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Archive for December, 2011

Ken Liu. The Countable. (Asimovs, December 2011)

An effective story, which gets into the head of a young autistic man, balancing the narrative with some very complicated pure mathematics…

Steve Rasnic Tem. Ephemera. (Asimovs, December 2011)

A short, cautionary tale, looking at an all-too-plausible (un/desirable?) future in which the whole wealth of human knowledge is at your fingertips/physical artefacts such as books and magazines are consigned to the dustbin of history.

Interzone #237, Nov-Dec 2011.

Hawkins’ story takes up a lot of real estate in the issue in a story that didn’t engage, but the Tidhar/Lain stories very much did so.

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2011.

Cambias and Gilman provide some strong SF.

Albert E. Cowdrey. How Peter Met Pan. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2011)

Relatively routine horror from a master of the genre, set in the woods against a backdrop of climate change and rebuffed love.

Jim Hawkins. Digital Rites. (Interzone #237, Nov/Dec 2011).

Lengthy, staccato, fast-paced science thriller.

Tim McDaniel. The List. (Asimovs, December 2011)

A bit of festive fun across one and a half pages, with one of my favourite pieces of closing dialogue in some time.

Pamela Sargent. Strawberry Birdies. (Asimovs December 2012)

A story that zips along quickly, and doesn’t really go anywhere different than has been covered quite a lot.

Suzanne Palmer. Surf. (Asimovs, December 2011).

A thriller (up to a point) in deep space, that starts with an Analog-y feel to it. Bari, a junior crewmember on an academic research mission studying some intriguing, migrating space creatures.

James L. Cambias. Object Three. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2011)

An 800-page Alastair Reynolds novel compressed into a couple of dozen (excellent) pages.

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