Archive for May, 2011
Asimovs. April/May 2011.
Bumper double-issue full of big name SF writers. And Nick Mamatas. A very strong double issue.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Becalmed. (Asimovs, April/May 2011)
There’s a xenolinguistic element, but this is part of an overall story about understanding cultures (and failing to understand them), about politics, and war, and a good conclusion to the issue.
Jack Skillingstead. The Flow and Dream. (Asimovs, April/May 2011)
A short but strong, tense psychological piece.
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[20th May 2011] Hoping to get to the British Library’s ‘Out of This World’ SF exhibition tomorrow! [link]
Lightspeed Magazine #12, May 2011
Fiction: “The Harrowers” by Eric Gregory, “Bibi From Jupiter” by Tessa Mellas (Originally published in Story Quarterly 2007), “Eliot Wrote” by Nancy Kress, “Scales” by Alastair Reynolds (Originally published in The Guardian 2009).
Esther M. Friesner. The One That Got Away. (Asimovs, April/May 2011).
Fans of classic horror will go ape over this mashup. Great stuff.
Tom Purdom. A response from EST17. (Asimovs, April/May 2011).
A story with potential, but which doesn’t really deliver.
Christopher Barzak. Smoke City. (Asimovs April/May 2011).
Dark satanic mills in this subterranean landscape, where the workers are repressed, and where child labour is the norm.
Rudy Rucker. The Fnoor Hen. (Asimovs, April/May 2011)
Entertaining techno-yarn, where things get very funky chicken.
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