Archive for September, 2011

Analog. November 2011.

Fiction by Adam-Troy Castro, Paul Levinson, Alec Nevala-Lee, Jack McDevitt, Don D’Ammassa, Jerry Oltion, Bill Johnson. (Content listing only)

Rob Chilson. Less Stately Mansions. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2011)

Technological and farming developments that are a nice backdrop to the human dilemma of thes tory.

Peter S. Beagle. The Way It Works Out and All. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2011)

Nice homage to Avram Davidson, SF writer and editor of F&SF back in the early 1960s

Peter David. Bronsky’s Dates with Death. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2011).

David evidently has a humongous number of novels to his name, including a lot of movie and TV novels, and his storycraft shows in the ease with which this story sucks you in.

Bull Spec #5 Spring 2011

Issue 5 of the attractive semiprozine.

Nebula Awards Showcase 2011. (ed Kevin J. Anderson, Tor, 2011).

A great book – full of the fiction which the SFWA honoured

Asimovs. September 2011.

Stories by Allen M. Steele, Erick Melton, Alan Wall, Neal Barrett. Jr, Carol Emshwiller, Ian Creasey, R. Neube, Robert Reed. A bit of a curate’s egg of an issue, with some strong stories, some average, and a couple weaker. Kindle : amazon.com | .co.uk

Alan Wall. Burning Bibles. (Asimovs, September 2011).

An SF mystery, the mystery being why the story isn’t in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

Robert Reed. Stalker. (Asimovs, September 2011).

A tight, unsettling thriller

Joe Haldeman. Sleeping Dogs. (Year’s Best SF 16).

Haldeman’s ‘Forever War’ was a classic series of stories brought together for a novel, and here he looks at some of the (sadly all too familiar) ethics behind conflict.

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