Liz Williams. The Marriage of the Sea. (Asimovs April/May 2015)
Looks at the fanaticism necessary to carry out an act beyond the ken of most people – although we don’t really need to use fantasy to explore that issue these days!
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Liz Williams
Liz Williams. The Lighthouse. (Solaris Rising 2)
Great read from Williams – a solitary lighthouse on an uninhabited planet, and a child who has to come to terms with the death of her mother and her place in the much bigger scheme of things.
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 moreLiz Williams. Spiderhorse. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009)
Short piece of the type Williams does so well, a strange, very strange world in which a young girl is stillborn, but for whom that it just one of many beginnings and endings.
Read moreInterzone Number 193 Spring 2004
This is the last David Pringle edited/published issue of Interzone, and the Pringle era ended with a whimper and not
Read moreInterzone Number 175, January 2002
Dominic Green. Blue Water, Grey Death. Non-genre story about two men who get in above their depth. They find out
Read moreInterzone Number 168, June 2001
Babylon Sisters. Paul Di Filippo. Classy stuff from Di Filippo in a well written (as you would expect) and nicely
Read moreInterzone, Number 160, October 2000
The Worms of Hess, Barrington J. Bayley. I approached this story with no little trepidation, based on reading Bayley’s short
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