Locus - Nick Gevers
"Meanwhile, Aeon, published by Scorpius Digital, has reached issue eight, and also delivers very literate fiction - if more playful than that in Polyphony. This time, the highlight is undoubtedly "Palaces of Force" by Martin McGrath, an alternate history/secret history involving an apocryphal meeting between Mahatma Ghandi, still a young lawyer, and the doomed Irish patriot Roger Casement on a train to the Paris Exposition of 1889. Set down many decades later by one of Ghandi's friends, their conversations are eloquent foreshadowings of the technological and ideological dilemmas of the ensuing centuries, and the concluding note is craftily indeterminate. An instructive speculation. Of interest also are "Echo Beach" by Daniel Marcus, concerning a barkeep at the end of time (or at least when our Sun goes nova); "Playing Dice" by Ron Savage, which proposes different career paths for Albert Einstein, the quantum laws he denounced modulating his being; and "Thinking" by Lawrence M. Schoen, which interrogates academic examination methods with ferocious vigor."
Locus - Rich Horton
"Aeon is an electronically distributed magazine with a provocative personality of its own. They publish a mix of poetry, features, including science articles by Rob Furey and essays by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and a wide variety of generally exotic fiction. The best story in issue eight was Will McIntosh's "Oxy", set in a far future where environmental change and human change result in people with distinctly different personalities coexisting."
"Meanwhile, Aeon, published by Scorpius Digital, has reached issue eight, and also delivers very literate fiction - if more playful than that in Polyphony. This time, the highlight is undoubtedly "Palaces of Force" by Martin McGrath, an alternate history/secret history involving an apocryphal meeting between Mahatma Ghandi, still a young lawyer, and the doomed Irish patriot Roger Casement on a train to the Paris Exposition of 1889. Set down many decades later by one of Ghandi's friends, their conversations are eloquent foreshadowings of the technological and ideological dilemmas of the ensuing centuries, and the concluding note is craftily indeterminate. An instructive speculation. Of interest also are "Echo Beach" by Daniel Marcus, concerning a barkeep at the end of time (or at least when our Sun goes nova); "Playing Dice" by Ron Savage, which proposes different career paths for Albert Einstein, the quantum laws he denounced modulating his being; and "Thinking" by Lawrence M. Schoen, which interrogates academic examination methods with ferocious vigor."
Locus - Rich Horton
"Aeon is an electronically distributed magazine with a provocative personality of its own. They publish a mix of poetry, features, including science articles by Rob Furey and essays by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and a wide variety of generally exotic fiction. The best story in issue eight was Will McIntosh's "Oxy", set in a far future where environmental change and human change result in people with distinctly different personalities coexisting."
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