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.
Tag Archives | Esther M. Friesner
Esther M. Friesner. The One That Got Away. (Asimovs, April/May 2011).
Fans of classic horror will go ape over this mashup. Great stuff.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2007
Esther M. Friesner. At These Prices. Lightweight, very lightweight humour, involving a particularly unappealing hotel guest who takes much more from the hotel than the bath robe. The humour didn’t really work for me, so after a while it was a skim through to the end of a story which just felt a tad olde-fashioned. […]
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2005
Chock 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…..
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2005
Albert E. Cowdrey. The Amulet. In which a young journalist (in New Orleans, natch) meets a lady with an amulet which she says bestows longevity on the owner, provider you follow the rules. She relates the histories of some of those whom have owned said amulet, and how it changed her life. A gently amusing […]
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2005
Alex Irvine. The Lorelei. A nice piece of writing about the fin-de-siecle New York art scene, in which an aspiring young artist travels to the city, and falls under the muse of an older artist, himself under the spell of another muse. Not much F&SF in it, though.. John G. McDaid. Keyboard Practice : consisting […]
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2004
James Stoddard. The Battle of York. Some 3000 years after the passing of America, the history of the early days of the country lives on, through a not altogether reliable mythology. Stoddard has a huge amount of fun bringing together a wide range of American icons and historical figures – General Custard, Waynejon (The Pilgrim), […]
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2003
Bret Bertholf. Alfred Bester Is Alive and Well and Living in Winterset, Iowa. A ‘doozy’ according to the editorial intro, and I concur. What is particularly refreshing is that Bertholf adds a variety of graphics (from Virgil Finlay to Dr Seuss) to an already psychedelic text that could come straight fromthe 1960s, as an AI […]