11 review for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1989 (Asimov's Science Fiction, #148)

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   5 out of 5

   Kevin Phyland – Dec 25, 2020

   A group of high school students in 1978 took a chemical cocktail which they thought would enhance their IQs - the outcomes were much different. When they reunite ten years later the results have clearly become problematical in “Fast Cars” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Tanith Lee shows us “Zelle’s Thursday”, an ongoing nightmare of jealousy, rape and android bigotry but luckily’she’ doesn’t really get easily offended, and Janet Kagan takes us back to Mirabile where the genengineered plants and anima A group of high school students in 1978 took a chemical cocktail which they thought would enhance their IQs - the outcomes were much different. When they reunite ten years later the results have clearly become problematical in “Fast Cars” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Tanith Lee shows us “Zelle’s Thursday”, an ongoing nightmare of jealousy, rape and android bigotry but luckily’she’ doesn’t really get easily offended, and Janet Kagan takes us back to Mirabile where the genengineered plants and animals throw chimeras (Dragon’s Teeth) every few generations and one such brings about “The Return Of The Kangaroo Rex” which needs a very specific local niche. Alexander Jablokov closes the issue with the grim tale of humans using cetaceans in bitter wars and torturing them mercilessly until they communicate with them. Finally they take a whale to Jupiter to find God in “A Deeper Sea”. Strangely compelling.

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   4 out of 5

   OTIS –

3. 

   5 out of 5

   jennet wheatstonelllsl –

4. 

   5 out of 5

   SHUiZMZ –

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   5 out of 5

   Tina –

6. 

   4 out of 5

   Michaela –

7. 

   5 out of 5

   Michael Joseph Schumann –

8. 

   4 out of 5

   Tawnya Fugate –

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   5 out of 5

   Edwardky –

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    4 out of 5

    Ylilith –

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    4 out of 5

    Marica Davis –