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Archive for November, 2011

Karl Bunker. Overtaken. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2011).

A short morality tale, in classic Golden Age style.

Jon Armstrong. Aisle 1047. (Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2011)

A dark take on what shopping and the marketing thereof may become very soon.

Asimovs. October/November 2011.

An excellent issue, Chapman, Mirabelli and Johnson the pick of a fine crop.

Nancy Kress. A Hundred Hundred Daisies. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)

A short but effective story on the desertification of the USA.

Derek Kunsken. To Live and Die in Gibbontown. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)

Monkey business on a gonzo Planet of the Apes, with a hired assassin failing spectacularly to complete his contract.

Lavie Tidhar. The Last Osama. (Interzone #237, Nov-Dec 2011)

An altogether multi-facted and clever piece of fiction(s).

M. Rickert. The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2011)

A strange and unsettling tale, a sort of bastard offspring of David Lynch and Tim Burton (I know they are both male, which makes that conceit even worse…)

Eleanor Arnason. My Husband Steinn. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)

An ardent admirer pays his respects to a women living in a remote house in Iceland.

Jack Skillingstead. Free Dog. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)

A dog is a man’s best friend, but in this short story a virtual poodle becomes the focus of divorce-settlement unpleasantness, as the dog goes viral.

Eugene Mirabelli. The Pastry Chef, the Nanotechnologist, the Aerobics Instructor, and the Plumber. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)

One of the nicer stories I’ve read for quite some time.

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