Short Reviews: Tom Purdom

"Fossil Games" [permanent link]. This story is set in a future where artificial enhancements are common but it can be a rat-race trying to keep with up the latest ones. One man who cannot do so anymore signs up for a colonising ship, hoping to use his 'out-of-date' enhancements to advantage on it. Time, ship-board politics and sociology prove to be his strong-points especially when conflict begins to appear over wherther the ship should colonise the planet they are heading or to continue on to a different planet. An engrossing tale but it goes into too much detail at some parts of the story.
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"The Noise of Their Joye" [permanent link]. An interesting tale about a group of time travellers who visit J.S. Bach. Their task is to copy Bach's manuscripts that have been lost. But their mission, where they must alo avoid changing the past, is complicated by one of the time travellers becoming obsessed with getting every Bach manuscipt and Bach's own obsession with one of the time travellers who plays the harpsicord well; perhaps too well.
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