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.
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Esther M. Friesner. The One That Got Away. (Asimovs, April/May 2011).
Fans of classic horror will go ape over this mashup. Great stuff.
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe 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…..
Read moreThe 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
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Alex Irvine. The Lorelei. A nice piece of writing about the fin-de-siecle New York art scene, in which an aspiring
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe 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,
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Robert Reed. The Majesty of Angels. Occasionally, very occasionally, you come across an SF short story that stands out ‘head
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An 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.
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Sunrise Blues. S.N. Dyer A not unknown storyline – linking rock’n’roll with vampires – is handled extremely well through a
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Esther M. Friesner. The Fraud. The cover illustration (a Raphael no less) is a good companion for a piece of
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, January 2002
Oracles. Robert Reed. One of the reasons why I started summarising short SF stories I had read in the first
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 2000
The Royals of Hegn. Ursula K. Le Guin A short tale from UKLG, describing the small country of Hegn, particularly
Read moreNebula Award Stories 32. ed. Jack Dann. Harvest, 1998
Stories by : Harry Turtledove, Dean Wesley Smith, Jack Dann, Esther M. Friesner, Paul Levinson, Nicola Griffith, Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Holland Rogers.
Read moreNebula Award Stories 31. ed. Pamela Sargent
Stories 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.
Read moreThe Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: the Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Edward L. Ferman and Gordon van Gelder (eds). Tor 1999.
F&SF have been producing anthologies since 1952 – annual anthologies for the first quarter century, and every two or three
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