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Archive for May, 2010

Justina Robson. Cracklegrackle. (New Space Opera 2)

Excellent exploration of confusion, alienation, and spiralling downwards into mental distress.

Analog. April 2010.

Stories by : John. G. Hemry, Holly Hight & Richard A. Lovett, Brenda Cooper, Carl Frederick, Stephen L. Burns, Jerry Oltion, S.L. Nickerson

Eugene Fischer. Adrift. (Asimovs Apr/May 2010)

A hi-tech cargo transport system is the sfnal element of this so-so story.

Molly Gloss. Unforeseen. (Asimovs April/May 2010)

Insurance claims, and human motivations and emotions are effectively and affectingly addressed.

Tad Williams. The Tenth Muse. (The New Space Opera 2).

A genetically-modified prepubescent 40-year old cabin boy on the Starskhp Lakshmi is an unwitting key to resolving a very alien threat.

Analog. January/February 2010

Well-trodden Western tropes moved into space, more Brittney and Katerina Savitskaya, and a Retrieval Artist story from Rusch.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The Possession of Paavo Deshin. (Analog Jan/Feb 2010)

A Retrieval Artist story.

Peter S. Beagle. Sleight of Hand. (Eclipse 3).

Heart-rending and believable.

Peter S. Beagle. King Pelles the Sure. (Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009)

S’okay, but little beyond the ‘be careful what you wish for’ trope.

Elizabeth Moon. Chameleons. (New Space Opera 2).

A thriller set on board a spaceport – one of the weaker stories in the volume. Fruit cobbler anyone?

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