From a forthcoming novel, ‘Defenders’, which is already optioned by Warner Brothers. It’s a small sequence with an interesting backdrop – people on Earth struggling against an alien invasion.
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.
Fran Wilde. Like a Wasp to the Tongue. (Asimovs April/May 2014)
Corporate skullduggery in a remote vespidary.
William Preston. Each in His Prison, Thinking of the Key. (Asimovs April/May 2014)
Yet more about The Old Man, and we find out more about him, and a big finale is set up.
Leo Vladimirsky. Collar. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2014)
Two men grease themselves up, but then it’s left to us to imagine what happens next…
Greg Kurzawa. Predvestniki. (Interzone #250 Jan-Feb 2014)
Whilst in Moscow, a visitor finds the city, and some of its people, behaving strangely, and ditto his wife…
Oliver Buckram. The Museum of Error. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2014)
Buckram closes off the issue with some gentle humour with some neat touches, and avoids trying too hard to be too clever and funny.
Albert E. Cowdrey. Out of the Deep. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2014)
Another classy tale of ne’er-do-wells in the deep south, and some powerful magic.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Snapshots. (Analog May 2014)
Characterisation and family relationship are handled well, which is as well as otherwise it’s a fairly weak story.