Jaine Fenn. The Martian Job. (Newcon Press 2017)
Read in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirty Fifth Annual Collection (Dozois, 2018). Published by
Jaine Fenn. Dreaming Towers, Silent Mansions. (Solaris Rising)
A touch of the Lovecraftian Mountains of Madness in the eerie, almost-deserted city through which they roam, as the team gradually dwindles in size.
Subterfuge. Edited by Ian Whates, Newcon Press. 2008
Ian Whates latest collection under the NewCon imprint comes in a variety of flavours : paperback, hardback, and special (extra stories!) limited-edition, signed hardback. It is the latter of these reviewed here. And Whates has provided another strong collection, bigger than previous volumes, and worth looking out for. The standard of writing, and the invention in the stories, is almost uniformly excellent, and is strongly recommended