Damien Broderick. The Beancounter’s Cat. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 29th Annual Collection)
A story that packs a lot into a few pages.
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Damien Broderick. Under the Moons of Venus. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 5)
A complex story, as you’d expected (and demand) from Broderick.
Read moreDamien Broderick and Barbara Lamar. Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone. (Engineering Infinity).
A shoo-in for a Year’s Best collection next year. I’d tip Dozois and Strahan himself to include this one in their respective volumes.
Read moreAsimovs. February 2010.
A strong issue, with stories from authors well-established and authors on the way up : Aliette de Bodard, Bruce McAllister, Caroline M. Yoachim, Damien Broderick, David Erik Nelson, Stephen Baxter.
Read moreDamien Broderick. Dead Air. (Asimovs February 2010).
Broderick suckers the reader into thinking his dyspeptic dystopian view is a wry comment on our current society, until…
Read moreAsimovs, October/November 2009
It’s a good issue, without being a classic. Stories by Barzak, Broderick, Lindsey, Malcolm, Creasey, Kress, Garcia y Robertson, Reed, Kosmatka, Poore, Barton
Read moreAsimovs, August 2009
An excellent issue. Rusch and Popkes perhaps the slightly weaker of the contributions, Broderick and Reed edging ahead of Blumstein, Zumsteg and Kowal.
Read moreAsimovs, April/May 2009
An excellent issue, as you might expect with authors of the standing of Stableford, Reed, Wilhelm, Swanwick, Kress and Rusch. Those without that standing (yet) similarly provide top quality. Well, you only have a 400th issue once.
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Mary Rosenblum. Lion Walk. Science thriller set in an African game reserve where the second body in a few weeks
Read moreYear’s Best Science Fiction, 14th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. 1997
Stories by : Bruce Sterling, Bud Sparhawk, Charles Sheffield, Cherry Wilder, Damian Broderick, Gene Wolfe., Gregory Benford, Gregory Feeley, Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, James P Blaylock, Jim Cowan, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael Cassutt, Michael Swanwick, Mike Resnick, Nancy Kress, Paul Park, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Baxter, Steven Utley, Tony Daniel, Walter Jon Williams, William Barton.
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