A review by crunden
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July/August 2020 by Benja­min Rosenbaum, Richard Schiffman, Sean Monaghan, Ray Nayler, Ted Kosmatka, Erwin S. Strauss, Robert Silverberg, Sheila Williams, Tom Purdom, Will McIntosh, Megan Lindholm, James Patrick Kelly, Peter Wood

3.0

⚜ poetry review ⚜

I quite liked 'Planets' by Richard Schiffman.

As if the future, while not quite visible to the naked eye,
was not light-years away either
but something a child could almost reach up
and pluck


It feels like a coming of age poem, centred around the space race.