News You Can Bruise for 2008 September 28

I don't usually enjoy writing critiques for my writing group, especially when I miss the meeting by being out of town and my critiques are late anyway. But they are, I hope, useful to the people whose stories I critique, and sometimes when writing them I manage to put into words something about science fiction. Today's object lesson: "in an alien environment, the natural object of empathy is the alien."