Jay Lake. An Exile of the Heart. (Clarkesworld Magazine #100 January 2015)
I still make the odd trip to jlake.com hoping that Jay’s got some wisdom to impart posthumously, a la Hari Seldon,
Jay Lake. The Stars Do Not Lie. (Asimovs, October/November 2012)
An excellent look at religion, faith and the challenging of them, in a story that’s nominated for both Hugo and Nebula and is now online to read.
Jay Lake. The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future . (Subterranean Online Spring 2012)
The Before Michaela Cannon returns in another enthralling ‘Sunspin’ installment!
Jay Lake and Ken Scholes. The Starship Mechanic. (Tor.com, January 2010)
Short in the reading, likely to be long in the memory.
Jay Lake. On the Human Plan. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010).
..a story that benefits from careful reading, there’s a lot of thought gone into its writing, with some clever imagery and thoughtful turns of phrase.
Jay Lake. Human Error. (Interzone #226, Jan/Feb 2010)
Gritty, sweaty, emotional drama, with the focus on the human relationships rather than the science or the technology, as is Lake’s trademark.
Jay Lake. Permanent Fatal Errors. (Is Anybody Out There?)
A tight drama from Lake in his ‘Sunspin’ setting.
Rich Horton. The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009.
A late arrival on my doorstep, and it’s taken much longer to finish the review than I had hoped. Note to self : faster dude, faster!
Jay Lake. A Water Matter. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009)
As Lake invariably does he puts effort into creating a interesting background to his story, and its visceral in terms of the action and denouement.
The New Space Opera 2. (ed Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos 2009).
A big book, with a huge amount of top quality SF.
Interzone #225, November/December 2009.
A strong issue, with stories by Jason Sanford, Rebecca J. Payne, Colin Harvey, Lavie Tidhar, Shannon Page and Jay Lake.
Shannon Page and Jay Lake. Bone Island. (Interzone #225, Nov/Dec 2009)
High quality writing, subtly poetic, and giving the impression that you’re watching one part of a long, long story with real characters.
Jay Lake. To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves. (The New Space Opera 2).
Set in the same ‘post-Mistake’ setting of Lake’s ‘Torquing Vacuum’, which appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine a few weeks back, and which impressed me.
Jay Lake. Torquing Vacuum. (Clarkesworld 41, Feb 2010).
The backdrop, hinted at on a galactic level (they’re in a ‘post-Mistake’ universe), with genetic modification, and privilege and status to contend with, is a mature one. The same sex relationship is a refreshing change, and it’s an altogether satisfying read.
Interzone #208 January/February 2007
Jason Stoddard. Softly Shining in the Forbidden Dark. A far future drama with a strange
Interzone #203 March/April 2006
Paul di Filippo. The Furthest Schorr : 32 Fugues on the Paintings of Todd Schorr.
Interzone Number 194, September/October 2004
Only a couple of years ago things were looking rosy for the British SF magazine
Asimovs, October/November 2005
PDF/eBookMan version reviewed. Tom Purdom. Bank Run. Sabor Haveri, ultra-rich banker, finds his idyllic boating
Asimovs, June 2005
Ian McDonald. Little Goddess. The (PDF) issue gets off to a strong start with the
Year’s Best Science Fiction, 26th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2009
Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Aliette de Bodard, Charles Coleman Finlay, Daryl Gregory, Dominic Green, Elizabeth Bear, Garth Nix, Geoff Ryman, Gord Sellar, Greg Egan, Gwyneth Jones, Hannu Rajaniemi, Ian McDonald, James Alan Garner, James. L. Cambias, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Rosenblum, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul McAuley, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Ted Kosmatka
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.
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One. ed Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007.
Stories by : Neil Gaiman, Peter S. Beagle, Cory Doctorow, Ellen Klages, Christopher Rowe, Margo Langanan, Walter Jon Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Frances Hardinge, Tim Powers, Paolo Bacigalupi, Geoff Ryman, Jay Lake, Robert Charles Wilson, M. Rickert, Robert Reed, Kelly Link, Elizabeth Hand, Connie Willis, Paul Di Filippo, Gene Wolfe, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Ian McDonald
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.
Forbidden Planets, edited by Peter Crowther, DAW Books 2006
Overall, the quality of the stories is high, and a fine collection showcasing primarily British authors, although perhaps just a tad below the quality of last year’s ‘Constellations’.