Mary Robinette Kowal. Rockets Red. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016)
Story in the same setting as Kowal’s Hugo winning ‘Lady Astronaut of Mars’
Read moreStory in the same setting as Kowal’s Hugo winning ‘Lady Astronaut of Mars’
Read moreLengthy near-future police thriller in which an AI which is the detective’s constant companion, is removed from the police station.
Read moreClever playoff between an AI and a crewmember both suffering from memory loss.
Read moreAs ever, a strong collection of stories, albeit fairly ‘safe’ in terms of a relatively narrow range of sources.
Read moreAn excellent issue. Rusch and Popkes perhaps the slightly weaker of the contributions, Broderick and Reed edging ahead of Blumstein, Zumsteg and Kowal.
Read moreAs 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 moreStories 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
Read moreThe first volume in this new series from Solaris Books, was a safe and solid volume, half of whose 16
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