A review by cabridges
Asimov's Science Fiction, November/December 2017 by Robert Frazier, Jane Yolen, Greg Egan, Emily Taylor, Connie Willis, G.O. Clark, James E. Gunn, Michael Cassutt, Peter J. Heck, Erwin S. Strauss, Rick Wilber, Joel Richards, Robert Silverberg, H. Mellas, Sheila Williams, Jack McDevitt, Norman Spinrad, Tom Purdom, James Patrick Kelly, Jennifer Crow, Jason Sanford, Ken Poyner, Nick Wolven

3.0

I’m a Connie Willis fan, but this one didn’t do it for me. It read like a good but unfinished idea for a longer work, or an overlong short story that spends too much time overwhelming us with the main concept but then not doing anything with it. If she ever expands it into a more developed story, I’d love to see where she takes it.