Short Reviews: Jeff Duntemann

"Drumlin Boiler" [permanent link]. In this amazing, inventive story set on a world where usual metal is scarce, people depend on a strange material known as 'drumlin'. Drumlin is generated by drumming several 'drums' in a sequence to make a known (or unknown) alien object. In a race between two trains, one made of metal, one made of drumlin, the mainly unknown features of drumlin will become important and change the society on the planet.
Found in Apr 2002 Asimov's Science Fiction