Esther M. Friesner. Rutger and Baby Do Jotenheim. (F&SF Sept/Oct 2011).
A most bodaciously excellent yarn from Friesner, with a very unlikely couple – one an academic, the latter a pole dancer – at the table of the Norse gods.
Read moreA most bodaciously excellent yarn from Friesner, with a very unlikely couple – one an academic, the latter a pole dancer – at the table of the Norse gods.
Read moreFans of classic horror will go ape over this mashup. Great stuff.
Read moreEsther M. Friesner. At These Prices. Lightweight, very lightweight humour, involving a particularly unappealing hotel guest who takes much more
Read moreChock full of protein for the brain, with only a bit of excess fat and carbohydrate. To burn off those calories I’m off for a bit of ‘fast-paced’ Asimov’s action…..
Read moreAlbert E. Cowdrey. The Amulet. In which a young journalist (in New Orleans, natch) meets a lady with an amulet
Read moreAlex Irvine. The Lorelei. A nice piece of writing about the fin-de-siecle New York art scene, in which an aspiring
Read moreJames Stoddard. The Battle of York. Some 3000 years after the passing of America, the history of the early days
Read moreBret Bertholf. Alfred Bester Is Alive and Well and Living in Winterset, Iowa. A ‘doozy’ according to the editorial intro,
Read moreRobert Reed. The Majesty of Angels. Occasionally, very occasionally, you come across an SF short story that stands out ‘head
Read moreAn enjoyable collection, with Friesner, Disch, Bowman and Dozois providing some entertaining if not substantial fare. Williamson and Thomas provide some good fiction, the Finlay story is stretched just a bit too far to have really held my attention, but the Friesner is a little gem.
Read moreSunrise Blues. S.N. Dyer A not unknown storyline – linking rock’n’roll with vampires – is handled extremely well through a
Read moreEsther M. Friesner. The Fraud. The cover illustration (a Raphael no less) is a good companion for a piece of
Read moreOracles. Robert Reed. One of the reasons why I started summarising short SF stories I had read in the first
Read moreThe Royals of Hegn. Ursula K. Le Guin A short tale from UKLG, describing the small country of Hegn, particularly
Read moreStories by : Harry Turtledove, Dean Wesley Smith, Jack Dann, Esther M. Friesner, Paul Levinson, Nicola Griffith, Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Holland Rogers.
Read moreStories by : Dale Bailey, Elizabeth Hand, Esther M. Friesner, James Patrick Kelly, Kelley Eskridge, Lisa Goldstein, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert A Sawyer, Ursula K. Le Guin.
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