It’s way too long since I read a short SF story from Stross, and this fits the bill nicely.
Tag Archives | Charles Stross
Interzone, Number 157, July 2000
Hideaway, Alastair Reynolds. Far future, with humanity in dire straits. The enigmatic Waymakers have, perhaps, left one route to safety with their Waynet, which may be a Krasnikov tube. Merlin is determined to try this route using one of the remaining srynix. With the Huskers closing in, another opportunity appears – to hide. The twin […]
Asimovs, January 2007
Nancy Kress. Safeguard. A classy piece of writing from Kress, who cleverly intertwines story and backstory to reach a shattering denouement. Three young children are being ‘raised’ in a small habitat, with only a minumum of human contact, and the humans they contact are biohazard-suited. We find out that they are in some way a […]
Asimovs, October/November 2004
Charles Stross. Survivor. The penultimate Accelerando series, in which Manfred Mancx finally makes a corporeal return, and those who have kept that status and stayed at home find out about the true nature of Meiko the cat, and themselves (Manfred and Pamela’s breakup somewhat more complex than they had though), and they appear set to […]
Asimovs, September 2004
Maureen F. McHugh. Oversite. Sensitive story about three generations of women growing apart, through the eyes of Clara, the middle generation of the three. She is having to give up her mother, whom she is slowly losing to Alzheimers. And she is having loosen the ties with her daughter, who is moving from childhood to […]
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, December 2003
I missed this when it first hit the shelves, so a mini-review some months after the event. Connie Willis. Just Like the Ones We Used To Know. The Christmas Special leads of with a story about an exceptionally heavy snowfall across the whole of the US of A. And, erm, that’s about it. John Alfred […]
Asimovs, April 2003
A list of authors on the front cover which promises a lot! Charles Stross. Nightfall. A further installment in the Mancx family saga. We rejoin Amber, the very model of a post-modern human, having escaped the Vingean singularity of a Solar System constrained future. She ‘reawakens’ into a virtual environment, but not the one she […]
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 2002
Pressure of work has been keeping away from my SF bookshop haunts of late and from spending much time reading. Damn this Real Lifetm. I’ve also let the August issue of Asimov’s slip by un-purchased, and shall endeavour to locate a copy! Eleanor Arnason. The Potter of Bones. I should own up to the fact […]