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psocopteraA bunch of recs, which might be a bit inflated by the "grocery shopping while hungry" effect, where the first few stories are more different than anything else I've been reading lately, and by the time I'm a couple of magazines in it's going to take more for anything to stand out. But, enh, I enjoyed all of these, so hey.
Gentle Dragon Fires, T.K. Rex and Leslie Kinyon, Strange Horizons. Forestry, intentional burning, and waiting too long.
More interactive fiction sex stories! More after last year, I mean. The Thirteenth Knot, Yeonsoo Julian Kim, and First Times, Nibedita Sen. I actually played First Times last year while reading 2021 stuff - it's a really clever use of the interactive fiction format, someone trying to have sex for the first time and using a time turner to "get it right", and I actually thought I had recced it last year, but apparently not. It is definitely porny - like E for explicit-rated - so, uh, heads up for that. NaughtyBits, Erin Roberts, is another fun use of the IF format, in which you get to play a chatbot taking a Turing test.
Intimacies, Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, Strange Horizons. An alien-encounter/culture clash story where a seahorse person meets a human person.
The Elysian Job, Margaret Ronald, Strange Horizons. Cute and fun retell.
Coming Through in Waves, Samantha Murray, Strange Horizons. Aliens and dementia.
Objects of Value, AnaMaria Curtis, Strange Horizons. Memory and a doomed city.
You, Me, Her, You, Her, I, Isabel J. Kim, Strange Horizons. Art and memory and temping.
Gentle Dragon Fires, T.K. Rex and Leslie Kinyon, Strange Horizons. Forestry, intentional burning, and waiting too long.
More interactive fiction sex stories! More after last year, I mean. The Thirteenth Knot, Yeonsoo Julian Kim, and First Times, Nibedita Sen. I actually played First Times last year while reading 2021 stuff - it's a really clever use of the interactive fiction format, someone trying to have sex for the first time and using a time turner to "get it right", and I actually thought I had recced it last year, but apparently not. It is definitely porny - like E for explicit-rated - so, uh, heads up for that. NaughtyBits, Erin Roberts, is another fun use of the IF format, in which you get to play a chatbot taking a Turing test.
Intimacies, Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, Strange Horizons. An alien-encounter/culture clash story where a seahorse person meets a human person.
The Elysian Job, Margaret Ronald, Strange Horizons. Cute and fun retell.
Coming Through in Waves, Samantha Murray, Strange Horizons. Aliens and dementia.
Objects of Value, AnaMaria Curtis, Strange Horizons. Memory and a doomed city.
You, Me, Her, You, Her, I, Isabel J. Kim, Strange Horizons. Art and memory and temping.
