5 Dec, 2021
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
Jim Baen’s 1976 The Best from If, Volume III is the third volume in the Best from If series of science fiction anthologies. It collects the best stories from If magazine, a fact you may have deduced from the title.
3 Dec, 2021
Doing the WFC's Homework
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Bethany C. Morrow’s 2018 Mem is a stand-alone historical science fiction novel.
Professor Toutant’s marvelous invention liberated the wealthy from the burden of unpleasant memories. A simple visit to the professor’s Montreal facility — the Vault — and one’s trauma can be off-loaded to an another being. Now relieved of the memory, the rich can go their way, while their Mem remains in the Vault.
Despite appearances, Mems are not people. They are automatons, who will reenacting a moment in time over and over until entropy claims them. The single exception is Dolores Extract No. 1.
1 Dec, 2021
Translation
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Nathalie Henneberg’s 2010 The Green Gods collects the 1980 English adaptation of Henneberg’s Les dieux verts, as well as four other short pieces. The Green Gods was translated1 by C. J. Cherryh. The other stories were translated by Damon Knight.