Well, time to review. [hider=Maybe the moon made it?] Our utterly biased opinion says that most of these stories are far better than our own. The first one is a clear fit for the cheese theme. Pretty funny, if somewhat lacking in logic. Not the bit about the moon being cheese, but the fact that it did not melt during reentry. Then there is that bit with the protagonist's vehement resistance to eating the cheese just evaporating. It feels like it is not sticking to his character. It was too sharp a turn.[/hider] [h3]Green Moon[/h3] Not going to cover our own story here. [hider=The bamboo cutter's daughter] Again, a good story. A nice. Mix of other sources, but it left some things vague. Throughout reading, we were wondering when this was happening and how this world differed from the earth most people know. The logic of that spin in orbit felt off. Why would they need to do that? Was that module in orbit already? If so, why send them up separately? If not, why not build it all without that extra risk? Explaining the nation's better would’ve helped. And for a while we did wonder if the people were even humans or aliens all. Still, a good story.[/hider] [hider=We had a name for it, once] Nice and short. Explains terraforming without using the word. What feels unexplained is the reasons for them not breathing "real" air previously. What also feels missing is how they got what they needed to terraform the moon. The water and soil and so forth. The ending was very nice. A twist that explained many things for the story. Like why they were terraforming in the first place. It also showed why you could not use the word itself. Where did they live while they made the moon habitable? On ships? In isolated structures on the moon? How many survivors were there? How much of society lived on? Still, good story.[/hider] [hider=Moonbeam] Good potential in this one, but the characters could’ve used more depth. They lacked... Life. How did this Diana feel about taking up her mother’s divinity? Did she want it? She seemed more innocent than the typical goddess of the hunt. Would she not have noticed signs of divine heritage before? Perhaps prelediction for hobbies related to her future role? Not as good as the ones above, but still good. Our biased opinion makes it better than our own anyways.[/hider] [hider=Moondoings] This one feels disconnected. There's a series of events that don't feel tied together properly. They're ok, but no more than that. We did not feel engaged by them.[/hider] [h3] Princess of the Moon [/h3] Poems. Not our forte. Sorry. [hider=Uposatha] This one did not make sense to us. No introduction of who she was at the start, nor was it explained later. Why should we care about her? What is the purpose of killing the rabbit? Too many questions unanswered, there are.[/hider] [hider=Selenophobia] This one doesn't feel complete. He (Harry) is clearly conflicted. Both fears astrophysics/sciences/etc and wants to explore them. But she (Diana) is shallow. She isn't alive. What is she like? What brought the two together? How does she think? Why would they stay together if he's phobic of anything related to space? How would they even meet? This would've been a great story if stretched out in length with the above questions answered. Right now things are too short-term. Too many events left with bare bones. With his aptitude for sciences, it felt to us like he would either have done everything to keep his beloved from going to space, or if he wished her freedom of choice, done everything to ensure her safety. It might have had less such unexplained conflicts if the space traveller was his son/daughter, simply as that would mean rebel against rebel or somesuch. [/hider]