Challenge 1146

Drumhead

In C. H. Russellson’s Gravity of the Moment:
1. About how much time does Ian Brock spend in suspended animation or its equivalent? What is Neal Grayson doing in the meantime?
2. Why would a trip to Proxima Centauri require a generation ship rather than a crew in sleep cycles?
3. What causes the Cronus to crash on Oberon? What happens to Grayson?
4. What does the conclusion seem to imply about the nature of an exciting story about interplanetary travel?
In Charles C. Cole’s It Wasn’t Such a Bad Life: Why might the narrator find it difficult to acquire a driver’s license to operate a recreational vehicle in travelling to various campgrounds?
In Jeffrey Greene’s The Tornado Watcher:
1. About how old is Suzanne Morrison? In about what period of history is the story’s time setting?
2. Does Mrs. Morrison have any reason to disbelieve John Sutton’s explanation for his plan to kill her husband?
In Lenny Levine’s The Non-Sequiturus Rex:
1. Does Bobby speak to his father in non-sequiturs, even when mentioning his snare drum?
2. Does anyone have any reason to believe what Bobby says about his drum?
In Gary Clifton’s Max in Combat Mode: How might Max’s physical characteristics be classified in terms of drama or film?
In Michael Lee Johnson’s Wrinkles in Life: What constitutes the measurement of “old”?