Sadie Bruce. Little Girls in Bone Museums. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)
Imagine the old Chinese custom of foot binding, taken to the nth degree.
Interzone #257, March-April 2015
Stories by Alastair Reynolds, Fazslishah Johanabas, Rich Larson, Tendai Huchu, and Aliya Whiteley. Reynolds the pick of the issue.
Tananarive Due. Carriers. (The End Has Come, 2015)
Due closes her trilogy of stories about Nayima some forty years on since the last installment
Aliya Whiteley. Blossoms Falling Down. (Interzone #257, Mar/Apr 2015)
Set on board a generation starship, with each deck dedicated to a country from the Earth left behind, all travellers looking forward to the future and the chance to start again.
Annie Bellet. Goodnight Earth. (The End Has Come, 2015)
A teaser of a story, with enough in the setting for a novel or two, or at least a series of stories.
Nik Constantine. Last Transaction. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2015)
A first published story by Constantine, who has a tech background, and he sticks with what he knows to get this story right.
Bao Shu. What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2015)
Clever, clever, clever. Hugely entertaining. And on the Best SF Short Story Award 2015 shortlist.
Rhett C. Bruno. This Long Vigil. (Perihelion Science Fiction, June 2015)
I get a reasonable stream of requests from authors/publishers asking me to review their writing. Well, most of it is actually unreasonable..
Brian Dolton. This Is the Way the Universe Ends : With a Bang. (Fantasy and Science Fiction March/April 2015)
As the title suggests, a story set very, very far in the future, one which engages the reader throughout.
Leife Shallcross. Wandering Star. (The End Has Come)
Excellent story from an author new to me.
Seanan McGuire. Resistance. (The End Has Come)
One of the most memorable of the continuing stories in this trilogy. McGuire created a complex, rounded main protagonist, and OCD lesbian biochemist, and a quite different apocalypse
Jay O’Connell. Things Worth Knowing. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2015)
Another dark, near-future story form O’Connell.