The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois

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[scott_sanford]

Conflict of interest. The author is an old sparring partner from the USENET group rec.arts.sf.written.

I remember you on rec.arts.sf.written but have no recollection of Tom Maddox.

[ba_munronoe]

Perhaps he posted under a pseudonym?

On the subject of Turtledove's Sims [1] and the Colombian Exchange, I read a while back (in a book on the history of bread, of all things) that British settlers became dependent on corn early on: it turns out that much of Eastern North America was a bad place for wheat, which a variety of local molds and rusts found very tasty.

[1] A word now with odd associations

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. The dependence of early colonists on buildings, clearings, and species created by the Native Americans is greatly underestimated. In the Sims universe we have a North America without maize in its useful form, without empty buildings and already cleared fields for the Pilgrims to take over, and without friendly people to adopt the survivors of failed colonies like Roanoke.

[james_davis_nicoll]

I am laughing malevolently for unrelated reasons.


https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/bookofmyenemy.html