What Mad Diversions — Ted Reynolds

If the Great Author in the Sky is now creating my future, I only hope s/he's not planning to place me in any of the situations I place my own characters into. Still, once I've created them, I let them make their own decisions what to do about it, so it isn't all my fault. And these stories all involve critical decisisons. . . but don't they all?



What Mad Diversion: A few decades together in the same spaceship can make even the best of friends a bit, er. . . edgy?



Angel Unaware: How do you tell the humans from the robots . . . or the angels from the demons?



View Through the Window: Even with the whole universe as a backdrop, it sometimes can be hard to remain uninvolved locally.



Meeting of Minds: The previous colony was completely massacred. Questioning a three-year-old may uncover how and why . . . or may kill him.



And some other morsels for thought.



These stories have previously appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Amazing Stories, Pandora, or Analog.