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Compelling Science Fiction Issue 4 by [Walden, Jeff, Larson, Rich, Barnham, Chris, Wahls, Jamie, Wharton, Ken]

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by Jeff Walden (Author), Rich Larson (Author), Chris Barnham (Author),

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Compelling Science Fiction is a magazine created by people who believe that science fiction is important. Science fiction expands the mind and drives progress through inspiration. Our goal is to find and deliver great science fiction stories that are entertaining, inspiring, and extremely well thought out. Our stories tend to lean toward what is referred to as 'hard' science fiction, in the sense that we prefer stories that are self-consistent, scientifically plausible, and technically detailed when necessary. This issue of Compelling Science Fiction contains five excellent stories:

1. "They Breed Like Flies" by Jeff Walden, a fun, detailed look at the social behaviors of an alien society. The story focuses on a creature at the edge of adulthood as he navigates his own cultural institutions and encounters a human first contact party (8000 words).

2. Rich Larson's "We Are Destroyers," a story about an AI-controlled commune that is attacked by religious fanatics (2700 words).

3. "All That Is Solid" by Chris Barnham, a story about an emergent empathetic AI that is dismantled out of concern over potential repercussions (4330 words).

4. "The Little Gods" by Jamie Wahls, a story about what it's like for parents to watch their enhanced child become vastly more intelligent and capable than them (1700 words).

5. "Down and Out" by Ken Wharton, a fascinating piece of world-building. The narrative revolves around members of an alien water-dwelling species as they make incredible discoveries about their world (6600 words). "Down and Out" is excerpted with permission from "Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories" published by Springer Science + Business Media.

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Publisher: Compelling Science Fiction Ltd.; 1 edition (December 4, 2016)
Publication Date: December 4, 2016
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Language: English
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Wow, what a crop of stories

January 2, 2017

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Wow, what a crop of stories. Compelling Science Fiction has succeeded in reviving some of the "hard" science fiction sensibilities of Asimov and Clarke while maintaining the emotional sharpness of modern sci-fi.

Of the stories in this issue, "The Little Gods" and "All That Is Solid" stand out as particularly hard-hitting and insightful, with tightly crafted narratives that accomplish unique tasks. "The Little Gods" may be going on my "best of 2017" list, to be revisited again and again.

I will confess that the new stories published in this issue - "They Breed Like Flies," "We Are Destroyers," "All That Is Solid," and "The Little Gods" all engaged me more than the reprint from "Science Fiction by Scientists," which focused distractingly on the aliens' biology.

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