My number one nomination is Gregory Feeley’s "How Far to th’ End of
the World?", Jul 95 SF Age, 16 pages: Rebellious youth with mystical
yearnings threaten the scientific and engineering establishment on a
long space journey (very well written, IMHO).
Number 2 would be Robert Reed’s "The Remoras", May 94 Magazine of
Fantasy and SF (or Dozois’s Twelfth Year’s Best), 28 pages: Mutant
swabbies soak up the rays on a circum-gallactic ‘sail’.
Number 3, Stephen Baxter’s "Gossamer", Nov 95 SF Age, only 5 pages:
GUTdrive wormhole-transit breakdown due to Alcubierre wave and two
astronauts stranded on Pluto make a discovery.
Perhaps Mark Tiedemann’s "The River’s Time", Mar 94 SF Age, 8 pages: A
perpetual traveler always seeking new levels of dissipation and
transubstantiation.
Last but not least, there’s Damien Broderick’s "Schrodinger’s Dog" in
Dozois's latest (14th) _Year's Best_ (which ought to qualify as a
‘travel’ story ;-)
Mark Crosby
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