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. 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.
Read moreAlex Irvine. The Word He Was Looking For Was Hello. (Is Anyone Out There?)
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
Read moreThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2008
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
Read moreThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2006
Alex Irvine. Shambhala. The story was inspired by the illustration by Mark Evans which graces the cover, and is, like
Read moreThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2005
Steven Popkes. The Great Caruso. A long-term smoker sources some dubious cigarettes, and finds that her lungs have been subtly
Read moreThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2005
Alex Irvine. The Lorelei. A nice piece of writing about the fin-de-siecle New York art scene, in which an aspiring
Read moreThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2004
Mark W. Tiedemann. Rain from Another Country. Even after her death, Ann Myref is trying to seek closure on her
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Matthew Hughes. Mastermindless. The protagonist realises with a start that his facial features and his intellectual capacity are suddenly less
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Bret Bertholf. Alfred Bester Is Alive and Well and Living in Winterset, Iowa. A ‘doozy’ according to the editorial intro,
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Buy a copy from Amazon. M. Shayne Bell. Anomalous Structures of My Dreams. When the protagonist finds himself in a
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Paul Di Filippo. The Short Ashy Afterlife of Hiram P. Dottle. The bookish Dottle finds his path from quiet middle
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Yesterday’s Tomorrows. Kate Wilhelm. Not a Kate Wilhelm Special Issue as it says on the cover, but a Special Kate
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Have Not Have. Geoff Ryman. Classy stuff. The societal impact of technology is something that Ryman has written on before
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Alex Irvine. Shepherded by Galatea. A few pages in, with a lot more information about the chemistry in the upper
Read moreThe Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two. ed Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2008.
Stories 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 moreForbidden Planets, edited by Peter Crowther, DAW Books 2006
Overall, 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 moreYear’s Best Science Fiction, 20th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2003
Stories 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 moreLive Without a Net. edited by Lou Anders. Roc, 2003
All in all, an interesting varied collection, and well worth the shelf-space.
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