There’s something Ballardian about the imagery of engines sitting under the sun on a remote desert, but it’s one of those stories I sometimes feel that I’m missing something without which I’m not really getting what the story is really about.
Archive | Individual Stories
The Individual Stories category has two types of content : 1 – the stories I read in magazines and anthologies and review straight away, rather than waiting to complete the magazine or anthology and reviewing it all in one go. I started doing this in 2010; 2 – stories published as standalone ‘chapbooks’, or published online, or otherwise as a singleton. There are a couple of dozen stories of this nature, reviewing during the 2000s, which are available here.
Tom Greene. Monoculture. (Interzone #255 Nov/Dec 2014)
Intriguing multi-perspective story, in a post-flu epidemic ravaged society.
Jennifer Dornan-Fish. Mind the Gap. (Interzone #255, Nov-Dec 2014)
A story from an author new to me, and at three pages in length, not too much by way of an introduction!
Aliette de Bodard. Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight. (Clarkesworld #100, January 2015)
A story that does indeed ‘hit the spot’ nicely, with the accustomed oriental mannerisms, familial devotions and structures that clearly mark it out as a Xuya story.
David D. Levine. Damage. (Tor.com January 2015)
The first story of 2015 that I’m flagging as a contender for the Best SF Short Story Award 2015.
Ray Vukcevich. The Way We Are. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2014)
Finding the right words to open up a woman’s heart has never been easy for men, but doh! when you have to remember a freaking password!!
Robert Reed. Will He? (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2014)
A thoroughly unpleasant protagonist, without any redeeming features who has the wherewithal to fix the world’s problems (as he sees them) . Will he, or won’t he??
Adam Roberts. Thing and Sick. (Solaris Rising 3)
In a remote Antartic research station, the Fermi Paradox is solved, which has a big impact on the two men in the cabin..