Tesseracts 3

by Candas Jane Dorsey, Gerry Truscott | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 9780888782908 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 7/13/2021
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Tuesday, July 13, 2021
I found this paperback at a local Savers thrift shop. It's the third in a series featuring modern Canadian speculative fiction.

Later: Nice variety here, with some stories focusing on very human emotions among the brilliant-scientist characters, others looking into the details of the technologies. Among my favorites:

"Breaking Ball" by Michael Skeet opens with "They still play baseball on Mars" - and leads into issues of whether it's better to alter a planet to meet Earthlings' needs or to modify the Earthlings to suit the new environment. All viewed through the lens of a man and his long-estranged brother.

Margaret Atwood's short entry "Homelanding", with its description of humankind as if being analyzed by an alien - or a very neutral scientist. In its few pages it manages to touch on many of the common rituals and behaviors of humankind, in ways that make them sound rather bizarre - yet the point is that the traveler wants to experience that kind of daily, mundane happenings in this new world.

"A Niche" by Peter Watts examines the kind of character traits needed to survive long spells in a deep-sea base, and why some people simply crack. The crew member who's done the best at this may have special knacks of her own, but they seem to come at a cost... Still, the concept of being able to do more exploration in the ocean's depths (especially with the kind of technology in this story) is oddly tempting!

"Hanging Out in the Third World Laundromat" by Leslie Gadallah is something of a character study, with the main character reluctantly doing the laundry *again* because her roommate has made an art out of being Really Bad at the chore. But while waiting for the cycles to finish, she has these fantasies about other lives she might be living - or are they fantasies or portals into alternate realities?

"Iserman's Override" by Scott Mackay is about an AI responsible for a colony ship - and while that part of the story works well (if a bit grimly), I admit I gave it extra points because one of the code-transcription segments included a reference to a VaxCluster, and as I worked for DEC ages ago (home of the VAX computer line) it gave me a pleasant little nostalgic flash.

"An Alien Sun" by Leah Silverman is a poignant little story in free-verse form, about a mother wondering whether her space-wounded son has truly returned to her from the war with the aliens, or if something else has returned in his place.

"Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large" by James Alan Gardner is a rather amusing speculation on what might happen if immense reality-warping power were to suddenly reside in the person of a young girl, as witnessed by her older sibling.

"Proscripts of Gehenna" by Jean-Louis Trudel mixes lycanthropy-of-a-sort with a settlement on an alien planet, where a messenger gets into trouble trying to defend one of the "wolfies" from abusive youths.

"Guinea Pig" by Francine Pelletier examines medical technologies surrounding organ donation - and how one's beliefs might be tested when a child's survival is at stake.

And many more!

Journal Entry 2 by wingGoryDetailswing at Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Monday, September 13, 2021

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Journal Entry 3 by MyaStone at Cary, North Carolina USA on Sunday, October 17, 2021
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