Alex Irvine. Number Nine Moon. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)
The theme of the story is humanity pulling in on itself, a turtle withdrawing it’s head into it’s shell (Irvine’s imagery), and it’s a good read.
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Alex Irvine
Alex Irvine. For All of Us Down Here. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2014)
Nice take on the Singularity, from the perspective of teen whose parents ‘Singled’ when he was a toddler.
Read moreAlex Irvine. Watching the Cow. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2013)
Chris Piccinetti provides a wonderfully literal cover image to go with this story title. Fortunately the story doesn’t feature beachball-sized floating eyeballs staring at an unbothered bovine.
Read moreAlex Irvine. Remotest Mansions of the Blood. (F&SF May/June 2010).
The difference between what is real, and what is dream, and who is doing the dreaming, and what it all means, becomes very, very blurred.
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Short piece to start the Fermi Paradox themed collection, as we look inside one man’s mind, courtesy of his psychiatrist, at the relationship between intergalactic and interpersonal loneliness.
Read moreThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2009
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction finishes 2009 with an issue of their now standard bi-monthly size, but dated
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Sean McMullen. The Twilight Year. A historical tale with the merest whiff of the fantastical. England in the mid-sixth century
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Matthew Hughes. Sweet Trap. Further adventures of Hengis Hapthorne, in a story previously in the limited edition of the first
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