M. Rickert. The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2011)
A strange and unsettling tale, a sort of bastard offspring of David Lynch and Tim Burton (I know they are both male, which makes that conceit even worse…)
Jonathan Strahan. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Volume 3.
A collection of excellent stories.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2009
Elizabeth Hand. The Far Shore. A middle-aged man, ballet dancer initially, ballet teacher after an
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2008
Albert E. Cowdrey. Inside Story. Retired Detective Sergeant Alphonse Fournet finds the lure of work,
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2008
Robert Reed. Reunion. F&SF regular Reed hit top form with the previous issue’s ‘Five Thrillers’,
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2007
David Marusek. Osama Phone Home. Published earlier in MIT’s Technology Magazine, and it reads like
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2007
Not having bothered with the lengthy Hughes story, as is my wont, there wasn’t a huge amount to get to grips with, with Reed, Rickert and Goulart all providing stories of the ilk that they regularly provide for F&SF ie well written and OK for what they are, but none of them a humdinger.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2006
Matthew Hughes. Bye the Rules. Another of Guth Bandar’s regular appearances in F&SF. M.Rickert. The
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2005
Matthew Hughes. Thwarting Jabbi Gloond. A prequel to the adventures of Hengis Hapthorn to which
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2005
Paul Di Filippo. The Secret Sutras of Sally Strumpet. Similar in style to PDF’s humourous
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2004
Lisa Goldstein. Finding Beauty. Fairy Tale which looks at the Sleeping Beauty story from Prince
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2004
Matthew Hughes. Mastermindless. The protagonist realises with a start that his facial features and his
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2003
For me the issue gets progressively stronger, with the earlier stories not quite doing it for me to any great extent.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2003
A so-so issue, some way below their best, and bit below the average high quality.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003
One of the occasional F&SF special issues devoted to a particular author, which I for
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2003
I read this some weeks ago, but managed to mislay the copy before writing the
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2003
Buy a copy from Amazon. M. Shayne Bell. Anomalous Structures of My Dreams. When the
Year’s Best SF 14. ed David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Eos Books 2009
Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Ann Halam, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, Jason Sanford, Jeff VanderMeer, Karl Schroeder and Tobias S. Buckell, Kathleen Ann Goonan, M Rickert, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Swanwick, Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Robert Reed, Rudy Rucker, Sue Burke, Ted Chiang, Ted Kosmatka, Vandana Singh.
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two. ed Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2008.
Stories by : Ted Chiang, Peter S. Beagle, Charles Stross, Greg Egan, Daryl Gregory, Jeffrey Ford, Holly Black, Ted Kosmatka, Alex Irvine, Daniel Abraham, Nancy Kress, Bruce Sterling, Theodore Goss, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Baxter, Ken Macleod, Susan Palwick, Michael Swanwick, M. Rickert, Tony Daniel, Elizabeth Hand, Chris Roberson, Elizabeth Bear, Kelly Link.
Wastelands – Stories of the Apocalypse ed John Joseph Adams. Night Shade Books, 2008.
This is a very strong collection. Adams has trawled 25 years worth of high quality SF to put together the volume, and there’s an awful lot of good reading to be had.
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
Year’s Best SF 9. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer. Eos, 2004
Stories by : Allen M. Steele, Angelica Gorodischer, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Gene Wolfe., Geoff Ryman, Gregory Benford, Joe Haldeman, Kage Baker, M Rickert, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Nigel Brown, Octavia E. Butler, Richard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero, Rick Moody, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Tony Ballantyne.