Several columns and poems as usual in each issue and book reviews as well. The story content is one novella, two novelettes and three short stories.

Uncertainty • novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Brother Swine • shortstory by Garrett Ashley
Needlework • shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
Monday's Monk • novelette by Jason Sanford
Pitching Old Mars • shortstory by Michael Cassutt
Feral Moon • novella by Alexander Jablokov

Two of these stories are very good. The rest were not. Brief comments on the fiction:

The lead-off story, “Uncertainty” by KKR is a time travel story. WWII Nazis. Atom Bomb. I didn't expect to like it but it was so well done that I did. No effort is spent on the reality of time travel in the story. It is a given and the story works on that basis as an agent from the future pokes around.

I didn't care for “Brother Swine” by Garrett Ashley. It was a short story that went on too long. I'm guessing it is set in a near future dystopia. Folks are barely surviving with little to eat. There is also a far away war going on. Life seems completely hopeless. The central business in this story is that everyone who dies, at war or at home is reincarnated as a creature or another person. The creatures if they can, after reincarnation return to their families. The story, for me, was pointless.

“Needlework” by Lavie Tidhar was another short story that I thought pointless. I hate to be harsh, but this is a mish mash of scenes with not much story. Two earthlings dream of a life among the planets that is no better than what they have and maybe worse?

Then we have “Monday’s Monk” by Jason Sanford. This is an excellent novelette. It is the story of a monk in future Thailand, who performs funeral rites for people who have been killed and are being burned for having nanos within them, which can regenerate the person if not completely destroyed. The story open at a very difficult funeral. I liked it a lot.

“Pitching Old Mars” by Michael Cassutt ... very short ... pitching (and failing) an idea about movies of an imaginary old Mars.

“Feral Moon” by Alexander Jablokov's "Feral Moon" is the novella in the issue, about a war on Phobos. I found it quite uninteresting and I didn't like it. ( )

I liked Uncertainty, Mondays Monk, and Pitching Old Mars, but that's all. I really didn't like Feral Moon and since that was the bulk of this issue I just thought this issue was alright. ( )

I liked Uncertainty, Mondays Monk, and Pitching Old Mars, but that's all. I really didn't like Feral Moon and since that was the bulk of this issue I just thought this issue was alright. ( )