David H.’s Reviews > The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection > Status Update
David H.
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Rachel in Love - Murphy: Fantastic story about a young girl in a chimp body.
Dream Baby - McAllister: Vietnam War + psychic powers, with an intriguing nurse MC.
Flowers of Edo - Sterling: A bit of an exploration of Meiji era social changes, with a bit of fantasy at the very end.
Forever Yours, Anna - Wilhelm: An obsessed graphologist falls in love with his subject, to interesting effects.
— Feb 24, 2026 06:18AM
Dream Baby - McAllister: Vietnam War + psychic powers, with an intriguing nurse MC.
Flowers of Edo - Sterling: A bit of an exploration of Meiji era social changes, with a bit of fantasy at the very end.
Forever Yours, Anna - Wilhelm: An obsessed graphologist falls in love with his subject, to interesting effects.
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David H.
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Halley's Passing - McDowell: A man appears to kill someone every day.
America - Card: Reread. I very vaguely recalled this one, but also, it's much worse than I remembered.
For Thus Do I Remember Carthage - Bishop: Hyperadvanced science encounters St. Augustine.
Mother Goddess of the World - Robinson: Climbing Mount Everest with a Buddhist lama.
— Feb 28, 2026 09:23AM
America - Card: Reread. I very vaguely recalled this one, but also, it's much worse than I remembered.
For Thus Do I Remember Carthage - Bishop: Hyperadvanced science encounters St. Augustine.
Mother Goddess of the World - Robinson: Climbing Mount Everest with a Buddhist lama.
David H.
is 84% done
The Million-Dollar Wound - Whitlock: A future war and the effect of 'miraculous' healing on soldiers.
The Moon of Popping Trees - Garcia y Robertson: Various indigenous Americans look for a new way out in 1890.
Diner - Barrett, Jr.: A sad tragic town in Texas. Everything sucks.
All the Hues of Hell - Wolfe: Hel and shadows and demons or something.
— Feb 27, 2026 03:45PM
The Moon of Popping Trees - Garcia y Robertson: Various indigenous Americans look for a new way out in 1890.
Diner - Barrett, Jr.: A sad tragic town in Texas. Everything sucks.
All the Hues of Hell - Wolfe: Hel and shadows and demons or something.
David H.
is 74% done
Candle in a Cosmic Wind - Manzione: A first-and-land contact story, quite interesting.
The Emir's Clock - Watson: A boring flat story for me.
Ever After - Palwick: Cinderella with a twist.
The Forest of Time - Flynn: A parallel-world jumper is captured by Knecht in an alternate disunited America. Very interesting.
— Feb 26, 2026 06:04PM
The Emir's Clock - Watson: A boring flat story for me.
Ever After - Palwick: Cinderella with a twist.
The Forest of Time - Flynn: A parallel-world jumper is captured by Knecht in an alternate disunited America. Very interesting.
David H.
is 57% done
Night of the Cooters - Waldrop: What if the Martians from War of the Worlds landed in Texas? Fantastic.,
Angel - Cadigan: A strange story of a person and their 'Angel.' Loved it even when i didn't get it.
Shades - Shepard: Reread. A veteran/journalist faces an old ghost back in Vietnam.
The Faithful Companion at Forty - Fowler: Tonto is pretty pissed at the Lone Ranger. Great voice.
— Feb 25, 2026 06:24PM
Angel - Cadigan: A strange story of a person and their 'Angel.' Loved it even when i didn't get it.
Shades - Shepard: Reread. A veteran/journalist faces an old ghost back in Vietnam.
The Faithful Companion at Forty - Fowler: Tonto is pretty pissed at the Lone Ranger. Great voice.
David H.
is 47% done
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - Le Guin: Mythic story involving Coyote and a human girl.
The Pardoner's Tale - Silverberg: A "pardoner"/hacker spends some time in LA. Very good.
Glass Cloud - Kelly: An architect is given an opportunity by an alien, but everyone sucks.
The Evening and the Morning and the Night - Butler: A picture painted of a fictional disease and how one might live with it. Very good.
— Feb 25, 2026 03:00PM
The Pardoner's Tale - Silverberg: A "pardoner"/hacker spends some time in LA. Very good.
Glass Cloud - Kelly: An architect is given an opportunity by an alien, but everyone sucks.
The Evening and the Morning and the Night - Butler: A picture painted of a fictional disease and how one might live with it. Very good.
David H.
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At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball - Jablokov: An art critic who specializes in created-worlds. Pretty cool.
Dinosaurs - Williams: Humanity has "evolved," in a way that doesn't involve consciousness.
The Temporary King - McAuley: A freespacer comes to town, causes chaos. Things change.
Perpetuity Blues - Barrett, Jr.: I think Dozois and I have very different senses of humor after all. It's fine, I guess.
— Feb 24, 2026 04:04PM
Dinosaurs - Williams: Humanity has "evolved," in a way that doesn't involve consciousness.
The Temporary King - McAuley: A freespacer comes to town, causes chaos. Things change.
Perpetuity Blues - Barrett, Jr.: I think Dozois and I have very different senses of humor after all. It's fine, I guess.
