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Bruce McCallister. DreamPet. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015)

April 8, 2016 Mark Watson 0 Comments Bruce McCallister

A story that was pitched as a movie back in the day – which would start out My Little Pony and end up Predator/Do Androids….

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Bruce McAllister. Free Range. (Asimovs, June 2012)

November 9, 2012 Mark Watson 0 Comments Bruce McCallister

Nicely told story that builds to a gnarly life and death struggle in a bedroom with an elderly Viet buddhist clad in only red boxing shorts defending the Earth from alien invasion.

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Albedo One #38

July 5, 2010December 21, 2011 Mark Watson 0 Comments Aaron Polson, Allison Francisco, Bruce McCallister, Martin Belderson, Matthew F. Perry, Priya Sharma

The latest issue of the Irish SFFH magazine opens and closes strongly.

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Bruce McAllister. Blue Fire. (F&SF Mar/Apr 2010).

May 7, 2010May 7, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Bruce McCallister

Quite categorically, the best short story about a vampiric attack on the Holy City that I have ever read.

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F&SF 

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2005

February 15, 2010December 15, 2012 Mark Watson 0 Comments Albert E Cowdrey, Bruce McCallister, Jim Young, John Morressy, Mike Shultz, Robert Reed, Scott Bradfield, Steven Utley

An issue which gets stronger the further you get in (unless you’re a fan of the Kedrigern stories). For me Utley and McCalliser where the pick of the bunch, with Cowdrey, Reed and Shultz entertaining.

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Asimovs 

Asimovs, January 2005

February 14, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Bruce McCallister, Connie Willis, Larry Niven, Matthew Jarpe, Philip C. Jennings, Susan Palwick

Hmmm, the first post-Dozois issue. Having to cope with that change alongside the Interzone change, don’t these people realise that

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