Archive for December, 2010
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Volume Four. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2010)
An excellent collection, with that part of the volume covering fantasy stories not leaving me too far adrift
Nir Yaniv. A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010)
An example of good semi-prozine standard, but not, for my money, one for a Year’s Best.
Alexandra Duncan. Swamp City Lament. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2010)
An interesting setting, part feudal-fantasy, part SF.
Paul McAuley. Crimes and Glory. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010)
Excellent hard SF from McAuley, in a narrative that gradually reveals more as it progresses
John Kessel. The Closet. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2010)
A short piece written as part of a festschrift to Ursula K. Le Guin, which touches on one of the themes in her writing.
Ellen Klages. Echoes of Aurora. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four)
Exquisite love story set over a summer of love, and an autumn of loss.
Michael Alexander. Ware of the Worlds. (F&SF Nov/Dec 2010)
Alien technology arrives on Earth, enabling duplication of whatever what is desired.
Alan Dean Foster. Free Elections : a Mad Amos Malone Story. (F&SF Nov/Dec 2010)
Seems that Mad Amos graced the pages of F&SF during the 1980s and 1990s, and here the ‘mountainous mountain man’ returns, dealing with an awkward customer who has cut off the water supply to a town in the remote Wild West.
Hannu Rajaniemi. Elegy for a Young Elk. (Subterranean, Spring 2010).
Well written, lyrical and elegaic in its own right.
Robert Reed. Cull. (Clarkesworld Magazine #48, September 2010).
Claustrophobic tension in an enclosed domed station, whose inhabitants are kept chemically happy by an AI doctor in human form.
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