The Education of Junior Number 12
Madeline Ashby (www.madelineashby.com) is a science fiction writer and foresight consultant living in Toronto. Her debut novel, vN, is out from Angry Robot Books in 2012. Her stories have been published in Nature, FLURB, Tesseracts, Escape Pod, and elsewhere. She has also blogged for BoingBoing, WorldChanging, Tor.com, and io9.com.
“The Education of Junior Number 12” appeared online at the website of angryrobotbooks.com at the end of December 2011, and this is perhaps its first appearance in print. About this story, Ashby says, “Javier is a character who appears in vN. He’s one of my favorite characters, and this is one of his more sombre stories.”
Charlie Jane Anders calls the story, “dark and intense and amazing.”