Jack Skillingstead. The Despoilers. (Clarkesworld Magazine #120 September 2016)
A neat little story focussing on a father-daughter relationship that is being tested…
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Jack Skillingstead. Arlington. (Asimovs August 2013)
Great story from Skillingstead. Revealing the story through a very sick man reflecting on an incident much earlier in his life,
Read moreJack Skillingstead. Free Dog. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2011)
A dog is a man’s best friend, but in this short story a virtual poodle becomes the focus of divorce-settlement unpleasantness, as the dog goes viral.
Read moreJack Skillingstead. Steel Lake. (Solaris Rising).
A father with his own substance abuse history finds his son’s experimentation with drugs has put him at grave risk.
Read moreJack Skillingstead. The Flow and Dream. (Asimovs, April/May 2011)
A short but strong, tense psychological piece.
Read moreThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April/May 2009
The first of the now double-size but bi-monthly F&SF. The disappointment of now to be hearing a copy of F&SF
Read moreAsimovs, April/May 2009
An excellent issue, as you might expect with authors of the standing of Stableford, Reed, Wilhelm, Swanwick, Kress and Rusch. Those without that standing (yet) similarly provide top quality. Well, you only have a 400th issue once.
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Nancy Kress. The Erdman Nexus. Kress on top form with a strong story to start the issue. There is an
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Matthew Johnson. Lagos. Neatly and wryly brings the bombardment of spam emails into the real world through the daily travails
Read moreAsimovs, December 2007
Connie Willis. All Seated on the Ground. I normally have a beef at having to read Asimovs’ christmas issue some
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Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling. Hormiga Canyon. You’d expect a collaboration by these two authors to hit the g-(whizz) spot,
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Harry Turtledove. News From the Front. Alternate History relating the role played by FD Roosevelt in getting the US involved
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Alex Wilson. Outgoing. A countdown to a climax, with 10 episodes in the lives of an unlikely pair. Episode 10
Read moreAsimovs, September 2006
A return to reading the print version after several months reading e-versions, and a welcome return I have to say.
Read moreAsimovs, 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.
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Reviewed : MobiPocket version on a Tapwave Zodiac. Jonathan Sherwood. Under the Graying Sea. The largest protospike engine in history
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PDF/eBookMan version reviewed. Tom Purdom. Bank Run. Sabor Haveri, ultra-rich banker, finds his idyllic boating trip, in which his splitting
Read moreAsimovs, April/May 2005
Walter Jon Williams. Solidarity. A sequel to ‘Margaux’ (Asimovs, May 2003) in which Gredel, a young woman living out a
Read moreAsimovs, October/November 2004
Charles Stross. Survivor. The penultimate Accelerando series, in which Manfred Mancx finally makes a corporeal return, and those who have
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William Barton. The Gods of A Lesser Creation. Barton returns to the setting of previous stories of his ‘Heart of
Read moreAsimovs, February 2004
Mike Resnick. Travels with My Cats. Resnick furnishes a story the like of which you would normally expect to see
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A strong collection of stories by Cory Doctorow, Daniel Abraham and Susan Fry, David Marusek, Jack Skillingstead, James Patrick Kelly, John Varley, Lawrence Person, Tom Purdom.
Read moreRich Horton. Science Fiction The Best of the Year 2008 Edition.
As has been the case with others in his take on the year’s best SF there is less I agree with than is the case with the other year’s best volumes.
Read moreThe Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three. (ed George Mann, Solaris 2009.)
The third in the Solaris series hits the street just as the word on those streets is that the imprint
Read moreFast Forward 2. ed Lou Anders, pub Pyr 2008.
As with #1, another handsome collection of short SF from some of the biggest names in SF. Praise especially for making room for the lengthy Rosenbaum/Doctorow story.
Read moreScience Fiction The Best of the Year 2007 edition, ed Rich Horton, Prime Books 2007
A collection more in tune with my preferences than last year’s, with the exclusion of Analog stories being the primary cause of that.
Read moreYear’s Best Science Fiction, 24th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2007
Stories by : A.M. Dellamonica, Alastair Reynolds, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Bruce McAllister, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, David D. Levine, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, Greg Egan, Greg van Eekhout, Gregory Benford, Ian McDonald, Jack Skillingstead, Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, John Barnes, Justin Stanchfield, Kage Baker, Ken MacLeod, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Charles Wilson, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Walter Jon Williams
Read moreYear’s Best Science Fiction, 21st Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2004
Stories by : Charles Stross, Dominic Green, Geoff Ryman, Geoffrey A. Landis, Harry Turtledove, Howard Waldrop, Jack Skillingstead, James Van Pelt, John C. Wright, John Kessel, John Varley, Judith Moffett, Kage Baker, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, M. Shayne Bell, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Nick DiChario, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Paul Melko, Robert Reed, Steven Popkes, Terry Bisson, Terry Dowling, Vernor Vinge, Walter Jon Williams, William Barton, William Shunn.
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