Archive for March, 2010
William Preston. Helping Them Take The Old Man Down. (Asimovs March 2010).
A subtle, clever story – does the new world require that even the most heroic of heroes are required to stand up and be counted, even deep into retirement?
Karen Joy Fowler. The Pelican Bar. (Eclipse Three, ed Jonathan Strahan.)
An unsettling story. One to sleep on perhaps. Perchance to dream…
Lavie Tidhar. Funny Pages. (Interzone #225, Nov/Dec 2009).
Tongue-in-cheek superhero fun in Tel Aviv.
Andrew N. Tisbert. Getting Yourself On. (Gud #5, Winter 2009).
A second story in in this issue of greater length than you often get in small press magazine, and also SF rather than contemporary speculative.
Holly Black. Virgin. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 3).
Short urban fantasy in which a young girl living rough on the streets is enraptured by a young man she meets.
Colin Harvey. The Killing Streets. (Interzone #225, Nov/Dec 2009).
A grim read, with some unsympathetic characters, and a mashup vision of a Broken Britain from right-wing tabloids, and of state-oppression from the libertarians.
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[March 23rd 2010] Work on the new Best SF logo is progressing well. Should be online well in time for the 10th Anniversary next month.
Sean Williams. Inevitable. (The New Space Opera 2).
An intriguing setting and setup, from an author I’m not that familiar with.
Garth Nix. Punctuality. (The New Space Opera 2).
Six-pager in which the mystery of the Punctuality Drive is revealed to a potential Empress, who realises that she may however have a more hands-on role to play in the maintenance of the Drive.
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