#rick cook

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Marina, a short film by Eva Steinmetz

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Assignment Scotland Autumn 2017

Photography

Digital Photography

Rick Cook

Cookra Limited

London, United Kingdom

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David Mattingly, The Samurai Defender (cover of Limbo System)

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

—Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

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Analog (March 1999)

Back from vacation, I had a good time. You'll get part of one picture after the review.

It's Analog again, and we've got a lone novella, two novelettes, and four short stories.

Novella

Elephants' Graveyard, David Alexander and Hayford Peirce

A former negotiator turned interstellar trucker finds danger and conflict and opportunity for himself. Also other people die, in ways that maybe he deliberately didn't prevent, but who cares about them.

Seems to be part of a series of sorts, context would have helped but isn't really necessary.

Novelettes

Flowers and the Last Hurrah, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Fake news and clones. Temporary expendable clones.

Eh.

The Host of the Air, Rick Cook

Antigravity and nomadic life mixed with a reckless teenager.

A coming of age story, retirement age.

Short Stories

Flame of Iron, Michael F. Flynn

Old vendettas never really die.

Upgrade, Ramona Louise Wheeler

Read the fine print on your contracts. Lol.

20 years later and I remembered very nearly every single detail of this story.

Image of an Imperfect God, Shane Tourtellotte

Cloning and telomere shortening and family drama.

Pretty good.

Means of Survival, Sarah Zettel

Teleporters and warfare and luddites. Conviction evaporates quickly when it stands in the way of a loved one's recovery.

Final Thoughts

A good issue all around.

And here you go, my picture, a lizard on a blade of grass: