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Archive for May, 2011

William Preston. Clockworks. (Asimovs, April/May 2011).

A thoughtful consideration of ethics and moral judgments about crime and ciminality and responsibility for actions. Marvellous.

Nick Mamatas. North Shore Friday. (Asimovs, April/May 2011)

Intriguing first story from Mamatas to pass my eyes.

Mike Resnick. The Homecoming. (Asimovs, April/May 2011)

A consecutive short and emotionally intense story in the issue looking at the impact on humans of loss through an sfnal lens.

Michael Swanwick. An Empty House with Many Doors. (Asimovs, April/May 2011)

A short but exquisite love story, as a man deals (or not) with heartbreaking loss, to find that there are other universes where things are quite different.

Francis Marion Soty. The Second Kalandar’s Tale. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2011)

A tale of djinns, sorcery, enchantment, love.

James Patrick Kelly. Happy Ending 2.0. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2011)

Kelly in good form in a short about a couple trying to recapture their youthful love for each other by returning to the cottage in the country where it all started.

Interzone #233, March-April 2011

Stories by Nina Allan, Chris Butler, Ray Cluley, Tim Lees; all good ones.

Tim Lees. Crosstown Traffic. (Interzone #233, March-April 2011)

A well observed story, with a likeably incompetent protagonist, in the same milieu as Lees’ ‘The Corner of the Circle’ from Interzone #218.

Ray Cluley. Tethered to the Old and Dying. (Interzone #233, March-April 2011)

Claustrophobic tension on an Earth struggling through a nuclear winter.

Walter C. DeBill, Jr., Richard Gavin, Robert M. Price, W.H. Pugmire, Jeffrey Thomas, and Don Webb. Night Gauntlet. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2011)

Short dose of campus-based academic eldritch horrors, with the dark horrors complemented by some science (“Dr. Heyschius had been at work on a special torsion field theory that took Anatoly Akimov’s work and replaced his solutions to Maxwell equations with Type IIB string theory while maintaining the “alternate” interpretations of Einstein-Cartan theory”), written round-robin.

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