Archive for June, 2011
Lightspeed Magazine #13, June 2011.
Fiction: “Snapshots I Brought Back from the Black Hole” by K.C. Ball, “Frost Painting” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (classic reprint), “Transcript of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free A.I. Crash Advisor” by Grady Hendrix, “Recording Angel” by Ian McDonald (classic reprint).
Suzanne Palmer. The Ceiling is Sky. (Interzone #234, May-June 2011).
A claustrophobic future, withshort-term contract engineers living in cramped subterranean quarters.
Lavie Tidhar. In the Season of the Mango Rains. (Interzone #234, May-June 2011)
Reflective two-pager, in which the protagonist looks back on his lost love, who has turned her back on life on Earth, and on him, for a future that is much less secure, much less concrete, and much less human.
John Ingold. Sleepers. (Interzone #234, May-June 2011).
A look at faith and belief, through the impact of the ill-fated first (and only) extraterrestrial human colony.
The Year’s Best Science Fiction. 28th Annual Collection. (ed Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Press, 2011).
Over 300,000 words of fiction as ever, although the volume is slimmer than usual…
Robert Reed. Stock Photos. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2011).
Suburban lawn-mowing is interrupted by a nice young couple wanting to take some photographs.
Chet Williamson. The Final Verse. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2011).
There ain’t no mention of duelling banjos, but they were playing in my head whilst reading the story. Excellent.
Asimovs. June 2011.
Stories by Mary Robinette Kowal, Ian R. MacLeod, Carol Emshwiller, Alan DeNiro, Felicity Shoulders, Colin P. Davies, with MacLeod, Shoulders and DeNiro the pick of the bunch.
Lauren Beukes. Unaccounted. (Further Conflicts).
Science Fiction gives you the opportunity to explore the limits of humanity, and what it is to be human in the face of the alien.
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