Jeffrey Ford. The Winter Wraith. (Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2015)
It’s a cold, bleak winter, and the task of taking out the dead christmas tree appears to be not quite as straightforward as it might…
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Jeffrey Ford. A Natural History of Autumn. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2012)
Ford looks to the East for inspiration for a story that gradually reveals itself to be a horror story, in which all is not what it seems, and a night of passion in a remote retreat becomes a much darker affair.
Read moreRich 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!
Read moreJeffrey Ford. Daltharee. (Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009)
A sort of Horton Hears a Who for smart grownups. Not really, but tenuous enought for a weak pun on the editor’s name.
Read moreEclipse 3. (ed Jonathan Strahan).
Nicely complements the Strahan/Dozois New Space Opera anthology series, starting with several stories of the contemporary, speculative type.
Read moreJeffrey Ford. The Coral Heart. (Eclipse 3).
A warts and all take on the traditional sword and sorcery fantasy milieu, but with the heroicism removed.
Read moreThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2005
Chock full of protein for the brain, with only a bit of excess fat and carbohydrate. To burn off those calories I’m off for a bit of ‘fast-paced’ Asimov’s action…..
Read moreFantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 2002
Charles Coleman Finlay. A Democracy of Trolls. Not an obvious collective noun for the rock-dwelling sun-hating trolls in this story.
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