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Archive for September, 2010

Yoon Ha Lee. Flower, Mercy, Needle Chain. (Lightspeed Magazine #4, September 2010).

A clever short story, an appetiser, that leaves you wanting more.

Rachel Swirsky. Again and again and again. (Interzone #226, Jan/Feb 2010)

Clever little piece looking at the consequences of each generation taking things just one step further than the previous one.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The Dark Man. (Is Anybody Out There?)

The Spanish Steps in Rome are the location for an intriguing story.

John Sladek. The Real Martian Chronicles. (F&SF May/June 2010)

Sardonic wit in the form of a week’s mostly mundane Martian diary entries from a recent colonist.

Elizabeth Bourne. A History of Cadmium. (F&SF May/June 2010)

A young artist finds out about her now late mother and herself, and the role of painting, and pigments, in their story.

Jay Lake. Human Error. (Interzone #226, Jan/Feb 2010)

Gritty, sweaty, emotional drama, with the focus on the human relationships rather than the science or the technology, as is Lake’s trademark.

Neal Asher. The Cuisinart Effect. (Conflicts.)

Excruciatingly poorly written military SF.

Fred Chappell. Thief of Shadows. (F&SF May/June 2010)

By way, I believe, of a prequel to previous ‘Shadow’ stories by Chappell featuring light-fingered Falco.

Michael Libling. Why that Crazy Old Lady goes up the Mountain. (F&SF May/June 2010)

An opening story with an audacious conceit bang slap in the middle of it, one that is unsettling and lodges itself in the mind.

David Langford. Graffiti in the Library of Babel. (Is Anybody Out There?)

I was pleased to see David Langford in the volume – he doesn’t write much, but what he does write is invariably worth reading, as is the case here.

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