If you don’t have a copy, it’s available online. This is not going to be another review of “At the Fall.” I want to talk about the ideas that are presented in the story and that will spin out spoilers. (It’s going to be hilarious if I start reviewing it for the third when I read the Clarke or Strahan anthology and forgotten this time.) Is that memory, or do I just generate thoughts in a predictable way? Well anyway, this story is being anthologized in at least three best-of-the-year SF anthologies so it’s probably worth writing about again. The Twilight Zone music sometimes plays when I reread what I wrote, especially when I think of things to say in the same way I had previously. It’s both amusing and disturbing that I forget what I write. (And I’ve written this before on other forgotten ocasions. What’s even weirder is when I reread the review it expressed all the ideas I was entertaining for writing this version of the review. I discovered I had when I searched Google for images about the story. I had actually forgotten I had done that.

“At the Fall” by Alec Nevala-Lee is one of the few stories I read when they came out in 2019 and I liked it so much I reviewed it back then. I’m reading The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4 edited by Allan Kaster, and writing down what I consider blog-worthy reactions.

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