Archive for November, 2011
Karl Bunker. Overtaken. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2011).
A short morality tale, in classic Golden Age style.
Jon Armstrong. Aisle 1047. (Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2011)
A dark take on what shopping and the marketing thereof may become very soon.
Asimovs. October/November 2011.
Stories by : Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kij Johnson, Kit Reed, Eleanor Arnason, Dominica Phetteplace, Jason K. Chapman, Eugene Mirabelli, Jack Skillingstead, Derek Künsken, Nancy Kress. Review underway.
Nancy Kress. A Hundred Hundred Daisies. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)
A short but effective story on the desertification of the USA.
Derek Kunsken. To Live and Die in Gibbontown. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)
Monkey business on a gonzo Planet of the Apes, with a hired assassin failing spectacularly to complete his contract.
Lavie Tidhar. The Last Osama. (Interzone #237, Nov-Dec 2011)
An altogether multi-facted and clever piece of fiction(s).
M. Rickert. The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2011)
A strange and unsettling tale, a sort of bastard offspring of David Lynch and Tim Burton (I know they are both male, which makes that conceit even worse…)
Eleanor Arnason. My Husband Steinn. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)
An ardent admirer pays his respects to a women living in a remote house in Iceland.
Jack Skillingstead. Free Dog. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)
A dog is a man’s best friend, but in this short story a virtual poodle becomes the focus of divorce-settlement unpleasantness, as the dog goes viral.
Eugene Mirabelli. The Pastry Chef, the Nanotechnologist, the Aerobics Instructor, and the Plumber. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)
One of the nicer stories I’ve read for quite some time.
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