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Terraforming A Barren Planet — With Your Bare Hands
Once again, the best thing in the current Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is a very political novella about spying during wartime. Like Robert Reed's "Five Thrillers," which we praised a few months ago, "The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay features spies, political turmoil and genetically altered human colonists at odds with the ortho-humans. This time around, though, it's a sequel to the taut spy story "The Political Officer," which F&SF has just posted online for free. Meanwhile, Maurizio Manzieri, who illustrated Reed's "Five Thrillers," has posted his full artwork. You can see a detail above — click through to see the whole thing. More »
