Challenge 960

Infield Fly

In J. M. Turner’s Epitaph and Elegy:
1. How might a previous chapter account for Alexander and for the ruined city? What obsesses Sylvia in the abandoned library: anything in particular or reading for its own sake?
2. Povel says, “Gods... what a worthless venture this has been.” Does Sylvia entirely disagree with him?
In James Andrew Selby’s A Chiptune for Rasterman:
1. What is a “chiptune”?
2. If the story is an example of “mixed media” style, what media are represented? How are they combined?
3. German squeezes with effort into an “automated cart.” Is the cart small, or is German obese?
In Nemo West’s Toboso:
1. What fauna and flora have been imported from Earth to the planet Etruria?
2. Why might the planet and its sole colonial settlement have names associated particularly with Italian geography?
3. Why is Chelle puzzled by Triss’s relationships with Sam and Deak? What might have kept Triss and the two men from being the subject of a fountain of gossip?