Archive for May, 2010
Kit Reed. Monkey Do. (Asimovs June 2010)
A struggling author finds his muse, after a fashion. The last sentence elevates the story to a higher level.
Jacques Barcia. The Greenman Watches the Black Bar Go Up, Up, Up. (Shine)
Set in Brazil in a world in which carbon emissions are the currency.
Benjamin Crowell. Petopia. (Asimovs June 2010).
A cuddly toy with an AI chip finds itself a long way from home.
Eric Gregory. The Earth of Yunhe. (Shine).
How can the old ways be stopped from being a barrier to the opportunities the new ways offer?
Allen M. Steele. The Emperor of Mars. (Asimovs June 2010).
Steele revisits a theme from a previous story of his, although with an sfnal rather than a fantasy element.
home page rejig
[May 29th 2010] Couple of new areas on the home page, the better to present recent reviews and forthcoming ones.
The New Space Opera 2. (ed Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos 2009).
A big book, with a huge amount of top quality SF.
Mike Resnick. Catastrophe Baker and A Canticle for Leibowitz. (The New Space Opera 2).
Catastrophe Baker meets his match with Voluptia von Climax, in a tongue in cheek homage to bygone space opera.
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