Ken MacLeod. ‘The Entire Immense Superstructure : an Installation’. (Reach for Infinity)
An excellent, quirky piece from MacLeod, slightly out of kilter with the fairly standard narrative structure of most the anthology.
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Ken MacLeod. The Vorkuta Event. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction 29th Annual Collection)
Well-written, as you would expect from MacLeod, a post-war/Cold War setting (with an nod to Kim Philby) in which a student has related to him a story of Quatermassian horrors that foretell a far future conflict.
Read moreKen MacLeod. The Surface of Last Scattering. (trsf: The Best New Science Fiction)
An intelligent story from MacLeod, the first in this volume I’d tip for Year’s Best honours.
Read moreKen MacLeod. The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three. (Solaris Rising)
You always get some thought-provoking politics with MacLeod, and here he pops in some near-future background to give depth to a story involving an SF writer and an anthologist.
Read moreKen MacLeod. Earth Hour. (Tor.com, June 2011)
A tight near-future thriller, set in Australia, and with a strong tech/political background
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 more‘Fast Forward 1’ ed Lou Anders, pub Pyr 2007
An excellent collection of short SF. Several made it to the various Year’s Best collections, and a couple of others which were not selected would not have looked out of place. The volume starts well, is strong in the middle, and ramps up to a strong finish.
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