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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.

This category contains 691 posts

Jacob A. Boyd. Bound in Place. (Interzone #239, Mar/Apr 2012)

A ghost story.

Steven Utley. The Tortoise Grows Elate. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2012)

The first in Utley’s ‘Silurian Tales’ sequence for four years, a sequence he has had on the simmer since 1993.

Albert E. Cowdrey. Greed. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2012)

More ne’er-do-wells from the deep south pop out from Cowdrey’s active/fetid imagination, the love of money once more being the root of all evil.

Robert Reed. One Year of Fame. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2012)

The works of an author, long relegated to his past, find a new, robotic audience.

Michael Blumlein. Twenty-Two and You from The Doctor Diaries. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2012)

Issues around genetic profiling/fixing treatments are addressed.

Suzanne Palmer. Tangerine, Nectarine, Clementine, Apocalypse. (Interzone #239, Mar-Apr 2012)

Excellent story from Palmer – the tension ramps up until the stakes get very high.

Alastair Reynolds. The Water Thief. (Arc 1.1)

Against a background of water shortages and climate change, a single mother has to face a challenge.

Robert Reed. Murder Born. (Asimovs February 2012)

A complex story which doesn’t go for an obvious happy ending, and it’s one of Reed’s best for some time.

Lavie Tidhar. Love is a Parasite Meme. (Apex Magazine #35, April 2012)

Short, introspective and reflective story by Tidhar, the protagonist sharing some of the author’s background.

John Kessel. Iteration. (Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 5)

A good example of pitching a story just right.

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