Fantasy & Science Fiction: May 2008

F&SF has several nice stories in May 2008, especially Gilbow’s and Cowdrey’s, but Pollack’s ambitious novelet overshadows them all.
“Reunion” by Robert Reed
The graduating class of a small town is the locus of statistically impossible success.  Billionaires, politicians, actors, spies, and scientists.  Half the graduates have become fabulously rich and famous.
The daughter of one of the less-famous classmates shows [...]

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Vote for me and I’ll put gasoline in the drinking fountains!

Watching the presidential candidates promise voters cheaper gas reminds me of when I was in the third grade, watching a couple sixth graders give speeches about why they should be elected class president.  One promised to put soda pop in the drinking fountains.
Thing is, I bet if you put it to a vote most Americans [...]

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