Elizabeth Bear. The Bone War. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2015)
The skeleton animation skills of Bijou the Artificier are called upon. Big time.
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Elizabeth Bear. Margin of Survival. (The End Has Come, 2015)
Bear had a singleton story in the second of this three volume trilogy, and has another in this volume, which also features a determined, resourceful lead character.
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Elizabeth Bear. You’ve Never Seen Everything. (The End is Now)
A singleton story amidst the second installment stories in this middle volume of the apocalypse trilogy.
Read moreElizabeth Bear. The Deeps of the Sky. (Edge of Infinity)
Bear’s ‘Boojum’ and ‘Mongoose’, co-authored with Sarah Monette, were notably imaginative stories, but this one by Bear just fails to live up to the standard.
Read moreElizabeth Bear. In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns. (Asimovs January 2012)
A locked room murder mystery in near future India that has depth, physics, astronomy, First Contact, cloning, and a talking cat. What’s not to like?
Read moreElizabeth Bear. Gods of The Forge. (trsf : the Best New Science Fiction)
Looks at bio-medicine, and posits whether medicating against certain human frailties may not be a good thing.
Read moreElizabeth Bear. Dolly. (Asimovs, January 2011).
A beautiful robot, but one with no sense of self, and consequently closer to a sex toy, is found over the body of her owner.
Read moreSarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear. Mongoose. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 4)
Politics and backstory to flesh out the action in a story that lives up to its predecessor.
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