Keith Brooke and Eric Brown. Eternity’s Children. (Solaris Rising)
Brooke and Brown were regulars in the David Pringle-era of Interzone, and this is a story that could be straight from one of those issues.
Eric Brown. The Soul of the Machine. (Further Conflicts)
Brown picks up the story of the spacer and the AI construct embodied in a foxy Venezualan body from the first Conflicts volume
Eric Brown. Guardians of The Phoenix. (The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF)
Brown effectively paints a bleak, desert and deserted Earth.
Eric Brown. Dissimulation Procedure. (Conflicts).
The story skips along at a fair pace without really offering any real depth, or colour, or description (save for the opening restaurant centre) beyond the routine
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue #49, October 2010
Stories by Eric Brown and Jacques Barcia
Interzone Number 190 July/August
John Meaney. Entangled Eyes are Smiling. Jack’s love life takes a turn for the worse
Interzone Number 186 February 2003
Eric Brown. The Wisdom of the Dead. Interzone have published a number of stories in
Interzone Number 181 August 2002
Mat Coward. Time Spent in Reconnaissance. A very peculiarly British take on Roswell visitors. Having
Interzone Number 180 June/July 2002
The publishers are at pains to point out that whilst this issue is dated ‘June/July’
Interzone Number 171, September 2001
The Frankenberg Process. Eric Brown. Shades of ‘Think Like a Dinosaur’, in that the Frankenberg
Interzone Number 167, May 2001
Flickering. Ayerdhal. Credit to Interzone for including yet more non-English SF, in this case a
Interzone Number 163, January 2001.
Catch the Sleep Ship: the first science-fiction story of the century. George Zebrowski. Complements the
Asimovs, June 2009
A strong collection, with the Purdom story somewhat of a struggle.
We Think, Therefore We Are’ ed Peter Crowther pub DAW Books 2009
Daw and Crowther provide the goods once again, in a pocket-sized collection that manages to 15 almost invariably top quality stories.
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Two, ed George Mann, Solaris 2008
The first volume in this new series from Solaris Books, was a safe and solid
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed George Mann, 2007
Sixteen stories, of which I’d say 8 hit the mark. It’s a collection of fairly traditional SF, eschewing the new speculative, as perhaps might be expected with the authors for the most being well established. The majority of the stories could have been written anytime during the 1990s, making it a good, if safe collection, and a solid start.
Constellations, edited by Peter Crowther, DAW Books 2005
If it’s SFnal bang for your buck you’re after, you won’t get much better value for money than this during 2005.
Eric Brown. Approaching Omega. Telos Publishing, 2005.
Eric Brown has been writing for more than a decade, a (very) regular contributor to
Eric Brown. The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne. PS Publishing, 2005.
Whilst I have a suspicion that the 498 pages of the Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures may well never get read, I can confirm that the slimmer volume in hand was a most enjoyable read (concluding pun notwithstanding) in which Brown gives a convincing impersonation of M Verne. Certainly a better showpiece of Brown’s ability than his recent ‘Approaching Omega’
infinity 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.
‘infinities’. edited by Peter Crowther, (Gollancz 2002)
This is a handsome hard-back book which would grace any shelf (albeit that the shape of the book will require a deep shelf!). The stories are of varying quality and SFness, but work together well. A recommended purchase for those of you who haven’t got the stories in their PS Publishing format.
The Ant-Men of Tibet and other stories. Edited by David Pringle. Big Engine, 2001.
The Ant-Men of Tibet. Stephen Baxter Originally in Interzone #95, May 1995. Baxter pays a