The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition (ed Rich Horton, Prime Books 2019)
I’m restricting myself to buying the purely SF anthologies, and so this book won’t be gracing my shelves. I’ve nabbed
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (ed Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Parvus Press 2019)
The 53rd annual edition of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America take on the best short stories written
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 4 (ed Neil Clarke, Nightshade Books 2019)
With 2019 being the first year for four decades without a Gardner Dozois take on the Year’s Best SF, this
Read moreSimone Heller. When We Were Starless. (Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2018)
Heller is an author new to me, but a name I would be looking out for now if I was still in the habit of reading a lot of short SF in it’s original appearance.
Read moreLavie Tidhar. New Atlantis. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2019).
Another masterful piece of writing from Tidhar.
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2019)
In the sad absence of a Dozois’ annual anthology, I’ve been and gone and bought the dead-tree version of Strahan’s
Read moreRobert Bloch. I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1955)
Sitting down at the computer in a brief interlude from a day gardening in the sunshine I did have the option to re-read the story. but..
Read moreIvan Janvier. Thing. (Fantastic Universe, March 1955)
Written some 18 or more years after John W. Campbell’s ‘The Thing’, but with a similar underpinning idea.
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