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Derek Kunsken

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Derek Kunsken. Pollen from a Future Harvest. (Asimovs July 2015)

October 20, 2015 Mark Watson 0 Comments Derek Kunsken

Kunsken fits in just so much ‘extra’ into the story, when a more bog standard approach would have been a simple ‘scientist solves riddle’ story

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Derek Kunsken. Ghost Colors. (Asimovs February 2015)

March 1, 2015 Mark Watson 0 Comments Derek Kunsken

An interesting read, particularly in this age when geneological databases, family history research, and even Facebook can keep you closely attached to the past in a way that wasn’t the case pre-Internet.

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Derek Kunsken. Schools of Clay. (Asimovs February 2014)

January 19, 2014January 19, 2014 Mark Watson 0 Comments Derek Kunsken

Set in the same/similar world to his ‘The Way of The Needle’ from Asimovs March 2012 – metal/mechanical crablike race of creatures, harvesting minerals and other materials from the planet’s surface.

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Derek Kunsken. The Way of the Needle. (Asimovs, March 2012)

July 7, 2012January 19, 2014 Mark Watson 0 Comments Derek Kunsken

An excellent piece of world-building from Kunsken, set on a planet whose inhabitants are metallic crablike creatures, who draw power from the ancient pulsar around which they orbit, post-supernova.

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Derek Kunsken. To Live and Die in Gibbontown. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)

November 26, 2011December 8, 2011 Mark Watson 0 Comments Derek Kunsken

Monkey business on a gonzo Planet of the Apes, with a hired assassin failing spectacularly to complete his contract.

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This SF&F anthology ceased with Volume 13 in 2019, but Strahan has an SF-only anthology from Saga Press due out July 2020. Browse all editions of this annual anthology :

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