"Hot Times in Magma City"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novella
Year: 1995
ID: 460
Publication history:
- 1995: Asimov's Mid-December 1995, Magazine
- 1996: Omni Online, Omni Online
- 1996: Year's Best Science Fiction, Harper & Row Mass market paperback
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
Comments:
A near-future story about an LA plagued by small volcanoes and lava floes. The residents of a halfway house are recruited to help out, but they all have their own problems, of course. Good story, well written, if not earth-shaking (excuse the pun).