Charles Stross. Bit Rot. (Engineering Infinity).
It’s way too long since I read a short SF story from Stross, and this fits the bill nicely.
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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
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Nancy Kress. Safeguard. A classy piece of writing from Kress, who cleverly intertwines story and backstory to reach a shattering
Read moreAsimovs, October/November 2004
Charles Stross. Survivor. The penultimate Accelerando series, in which Manfred Mancx finally makes a corporeal return, and those who have
Read moreAsimovs, September 2004
Maureen F. McHugh. Oversite. Sensitive story about three generations of women growing apart, through the eyes of Clara, the middle
Read moreAsimov’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
Read moreAsimovs, April 2003
A list of authors on the front cover which promises a lot! Charles Stross. Nightfall. A further installment in the
Read moreAsimov’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.
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, June 2002
Having had to hand back my PDA upon leaving my last employer, I had gone without a mobile e-reading facility
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 2002
I’ve been reading Asimov’s in two formats over the past couple of years: the traditional dead-tree pulp sized magazine, and
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October/November 2001 (Peanut Press edition)
A pretty damn good collection. Steele and Martinez were a tad below an otherwise high standard.
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, June 2001 (Peanut Press edition).
Has there been a better issue of Asimovs in recent years?
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 moreOne Million A.D., ed Gardner Dozois, SFBC 2005
not as much boggle for my buck as I had hoped, but still a lot of boggle in there!
Read moreNova Scotia – new Scottish Speculative Fiction, ed Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson. Crescent, 2005
A good mix of SF, alternate history and horror, interspered with some dry humour. It’s a handsome paperback that deserves to do well.
Read moreScience Fiction The Best of 2004, edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan. ibooks, 2005
Stories by : Carol Emshwiller, Charles Stross, Christopher Rowe, Gene Wolfe., James Patrick Kelly, Jeff VanderMeer, Joe Haldeman, M. John Harrison, Nancy Kress, Paolo Bacigalupi, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Walter Jon Williams.
Read moreScience Fiction The Best of 2002, edited by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber. ibooks, 2003
With the SF community having being served for two decades by the Dozois annual collection, producing an anthology with only a dozen stories is going to be challenging. The Silverberg/Haber collection makes it even more difficult as the majority of the stories are from the first half of 2002.
Read moreScience Fiction Book Club Best Short Novels 2005, ed Jonathan Strahan, SFBC 2005
Stories by : Bradley Denton, Charles Stross, Daniel Abraham, Eleanor Arnason, Gardner Dozois, George RR Martin, Gregory Feeley, Ian McDowell, James Patrick Kelly, Judith Berman, Patricia A. McKillip, Stephen Baxter.
Read moreYear’s Best SF 9. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer. Eos, 2004
Stories by : Allen M. Steele, Angelica Gorodischer, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Gene Wolfe., Geoff Ryman, Gregory Benford, Joe Haldeman, Kage Baker, M Rickert, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Nigel Brown, Octavia E. Butler, Richard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero, Rick Moody, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Tony Ballantyne.
Read moreYear’s Best SF 8. David G. Hartwell. Eos Books 2003
Stories by : A.M. Dellamonica, Bruce Sterling, Carol Emshwiller, Charles Sheffield, Charles Stross, Eleanor Arnason, Gene Wolfe., Geoffrey A. Landis, Greg Egan, J.R. Dunn, Jack Williamson, Ken Wharton, Michael Moorcock, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Neal Asher, Paul Di Filippo, Richard Chwedyk, Robert Onopa, Robert Reed, Robert Sheckley, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Read moreYear’s Best Science Fiction, 21st Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2004
Stories by : Charles Stross, Dominic Green, Geoff Ryman, Geoffrey A. Landis, Harry Turtledove, Howard Waldrop, Jack Skillingstead, James Van Pelt, John C. Wright, John Kessel, John Varley, Judith Moffett, Kage Baker, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, M. Shayne Bell, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Nick DiChario, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Paul Melko, Robert Reed, Steven Popkes, Terry Bisson, Terry Dowling, Vernor Vinge, Walter Jon Williams, William Barton, William Shunn.
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 moreYear’s Best Science Fiction, 19th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2002
Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Allen M. Steele, Andy Duncan, Brenda W. Clough, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Charles Stross, Chris Beckett, Dan Simmons, Eleanor Arnason, Geoff Ryman, Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy, Ian R. Macleod, James Kelly, Jim Grimsley, Ken MacLeod, Michael Blumlein, Michael Cassutt, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul Di Filippo, Paul McAuley, Robert Reed, Simon Ings, William Sanders.
Read moreYear’s Best Science Fiction, 18th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 2001
Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Albert E Cowdrey, Brian Stableford, Charles Stross, Eliot Fintushel., Greg Egan, Ian McDonald, John Kessel, Lucius Shepard, M. Shayne Bell, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Peter F. Hamilton, Rick Cook and Ernest Hogan, Robert Charles Wilson, Severna Park, Stephen Baxter, Steven Utley, Susan Palwick, Tananarive Due, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Read moreNebula Awards Showcase 2004 – edited by Vonda N. McIntyre, Roc, April 2004
I can recommend this year’s ‘Showcase’ as being chock full of good stuff – a marked improvement over last year’s issue which didn’t have a whole lot of fiction in it to read
Read moreinfinity plus two edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers, (PS Publishing, 2003)
A nice volume to have on the shelves, with a wide range of quality content which showcases a wide range of SF, and high production values. The high price and limited print run will restrict the volume to collectors, but as the stories aren’t originals, we can’t complain that the average SF reader is being deprived.
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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