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Romance in Extended Time [MultiFormat]
eBook by Tom Purdom
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Troubles abound in a terraformed Mercury forest as a man seeks love during political upheaval.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimov's SF Magazine, 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2000
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [219 KB], eReader (PDB) [63 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [53 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [49 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [86 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [116 KB], hiebook (KML) [141 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [78 KB], iSilo (PDB) [43 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [55 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [82 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [75 KB]
Words: 15961
Reading time: 45-63 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Now to the highlights. I've been quite impressed with Tom Purdom's work lately. The last time I called somebody who had been writing for over 40 years a "grizzled veteran", they threatened me with their walker, so I say that I don't know if Purdom's hair is grizzled or not, but I do know his first story was published in 1959. He's never been prolific, and he's never really made a big splash, but just in the last few years he's done some really interesting stuff for Asimov's, mostly on the subject of what I think of as "posthumanity". In his latest, "Romance in Extended Time", as in some earlier stories, he considers how people will react to the knowledge that despite their enhanced abilities and lifespans, future generations, with the benefit of even more enhancements, will inevitably leave them behind. And they'll still be around to see it, living much longer as they will. This story features Joe Baske, a "Casanova-like" character, and his attempt to strike up a romance with a much younger woman he encounters on Mercury. Purdom mixes in financial and political skullduggery, and detail of his future social system. It's entertaining and science-fictionally interesting. -Rich Horton, Tangent Online (Learn more about Tangent Online, the Internet's leading SF&F short fiction review website)
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