Interzone Number 177, March 2002
A 20th Anniversary issue, with Guest Editors Nick Gevers and Keith Brooke of the InfinityPlus
Interzone Number 171, September 2001
The Frankenberg Process. Eric Brown. Shades of ‘Think Like a Dinosaur’, in that the Frankenberg
Interzone Number 163, January 2001.
Catch the Sleep Ship: the first science-fiction story of the century. George Zebrowski. Complements the
Extraordinary Engines : the definitive Steampunk Anthology, ed Nick Gevers pub Solaris 2008
An excellent collection, with only a couple of weaker contributions. A couple are more fantasy than steampunk, but there is high quality writing throughout and a couple of stories that linger (Youmans, Lanagan and Lake) for some time.
We Think, Therefore We Are’ ed Peter Crowther pub DAW Books 2009
Daw and Crowther provide the goods once again, in a pocket-sized collection that manages to 15 almost invariably top quality stories.
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed George Mann, 2007
Sixteen stories, of which I’d say 8 hit the mark. It’s a collection of fairly traditional SF, eschewing the new speculative, as perhaps might be expected with the authors for the most being well established. The majority of the stories could have been written anytime during the 1990s, making it a good, if safe collection, and a solid start.
Constellations, edited by Peter Crowther, DAW Books 2005
If it’s SFnal bang for your buck you’re after, you won’t get much better value for money than this during 2005.