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Harry Turtledove. Lee at the Alamo. (Tor.com, September 2011)

Online Alternate History (link only).

Robert Reed. Swingers. (Tor.com, August 2011).

New on Tor.com in August 2011 (link only)

Ken MacLeod. Earth Hour. (Tor.com, June 2011)

A tight near-future thriller, set in Australia, and with a strong tech/political background

Ken Scholes. Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair. (Tor.com)

An entertaining short about a very strange couple – an underweight ex-clown who has hit the bottle, and a monkey who isn’t really a monkey.

Jay Lake and Ken Scholes. The Starship Mechanic. (Tor.com, January 2010)

Short in the reading, likely to be long in the memory.

Charlie Jane Anders. The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model. (Tor.com, August 2010)

An entertaining, light piece with a nod to Golden Age SF.

Rachel Swirsky. Eros, Philia, Agape. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Year Volume Four)

More interpersonal and interspecies dynamics than you get in most sf novels

Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn. Zeppelin City. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 4)

If you like playing Bioshock, you’ll lurve this entertaining yarn.

Jay Lake. A Water Matter. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009)

As Lake invariably does he puts effort into creating a interesting background to his story, and its visceral in terms of the action and denouement.

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