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Archive for May, 2010

Kit Reed. Monkey Do. (Asimovs June 2010)

A struggling author finds his muse, after a fashion. The last sentence elevates the story to a higher level.

Jacques Barcia. The Greenman Watches the Black Bar Go Up, Up, Up. (Shine)

Set in Brazil in a world in which carbon emissions are the currency.

Benjamin Crowell. Petopia. (Asimovs June 2010).

A cuddly toy with an AI chip finds itself a long way from home.

Eric Gregory. The Earth of Yunhe. (Shine).

How can the old ways be stopped from being a barrier to the opportunities the new ways offer?

Allen M. Steele. The Emperor of Mars. (Asimovs June 2010).

Steele revisits a theme from a previous story of his, although with an sfnal rather than a fantasy element.

home page rejig

[May 29th 2010] Couple of new areas on the home page, the better to present recent reviews and forthcoming ones.

The New Space Opera 2. (ed Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos 2009).

A big book, with a huge amount of top quality SF.

John C. Wright. The Far End of History. (New Space Opera 2).

To be read slowly, and savoured.

iPad

[May 27th 2010] omg iPad arrived a day earlier than expected

Mike Resnick. Catastrophe Baker and A Canticle for Leibowitz. (The New Space Opera 2).

Catastrophe Baker meets his match with Voluptia von Climax, in a tongue in cheek homage to bygone space opera.

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