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.

Aliette de Bodard. A Salvaging of Ghosts. (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #195 March 2016)

It's still online on 'Beneath Ceaseless Skies' here, so go ahead and read this little polished nugget of a story ...
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Paul J. McAuley. Elves of Antarctica. (Drowned Worlds)

Originally in an post-environmental catastrophe anthology, but I read it in Dozois' 'The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection' ...
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Matthew Caxton. Patience Lake. (Asimovs August 2017)

I didn't read this in it's original magazine appearance, but in Dozois' 34th Annual Collection. A story that grabs you ...
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R.R. Merliss. The Stutterer. (The Years Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1956)

Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, some sixty years ago, and leads out Judith Merril's first 'The Year's Greatest Science ...
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Nnedi Okorafor. Binti. (Tor.com)

I read this in Nebula Awards Showcase 2017, rather than it's original online publication on the Tor website. I'm not ...
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