Archive for February, 2011
Damien Broderick and Barbara Lamar. Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone. (Engineering Infinity).
A shoo-in for a Year’s Best collection next year. I’d tip Dozois and Strahan himself to include this one in their respective volumes.
Steve Rasnic Tem. Visitors. (Asimovs, January 2011).
An elderly couple are on a trip they make every five years – to Phoenix Sanctuary, where people (and pets) are kept ‘suspended’ whilst cures for their ailments are found.
Ken Scholes. Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair. (Tor.com)
An entertaining short about a very strange couple – an underweight ex-clown who has hit the bottle, and a monkey who isn’t really a monkey.
Jo Walton. Escape to Other World with Science Fiction. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction 27th Annual Collection.)
Take 10 or 15 minutes out of your life to read the story (unless you’re feeling in a pretty low mood and don’t want to be taken down further!).
Lavie Tidhar. The Integrity of the Chain. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction 27th Annual Collection).
A neat little story, giving Tidhar’s usual non-westerncentric angle on sf.
John Barnes. Things Undone. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction 27th Annual Collection)
One of the rare stories that I finish feeling emotionally and intellectually enervated, and know that I will read again, and am just simply pleased to have read it.
Alexander Irvine. Seventh Fall. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 27th Annual Collection)
I do like a good post-apocalyptic story, and this is a good post-apocalyptic story.
Karl Bunker. Under the Shouting Sky. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 27th Annual Collection.)
A short but effective piece set on the Saturnian moon of Enceladus
Kathleen Ann Goonan. Creatures with Wings. (Engineering Infinity).
More spirituality in this story than you tend to get in a whole volume of a Year’s Best anthology.
Elizabeth Bear. Dolly. (Asimovs, January 2011).
A beautiful robot, but one with no sense of self, and consequently closer to a sex toy, is found over the body of her owner.
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