Archive for December, 2011
Ken Liu. The Countable. (Asimovs, December 2011)
An effective story, which gets into the head of a young autistic man, balancing the narrative with some very complicated pure mathematics…
Steve Rasnic Tem. Ephemera. (Asimovs, December 2011)
A short, cautionary tale, looking at an all-too-plausible (un/desirable?) future in which the whole wealth of human knowledge is at your fingertips/physical artefacts such as books and magazines are consigned to the dustbin of history.
Interzone #237, Nov-Dec 2011.
Hawkins’ story takes up a lot of real estate in the issue in a story that didn’t engage, but the Tidhar/Lain stories very much did so.
Interzone #238 Jan-Feb 2012
‘Substantial’ new stories by Ray Cluley, Carole Johnstone, E.J. Swift, and Tyler Keevil. Cover illustration by Ben Baldwin. Reviews to follow.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2011.
Cambias and Gilman provide some strong SF.
Albert E. Cowdrey. How Peter Met Pan. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2011)
Relatively routine horror from a master of the genre, set in the woods against a backdrop of climate change and rebuffed love.
Jim Hawkins. Digital Rites. (Interzone #237, Nov/Dec 2011).
Lengthy, staccato, fast-paced science thriller.
Tim McDaniel. The List. (Asimovs, December 2011)
A bit of festive fun across one and a half pages, with one of my favourite pieces of closing dialogue in some time.
Pamela Sargent. Strawberry Birdies. (Asimovs December 2012)
A story that zips along quickly, and doesn’t really go anywhere different than has been covered quite a lot.
Suzanne Palmer. Surf. (Asimovs, December 2011).
A thriller (up to a point) in deep space, that starts with an Analog-y feel to it. Bari, a junior crewmember on an academic research mission studying some intriguing, migrating space creatures.
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