Tag: Ian Stewart

Hydra

Hydra

by Ian Stewart (Analog, February 1993)

Magazine cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1993

Not so much a short story as the author’s midnight musings on Von Neumann Probes, tacked onto the end of an all-female deep-space mining scenario. While big on character conflict, Stewart skips though action sections as if wielding a mis-firing magic eraser.

Derelict Space Sheep