Ian Creasey. My Time on Earth. (Asimovs October/November 2015)
A young girl returns from her visit to Earth, and has a ghost story to tell friends from her last night on the planet in the old city of York.
Ian Creasey. Ormonde and Chase. (Asimovs June 2014)
A plant story that has a germ of an idea, but the plant was rushed out of the greenhouse a bit too early, without enough hardening off.
Ian Creasey. Within These Well-Scrubbed Walls. (Asimovs Oct/Nov 2013)
Short mood-piece in which an adult son clearing his recently-deceased mother’s house has cause to reflect on his upbringing, constrained by her OCD cleanliness issues.
Ian Creasey. The Unparallel’d Death-Defying Feats of Astoundio… (Asimovs September 2013)
A humorous look at escapology in the far future, with the Astoundio of the title upping the ante with fellow escapologists by escaping from beyond the event horizon of a black hole.
Ian Creasey. Joining the High Flyers. (Asimovs August 2012)
A sequel to a story which I rated as a ‘fairly leaden rumination’. This story takes to the skies in terms of the narrative – but what of the story itself?
Ian Creasey. Souvenirs. (Asimovs Science Fiction, April/May 2012)
Nice enough as far as it goes, without really going (boldly or otherwise) anywhere that hasn’t been gone before.
Ian Creasey. The Odor of Sanctity. (Asimovs, September 2011).
On a backward planet, primitive superstition holds that when a religious leader destined for sainthood dies, there is a wondrous odor at their passing.
Ian Creasey. “I Was Nearly Your Mother”. (Asimovs, March 2011).
After Neal Barrett Jr’s ‘Where’, with a very strange setting, Creasey provides a rather more prosaic setting of Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire.
Ian Creasey. The Prize Beyond Gold. (Asimovs, Dec 2010).
Fairly leaden rumination on issues around sporting achievement in the future.
Year’s Best SF 15. (eds Hartwell/Cramer, Eos Books, 2010).
As ever, a strong collection of stories, albeit fairly ‘safe’ in terms of a relatively narrow range of sources.
Ian Creasey. Crimes, Follies, Misfortunes and Love. (Asimovs August 2010).
Post-apocalypse, is the past somewhere best left as a foreign country?
Asimovs, October/November 2009
It’s a good issue, without being a classic. Stories by Barzak, Broderick, Lindsey, Malcolm, Creasey, Kress, Garcia y Robertson, Reed, Kosmatka, Poore, Barton
Asimovs, September 2008
William Barton. In the Age of the Quiet Sun. Good to see another story from
Asimovs, March 2008
Brian Stableford. Following the Pharmers. Stableford has published several stories looking at the consequences in
Asimovs, December 2006
Paolo Bacigalupi. Yellow Card Man. Bacigalupi’s ‘The Calorie Man’ appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction’s
Asimovs, September 2006
A return to reading the print version after several months reading e-versions, and a welcome
Asimovs, June 2006
Rucker, Reed, Skillingstead and Kelly do it for me. Carter, Johnson, Creasey and Bernobich don’t, which makes it a 50/50 split, whereas I tend to get a 75/25 or 80/20 from Asimovs.
Asimovs, February 2006
Reviewed : MobiPocket version on a Tapwave Zodiac. Jonathan Sherwood. Under the Graying Sea. The
Year’s Best SF 12. ed David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Eos Books 2007
Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Carol Emshwiller, Charlie Rosenkrantz, Claude Lalumiere, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, Edd Vick, Eileen Gunn, Gardner R Dozois, Gregory Benford, Heather Lindsley, Ian Creasey, Ian R. Macleod, Joe Haldeman, Kameron Hurley, Liz Williams, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Flynn, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, Rudy Rucker, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Wil McCarthy.