Archive for April, 2011
Ian Creasey. “I Was Nearly Your Mother”. (Asimovs, March 2011).
After Neal Barrett Jr’s ‘Where’, with a very strange setting, Creasey provides a rather more prosaic setting of Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire.
Interzone #232, Jan-Feb 2011.
Stories by Douglas Lain, Michael R. Fletcher, Sarah L. Edwards, Sue Burke, James Bloomer, with Lain and Fletcher the pick of the bunch.
James Bloomer. Flock, Shoal, Herd. (Interzone #232, Jan-Feb 2011).
Winner of The James White Award short story competition for non professional writers.
Sue Burke. Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. (Interzone #232, Jan-Feb 2011).
A story which I found a bit of a struggle.
Sarah L. Edwards. By Plucking Her Petals. (Interzone #232, Jan-Feb 2011).
A society where beauty can be bought and sold, skimmed and applied.
Michael R. Fletcher. Intellectual Property. (Interzone #232, Jan/Feb 2011)
Fletcher provides a clever multi-perspective story of espionage, and double-crossing.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2011
Stories by Pat MacEwen, Kate Wilhelm, Albert E. Cowdrey, Matthew Corradi, Rick Norwood, Chris Lawson, James Stoddard, Jim Young, Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg, Richard A. Lupoff, Alan Dean Foster.
Matthew Corradi. The Ghilling Blade. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2011).
Fantasy novellete following Selestriian Dah’nok’s loss of the titular blade, and his involvement with wraiths, the water-witch of Sultantis, and the Obixx, which he reaches via Boroxis on the path to Erastiss, before he finds the Dinisistrii solution.
Neal Barrett Jr. Where. (Asimovs, March 2011).
A neat, original little story from Barrett, very much the type of story he writes, and which, sadly, so few others appear to attempt.
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[7th April 2011) mmm, just pre-ordered my copy of Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction, 28th Annual Collection. amazon.com | amazon.co.uk
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