A most bodaciously excellent yarn from Friesner, with a very unlikely couple – one an academic, the latter a pole dancer – at the table of the Norse gods.
Looks at bio-medicine, and posits whether medicating against certain human frailties may not be a good thing.
Landis looks as little into the future as is probably possible, with a take on privately-funded spaceflight.
Hamilton closes out an excellent volume on a lighter tone.
A story that really needs more space to do it justice.
Reynolds at his best in identifying a bogglingly long-term problem, and putting in a very human angle on its solution.
Brooke and Brown were regulars in the David Pringle-era of Interzone, and this is a story that could be straight from one of those issues.
A touch of the Lovecraftian Mountains of Madness in the eerie, almost-deserted city through which they roam, as the team gradually dwindles in size.
An excellent collaboration by Klecka and Buckell which looks at the near-future options for a technologically advanced, non-violent incursion force to achieve regime change
The 2010 edition of a high quality small press annual anthology.
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