I don't pay any attention to reviews except, when, like, you know, I do. So I'll admit to being pleased when a reviewer seems to find the same sweet spot in reading the story that I found when I writing it. In this case, over the past two or three days, three different reviewers really liked two different recent stories.
"Today is Today" is a multiverse story about a retired football player with a Down syndrome daughter. It ran in the Stonecoast Review #9, and the reviewer for the print edition of Locus magazine said, "The story is in the end about a father and his daughter – and quite movingly so – and the SFnal apparatus is an enabling element, but used quite effectively." He gives it a Recommended.
"The Secret City" is a novella, and it's another of my alternate-history stories about famous baseball player-spy Moe Berg. It's in the current September/October Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. It may be be the last of my Moe Berg stories. Or not.
The reviewer in SFRevu talks at length about the story and ends with "I enjoyed this one immensely and it is a great end to the story. But I wouldn't mind seeing another series with Berg and his lady friend sometime in the future." So, hmm, maybe I wouldn't mind that either.
And the reviewer in Tangent Online said of "The Secret City, that it was "a gripping story as it interlaced an eclectic mixture of historical figures with alternative facts. Well worth the read."
I'll admit to liking those kinds of critical reactions: "a gripping story," "I enjoyed this one immensely" and the emotional story is told "quite movingly" and then gets a "Recommended". So that's not a bad couple of days.
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