Archive for August, 2010
Ann Leckie. The Endangered Camp. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010)
A story which asks a lot with regard to suspension of disbelief, and doesn’t really give much back by way of return.
Robert Kelly. The Logic of the World. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010)
Sir Parsifal, noble knighte, happens upon a dragon in a valley.
Mercurio D. Rivera. In the Harsh Glow of its Incandescent Beauty. (Interzone #226 Jan-Feb 2010).
Set in the same world as ‘Longing for Langalana’ from Interzone, which won the readers poll for 2006.
Andy Duncan. The Night Cache. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #4)
A well written lesbian love story with a touch of something that qualifies it for inclusion in a fantasy anthology. Just.
Tyler Keevil. Hibakusha. (Interzone #226 Jan/Feb 2010).
A bleak landscape which is a disturbing one if you are familiar with London.
Nick Wolven. On the Horizon. (Asimovs August 2010)
A dark, intense, near-future psychological thriller
Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn. Report from the Field. (Is Anybody Out There?)
Golden Age sf tropes being trodden, as aliens who are protecting earth from the rest of the universe are about to welcome us to the galactic fold, but upon closer investigation find some of our behaviours particulary worrying, report their concerns.
Yves Maynard. Good News from Antares. (Is Anybody Out There?)
A struggling ‘scientifiction’ author bemoans the loss of his genre, following the finding of the solution to the Fermi Paradox.
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