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Archive for August, 2011

Zachary Jernigan. Pairs. (Asimovs, August 2011).

A first appearance in Asimovs for Jernigan, and it’s a good one.

Cory Doctorow. The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 5).

Doctorow has fun (as does the reader) in a story highlighting a lot of the issues he blogs about on boingboing, and being addressed by EFF.

Ellen Kushner. The Man With the Knives. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5)

Nicely told story of a grief-stricken man rescued from madness, but there’s no fantasy element – unless being set in a standard rural fantasy/medieval setting makes it a fantasy story.

Interzone #235 Jul/Aug 2011

Stories by Matthew Cook, Mercurio D. Rivera, Jon Wallace, Gareth L. Powell, Al Robertson.

Robert Reed. Swingers. (Tor.com, August 2011).

New on Tor.com in August 2011 (link only)

Al Robertson. Of Dawn. (Interzone #235, Jul-Aug 2011)

A lot of emotional intensity, and great use of music and poetry as well.

Gareth L. Powell. Eleven Minutes. (Interzone, #235, Jul-Aug 2011)

Quite reminiscent of a series of stories by Stephen Baxter a while, and a number of other stories that came out around the same time, as the SF community looked back in anger/sadness at where humanity’s exploration of space was going/no longer going.

Theodora Goss. Fair Ladies. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5.)

Fantasy set in the inter-war years in Europe, in which a woman of specific talents is employed by a Duke for his errant son.

Robert Reed. Alone. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5.)

Reed at his best – given the time to paint an epic story against a backdrop of immense time and space.

Jon Wallace. The Walrus and the Icebreaker. (Interzone #235, Jul-Aug 2011)

Tense, near-future thriller set in the Arctic.

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