The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six
I will update this anthology as I go along…
– SEEDING THE MOUNTAIN by M. L. Clark
“In another century, the great Gabo would have summed up the miracle in a sentence running pages long, interwoven with tales of floating virgins, moldering fallen angels, and dictators who died and maybe rose again.“
I am definitely not a fan of sentences running pages long, stuffed full of superfluous adverbs and adjectives. Hard pass. ★☆☆☆☆
– RED_BATI by Dilman Dila — a conscious pet robot fighting for its life and meaning on a mining ship. Read this before in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora and found it a bit blander this time around. I really liked it the first time, but in all honesty it lacks real conflict. The bot stories by Suzanne Palmer for example are a lot more fun to read. ★★★☆☆
My summarized review of the Dominion anthology is here.
– INVISIBLE PEOPLE by Nancy Kress — parents find out that their adopted daughter has been genetically altered as an embryo. Besides the ethical questions this throws up, it‘s a well-written thriller. Great character development for a short story, I was with them every step of the way. ★★★★★
I should probably have a deeper look at Nancy Kress, I seem to like her…
– TEXTBOOKS IN THE ATTIC by S. B. Divya — climate change has flooded towns, antibiotics are rare for those less privileged. A mother searches for a way to save her son. ★★★★★
More from the author, including two free stories, here on tor.com. Very readable and a nice palate cleaners after finishing my recent doorstopper!
Cathy's Reading Bonanza 
I’ve enjoyed the Nancy Kress stories I’ve read, too. I plan to read more of her work, just haven’t gotten to it yet. And the bot stories by Suzanne Palmer are so much fun to read! I hope she has more planned, though I haven’t heard one way or the other.
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