Short Reviews: Brenda Cooper

"Choosing Life" [permanent link]. This story (co-authoured by Brenda Cooper and Larry Niven) looks at a person who is deciding whether she wants to be 'scanned' and transferred into a digital self after death. She wonders whether the experience will be 'real' or not and what will she miss if she does do it.
Found in Jan 2002 Analog Science Fiction & Fact
"Free Floaters" [permanent link]. A fascinating story about two humans sent to establish contact with an alien species that lives in the stormy atmosphere of a gas giant planet. Can they communicate with the aliens and discover what it is the aliens want? Will the results put all involved at risk of death?
Found in Aug 2002 Asimov's Science Fiction