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Archive for November, 2011

Esther M. Friesner. Rutger and Baby Do Jotenheim. (F&SF Sept/Oct 2011).

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.

Elizabeth Bear. Gods of The Forge. (trsf : the Best New Science Fiction)

Looks at bio-medicine, and posits whether medicating against certain human frailties may not be a good thing.

Geoffrey A. Landis. Private Space. (trsf: the Best New Science Fiction)

Landis looks as little into the future as is probably possible, with a take on privately-funded spaceflight.

Peter F. Hamilton. The Return of the Mutant Worms. (Solaris Rising)

Hamilton closes out an excellent volume on a lighter tone.

Gwyneth Jones. The Flame is Roses, The Smoke Is Briars. (trsf: The Best New Science Fiction)

A story that really needs more space to do it justice.

Alastair Reynolds. For the Ages. (Solaris Rising)

Reynolds at his best in identifying a bogglingly long-term problem, and putting in a very human angle on its solution.

Keith Brooke and Eric Brown. Eternity’s Children. (Solaris Rising)

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.

Jaine Fenn. Dreaming Towers, Silent Mansions. (Solaris Rising)

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.

David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell. A Militant Peace. (Clarkesworld Magazine #62, November 2011).

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

Triangulation : End of the Rainbow. (PARSEC Ink, 2010).

The 2010 edition of a high quality small press annual anthology.

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