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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreNice take on the Singularity, from the perspective of teen whose parents ‘Singled’ when he was a toddler.
Read moreChris 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 moreThe difference between what is real, and what is dream, and who is doing the dreaming, and what it all means, becomes very, very blurred.
Read moreShort 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 finishes 2009 with an issue of their now standard bi-monthly size, but dated
Read moreSean McMullen. The Twilight Year. A historical tale with the merest whiff of the fantastical. England in the mid-sixth century
Read moreMatthew Hughes. Sweet Trap. Further adventures of Hengis Hapthorne, in a story previously in the limited edition of the first
Read moreAlex Irvine. Shambhala. The story was inspired by the illustration by Mark Evans which graces the cover, and is, like
Read moreSteven Popkes. The Great Caruso. A long-term smoker sources some dubious cigarettes, and finds that her lungs have been subtly
Read moreAlex Irvine. The Lorelei. A nice piece of writing about the fin-de-siecle New York art scene, in which an aspiring
Read moreMark W. Tiedemann. Rain from Another Country. Even after her death, Ann Myref is trying to seek closure on her
Read moreMatthew Hughes. Mastermindless. The protagonist realises with a start that his facial features and his intellectual capacity are suddenly less
Read moreBret Bertholf. Alfred Bester Is Alive and Well and Living in Winterset, Iowa. A ‘doozy’ according to the editorial intro,
Read moreBuy a copy from Amazon. M. Shayne Bell. Anomalous Structures of My Dreams. When the protagonist finds himself in a
Read morePaul Di Filippo. The Short Ashy Afterlife of Hiram P. Dottle. The bookish Dottle finds his path from quiet middle
Read moreYesterday’s Tomorrows. Kate Wilhelm. Not a Kate Wilhelm Special Issue as it says on the cover, but a Special Kate
Read moreHave Not Have. Geoff Ryman. Classy stuff. The societal impact of technology is something that Ryman has written on before
Read moreAlex Irvine. Shepherded by Galatea. A few pages in, with a lot more information about the chemistry in the upper
Read moreStories by : Ted Chiang, Peter S. Beagle, Charles Stross, Greg Egan, Daryl Gregory, Jeffrey Ford, Holly Black, Ted Kosmatka, Alex Irvine, Daniel Abraham, Nancy Kress, Bruce Sterling, Theodore Goss, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Baxter, Ken Macleod, Susan Palwick, Michael Swanwick, M. Rickert, Tony Daniel, Elizabeth Hand, Chris Roberson, Elizabeth Bear, Kelly Link.
Read moreOverall, the quality of the stories is high, and a fine collection showcasing primarily British authors, although perhaps just a tad below the quality of last year’s ‘Constellations’.
Read moreStories by : Alastair Reynolds, Alex Irvine, Bruce Sterling, Charles Coleman Finlay, Charles Stross, Chris Beckett, Eleanor Arnason, Geoff Ryman, Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Ian McDonald, Ian R. Macleod, James Van Pelt, John Kessel, John Meaney, Kage Baker, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael Swanwick, Molly Gloss, Nancy Kress, Paul McAuley, Richard Wadholm, Robert Reed, Steven Popkes, Walter Jon Williams
Read moreAll in all, an interesting varied collection, and well worth the shelf-space.
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