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Jo Walton loves Plato’s Republic and imagines Athena using time travel to create The Just City (hard from Tor). People from our past, like Maia, a Victorian spinster originally named Ethel, who prayed to be part of the experiment are picked from their time and sent back to be masters. Ten thousand forty children, including Simmea, are bought at slave auctions over various periods. Apollo is one of them, learning what is human by becoming one. The city is placed on Thera two centuries before the island will explode and erase all traces. There are no slaves because robots provide the labor. When the children are old enough Socrates is added as a teacher, taken just before his fatal hemlock drink. When the children are old enough they are paired in single- day weddings to randomly chosen partners, every four months until most of the girls are pregnant. Socrates is fascinated by the Robots, convinced they are intel- ligent beings and wants to communicate with them. The tale ends with Socrates confronting Athena about the logic of her choices. Fascinating and I think an award nominee. Michael Moorcock has been writing for a living since his teenage years in the middle fifties and was


women mentioned in the Babylon Talmud and prob- ably lived from the late third century to the middle of the fourth century at a time when the Parthian Empire, dominated by Zo- roastrianism ruled Babylon and Persia and was invaded


numerous times by the Romans. It was also a time of strong ceremonial magic with spells written on clay pots and metal amulets. When Hisdadukh was nine, she was asked which of her father’s students she wanted to be betrothed to and told her father both of them. At thirteen she is married to Rani, and has a happy marriage until he is bitten by a snake. Convinced that Raba, the other student, was magi- cally responsible she travels to Israel where a disease kills her daughter and almost kills her. From the very beginning she earns extra money as a certified amulet and blessing maker. But her training becomes more intense as she works


to become an Enchantress (hard from Plume). She is prophesied to have and does have five sons. At the same time her magical pow- ers grow. Eventually she faces the sorcerer who has been turning travelers into burros in the Arabian Des- ert. I was enthralled by the description of Jewish life in the era before Constantine made Christianity the of- ficial religion of the Roman Empire. At times the magic here seems like superstition, but then it starts working. I hope this gets nominated for an award.


tied to the Republic of Aligned Worlds. The Lusita- nian Empire feels Montana is an easy addition to their empire and she is promoted to Lieutenant. Promise soon finds that her platoon of ma- rines, along with Ann, the President and a small militia lacking modern weapons. Mr. Bauers lets you feel the bloody violence involved in military encounters. I can’t wait for sequels.


very much at the core of the NewWave when he edited New Worlds in the late six- ties. However instead of a memoir, which would be well received, he tells of an alternate version of himself with subtle differences (his wife’s name, the number of children and even his birthdate) The radical differ- ence was his ability to enter, Alsatia, the refuge of the Carmelite Friars in which fantasy characters like Pecos Bill and Dumas’s muske- teers share drinks at the pub with real historical figures like Prince Rupert, nephew and general of Charles I. In the real world he hears the noise of The Whisper- ing Swarm (hard from Tor) while he lives the same life as the real author. In Alsatia he finds refuge from the noise and from his wife in the form of Moll Midnight. But things eventually get dangerous when he gets involved in Prince Rupert’s plan to rescue Charles I from beheading by Crom- well in 1649. The tale is a mind-bender, mixing reality with the fantasy Michael Moorcock is known for. It ends when Mr. Moorcock turns thirty and there are two sequels promised.


Joel Shepherd sixth tale


W. C. Bauers tells a very intense tale of future war and an Unbreakable (hard from Tor) heroine who also talks to her dead mother. Promise Paen’s parents were both murdered by Pirates attacking her home world Montana which is loosely


of android Cassandra Kres- nov finds that the Federa- tion is being infiltrated by the Originator ((trade from Pyr) species that created the technology that created her and other GI’s . The Talee have destroyed themselves twice and are very leery of any technology that led to their apocalypses. Sandy’s adopted son Kiril was fit- ted with a growing uplink connection that improves on the connector driving the League literally nuts. In fact for humans it’s a solution to the problem. To get at him, the Talee GIs who look like humans, put Sandy’s home in artificial reality. Only the GI’s can shake it. High ac- tion with lots of fun. Justis Fearsson is a wer- emyste, a magic worker who goes nuts during three nights around the full moon. The only drugs available to curb the symp- toms also keep the magic at bay and, despite his father have mostly gone over the edge, he’s not ready for that. He was a cop, like his father for eight years till his condition got in the way. Now he works as a P. I. Then the Blind Angel, a serial killer he investigated as a cop, returns with a high-profile victim and only Justis knows that magic was involved. Then the killer attacks all the weremystes involved and only really learning how to improve his magic can keep Justis alive. Spell Blind (hard from


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