Hacker NewsCrystal Nights by Greg Egan
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RanaldCloustonAs a mail subscriber to #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine, I get a vote in their 2025 reader's awards. It was fun to go back and re-read my favourite stories for the year to decide my rankings:
Best Novella:
1. Quantum Ghosts, #NancyKress
2. The Chronolithographer's Assistant, #SuzannePalmer
3. Spare Parts for the Mind, #GregEgan
Best Novelette:
1. Most Things, #RichLarson
2. On the Night Shift, #ZoharJacobs
3. The Fight Goes On, #HarryTurtledove
Best Short Story:
1. Catch a Tiger in the Snow, #RayNayler
2. Lolo's Last Run, #EMKerkman
3. Woolly, #CarrieVaughn
Best Poem:
1. I Try to Explain the Concept of Teeth to My Alien Roommate, #RachelLinton
Best Cover:
1. July/August, #MaurizioManzieri (attached image)
- My subscription started after the Jan/Feb issue, so that got snubbed.
- For all that print #SciFi magazines are now extremely marginal commercially and culturally, this one at least still attracts some pretty great material (mixed in, admittedly, with some so-so stuff) including by veteran greats of the genre - Kress and Turtledove are still producing amazing work in their mid-late 70s!
- I found the Novella section hardest to trim down to 3, with narrow cuts for stories by T.R. Napper, Ted Kosmatka, and John Kessel.
- It was a great year for pets in SF stories, or maybe as a dog- and cat-lover I'm just sucker for them. I found a place in my heart for Lolo, Magritte, Goobler the miniature woolly mammoth, Sponge, and of course, the tiger in the snow!
The most recent #AsimovsScienceFiction to appear in my mailbox features an absorbing cover future story from #GregEgan about a dementia sufferer's experimental brain implants that lead him to a partial recovery, but also highlights a world of techbro hype, conspiracy theories, and dubious intellectual property claims surrounding the technology. My favourite story in the collection was the beautiful, very short, 'Catch a Tiger in the Snow' by #RayNayler . Also nice to see a rare appearance of a New Zealand author in a #SciFi collection, #SeanMonaghan . @bookstodon #Bookstodon
fsoltLos mejores libros que he leído en 2025
Año tras año (y ya van ocho) tengo la costumbre de publicar una entrada a finales de Diciembre recomendando las mejores series, películas, libros, juegos y música que he disfrutado durante los últimos doce meses. En 2025 tenía intención de hacerlo de nuevo, pero me dio muchísima pereza ponerme a rebuscar en el ámbito de series y películas (ya que fue un año bastante vacío en ese apartado), y también me generó un poco de bajón el ver mi wrapped musical lleno de canciones que […]https://fsolt.es/2026/01/los-mejores-libros-que-he-leido-en-2025/
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Filip M. Nowakdear fedi #sciencefiction readers, i am looking for a next #book. to give you an idea what i might be looking for: i've just finished #peterwatts #rifters trilogy and i enjoyed it. my favorite piece of all time is #gregegan #permutationcity (it's still haunting me after all those years). at the other hand, i could not finish #murderbot. please feel free to throw at me anything, just don't send me to check goodreads! (sorry for tag spam, i am in a tight spot 😅)
Page 1 features the most #GregEgan quote ever: "The number of parallel worlds is uncountably infinite - infinite like the real numbers, not merely like the integers". This 1995 collection is significantly earlier work than the other Egan collection I own (Oceanic), and I must admit I prefer the ultra far future Amalgam universe approach of his more recent stories, but this is still a very solid collection. @bookstodon #Bookstodon #SciFi
ActusfGreg Egan - L'énigme de l'univers... Un roman exigeant et parfois obscur mais qui mérite le détour.
SanChronique hebdomadaire écourtée cette semaine. J’ai pris conscience que le mode de la santé – hospitalisations ambulatoires et quelques inconvénients sans gravité – fonctionne dans une bulle dont la trame du temps est ralentie par rapport à nos quotidiens, une bulle faite d’attente et de sollicitations.
Dr Richard HusseyBook 47 is "Diaspora" by Greg Egan.
Edit: finished 15th July.
