Hugos: Last few short stories
"Bridecicle" by Will McIntosh
I quite liked this. Very archetypical sf short, somewhat heavy handed allegory about gender and society and stuff but it didn't go to the overly dark place I thought it was going and made it's point reasonably well.
"Bride of Frankenstein"
This is better written, the prose flows lightly and has a clever humour to it, but the basic premise ("Lol! Imagine if Frankenstein's wife was a whiny shrew!") is a creaky collection of stereotypes saying nothing very interesting.
"The Moment" by Lawrence M. Schoen
I liked this when it was a deeply implausible stream of space-opera-ish pseudo-history, but not when it took itself seriously.
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I quite liked this. Very archetypical sf short, somewhat heavy handed allegory about gender and society and stuff but it didn't go to the overly dark place I thought it was going and made it's point reasonably well.
"Bride of Frankenstein"
This is better written, the prose flows lightly and has a clever humour to it, but the basic premise ("Lol! Imagine if Frankenstein's wife was a whiny shrew!") is a creaky collection of stereotypes saying nothing very interesting.
"The Moment" by Lawrence M. Schoen
I liked this when it was a deeply implausible stream of space-opera-ish pseudo-history, but not when it took itself seriously.
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