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Archive for August, 2011

Michael Swanwick. For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone.. (Asimovs, August 2001.

Clever story of alien oppression and response to it, cunningly done by setting the story in Ireland.

Tad Williams. And Ministers of Grace. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 28th Annual Collection).

A story that would have had me gripping the arms of my chair, had I not needed my hands to hold the book.

Lavie Tidhar. The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 28th Annual Collection.)

A little morsel, perhaps an intra-course palate cleanser, between the meatier fayre betwixt it sits.

Joe Abercrombie. The Fool Jobs. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5.)

A band of warriors on a quest. Except that the band of warriors is in fact a band of ne-er-do-wells who rub each other up the wrong way, use bad language, and generally just no nobility on offer.

Damien Broderick. Under the Moons of Venus. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 5)

A complex story, as you’d expected (and demand) from Broderick.

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue #59, August 2011

Stories by Yoon Ha Lee and Chen Qiufan

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