Lightspeed Magazine, September 2013
by John Joseph Adams, D. Thomas Minton, Lisa Tuttle, Will McIntosh, Nina Allan, Matthew Hughes, Lauren Beukes, Annalee Newitz, Seanan McGuire, Kim Stanley Robinson, Gene Wolfe, Marc Laidlaw, Robert Silverberg
why yes I'm listening to Lightspeed's podcast while cleaning. :) I should probably rate this higher because it totally made me tear up, but instead I'm thinking about the particularly North American style (conflation, really) of heroism and football that underlies the story. Not that that makes it bad; the cultural specificity actually helps the story. It's just an interesting assumption that makes me wonder about how this would play out in other cultural contexts.
oh, oh, OH, the model of heroism being referenced is working class. That's what I was trying to put my finger on. One player is a scientist, but hers is vaguer than the other vignettes, and honestly it doesn't work as well as the others.