Archive for December, 2010
Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear. Mongoose. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 4)
Politics and backstory to flesh out the action in a story that lives up to its predecessor.
Jerry Oltion. Planning Ahead. (F&SF Nov/Dec 2010)
A gentle, amusing story warning of the problems of proper prophylactic planning.
Interzone #230, Sep-Oct 2010.
Stories by Tim Lees, Aliette de Bodard, Lavie Tidhar, Patrick Samphire, Nina Allan, but none of them outstanding.
Nina Allan. The Upstairs Window. (Interzone #230, Sep-Oct 2010)
Captures the feeling of constraint and repression and danger, and the streets of central London, but ‘Children of Men’ it ain’t.
Kate Wilhelm. Bloodletting. (The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF)
Understated throughout, and classy.
Jay Lake and Ken Scholes. The Starship Mechanic. (Tor.com, January 2010)
Short in the reading, likely to be long in the memory.
Charlie Jane Anders. The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model. (Tor.com, August 2010)
An entertaining, light piece with a nod to Golden Age SF.
Richard Bowes. Venues. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2010).
Bowes’ series of autobiographical (up to a point!) stories in F&SF have been a treat for some time now.
Patrick Samphire. Camelot. (Interzone #230, Sep/Oct 2010)
Little is explained, but to compensate, the short relationship between the two protagonists is a vivid physical one.
Robert Reed. Dead Man’s Run. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2010)
A very lengthy look at running, but with an sfnal element.
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