Claim Blame by Alan Dean Foster
Another installment in a series about Mad Amos Malone who assists with supernatural problems in pioneer America. This story had no suspense and no "moral". Of all the installments in this installment-heavy issue, this is probably the one that annoyed me the most.
Application by Lewis Shiner
A delightful, cautionary tale at flash-fiction length.
Breathe by Steven Popkes
A story of two brothers who have inherited an alternative form of vampirism. As one of the brothers observes, you can't really call it anything else and yet it is nothing like a traditional vampire. What I liked about this story is that the speculative aspect fitted so superbly with a tale about siblings with profoundly different outlooks on life and how their relationship with each other and their father copes with this.
The Ladies in Waiting by Albert E. Cowdrey
Another series and another set of problem-solvers. To be fair all the other series have single protagonists while this one has a couple. Still, these formulaic series with no suspense feel like a throwback to an earlier form of fiction which does not delight my sensibilities.
If the Stars Reverse Their Courses, If the Rivers Run Back from the Sea by Alter S. Reiss
In the wake of a civil war, a retired colonel seeks a way to set the past right. This story contains an interesting take on how a "multiverse" might work and how changing the past may or may not affect things. Ultimately, though, I found the tale unsatisfying.
Waiting for a Me Like You by Chris Willrich
Another take on the "multiverse" and what it might mean in which Bob voyages out to take a new assignment. Like the other "multiverse" tale, I didn't see the point of this one. It's only virtue is that it was short. Maybe they were supposed to create a juxtaposition?
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