choir by Brenda Anderson | Mechanical animals, unobtainium, clones, steampunk | Belonging, vocation, animal rights | ** |
He Who Stands and Waits by David Cleden | Post apocalypse airborn virus, killer robot sentry | Survival, ingenuity, hope | *** |
All the Stars In Her Eyes by Deborah Sheldon | Killer asteroid, disaster, mental breakdown, alien impregnation, Melbourne, Australia | Mother love | *** |
Behold by Louis R Rosenberg | Androids, jinns, genies, three wishes, Aladdin | Greed, frugality, thrift, needs versus wants | **** |
Arboreal Recovery Cluster, Node 896 by Ramez Yoakeim | Robots, global warming, rescue mission | Hope, self sacrifice, empathy, humanity, tenacity | ***** |