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Ian R. MacLeod and Martin Sketchley. The Howl. (Solaris Rising 3)
The wreckage of a crashed Vulcan bomber, missing since the days of the Cold War, gives an opportunity to reflect on the ‘what ifs’ of that period, the nuclear payload being at once a Pandora’s Box into which Schrodinger’s cat is put.
Ian R. MacLeod. Entangled. (Asimovs December 2013)
A clever, layered story that mixes technology and sociology and economics and human behaviour.
Ian R. MacLeod. The Discovered Country. (Asimovs September 2013)
It’s well told, fresh take on the trope of humans uploading to a virtual space upon death, with the final pages upping the ante, with believable characters and motivations, and more.
Ian R. MacLeod. The Cold Step Beyond. (Asimovs, June 2011)
A return to the setting of ‘Breathmoss’ and MacLeod gets it just right.
Ian R. MacLeod. Recrossing the Styx. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2010)
Very dark, top quality macabre humour from MacLeod.
Interzone Number 169, July 2001
Isabel of the Fall. Ian R. MacLeod. MacLeod has put together ten years’ worth of excellent short SF, many stories of which have rightly been selected to appear in a variety of Years Best collections. Favourites of mine from the past five years include ‘Starship Day’ (Asimovs, and subsequently Dozois’ 13th Annual Collection), ‘Nevermore’ (in […]
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2007
Ian R. MacLeod. The Master Miller’s Tale.. Based in the alternate setting of his novel ‘The Light Ages’, MacLeod paints a very atmospheric picture of rural Lincolnshire in England as the old ways are making way, reluctantly, for the new ones. The alternate element is that of the magic – the bucolic, rural magic which […]