Pat Cadigan. Report Concerning the Presence of Seahorses on Mars. (Reach for Infinity)
Inventive setting and nice narrative from Cadigan, as a young woman narrates a visit to their Martian colony by a representative from Earth.
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Pat Cadigan. The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi. (Edge of Infinity).
Cadigan gets the solar system-constrained themed collection off to a fine start, with a narrator a calamarically long way from home…
Read morePat Cadigan. You Never Know. (Solaris Rising)
As we begin to realise what is about to happen/has happened, the tension mounts to give a very focussed human perspective on a global event
Read morePat Cadigan. Cody. (trsf: The Best New Science Fiction)
Sort of cyberpunk as it might happen now, as opposed to the cyberpunk as we imagined it in the 80s.
Read morePat Cadigan. The Taste of Night. (Is Anybody Out There?)
A young woman living on the streets is struggling with an sensory overload – is it synesthesia, or a sixth sense?
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 morePat Cadigan. Don’t Mention Madagascar. (Eclipse Three, ed. Jonathan Strahan.)
Suffers a tiny bit through being the third story in a row that opens the volume with a relatively contemporary setting and light touch in terms of the SF/F elements, leaving this reader still waiting to properly take off.
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