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Archive for July, 2010

Aliette de Bodard. The Jaguar House, in Shadow. (Asimov’s, July 2010)

Well constructed and well handled story in the author’s ‘Xuya’ sequence.

D.T. Mitenko. Eddie’s Ants. (Asimov’s July 2010).

Light and slight humour in which a human is pleased to find that revenge on the extra-terrestrial who has pinched his girl is only too happy to put him/itself forward as a target for destruction.

Jason Andrews. Scheherazade Cast in Starlight. (Shine).

A very short story which looks at how web 2.0 technologies could bring about the downfall of progressive regimes, with a 1001 blogs helping to turn the evil tide.

Gord Sellar. Sarging Rasmussen : a Report (by Organic). (Shine).

A clever look at how psychology, NLP and the like could be used for political gain.

Charlie Anders. Suicide Drive. (Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009)

An interesting look at the impact on individuals of big events, and the public persona/family life of key individuals.

Life on Mars

[July 8th 2010] Mmm, liking the cover of Jonathan Strahan’s anthology ‘Life on Mars’, to be published next year.

The Secret History of Science Fiction. (James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel eds, Tachyon 2009)

A collection with a difference.

Ann Leckie. The God of Au. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009)

Fantasy in which the capricious whims of gods, and the impact on those humans who have no option but to worship, is explored, as a very minor God is able to trick a human into giving it power of a group of islands.

Jeffrey Ford. Daltharee. (Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009)

A sort of Horton Hears a Who for smart grownups. Not really, but tenuous enought for a weak pun on the editor’s name.

Non-Zero Probabilities. N.K. Jemisin. (Clarkesworld Magazine #36, September 2009.)

A neat story from an author new to me.

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