Comments on: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection / Gardner Dozois ed.

By: hansdekker

hansdekker — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:45:34 +0000

I’ve worn glasses for most of my life. It keeps on sucking. Contacts are better but they still suck. A few times I’ve had to adjust to new glasses with different specs. Sucks even more. Headaches, tiredness, but also the jubilant feeling of seeing so much better without trying. But getting your eyes to not try is really straining. Make any sense?

One day I’ll get me one of them operations.

By: King Rat

King Rat — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:03:26 +0000

Here’s what Kress wrote:
When the man took his dollar, Harry held his breath: each first time made a little pip in his stomach. But no one ever looked at the dates of old bills.

In Great Work of Time, one of the travelers goes to great effort to acquire older money. But he’s going back well over a century in that story.

By: laurel

laurel — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:06:33 +0000

Re: The Price of Oranges

Did he use modern money or 1930s money (presumably he couldn’t cash a social security check dated 70 years in the future)? And does 1930s money cost more than modern money?