Peter S. Beagle. Underbridge. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 6.)
Urban fantasy in which a 50+ academic desperately seeking tenure finds things get a little … grimm.
Peter S. Beagle. Olfert Dapper’s Day. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 2012)
A verbose story about one Dr. Olfert Dapper that could easily be confused with a Matthew Hughes creation. Good news indeed for those F&SF readers who are suffering from a Hengis Hapthorne Deficiency Syndrome.
Peter S. Beagle. The Way It Works Out and All. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2011)
Nice homage to Avram Davidson, SF writer and editor of F&SF back in the early 1960s
Rich 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!
Eclipse 3. (ed Jonathan Strahan).
Nicely complements the Strahan/Dozois New Space Opera anthology series, starting with several stories of the contemporary, speculative type.
Peter S. Beagle. Sleight of Hand. (Eclipse 3).
Heart-rending and believable.
Peter S. Beagle. King Pelles the Sure. (Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009)
S’okay, but little beyond the ‘be careful what you wish for’ trope.
Jonathan Strahan. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Volume 3.
A collection of excellent stories.
Peter S. Beagle. Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel. (Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 3).
A beautifully written story – an angel is sent to take on the role of the artist’s muse.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2006
Albert E. Cowdrey. Revelation. The bucolic pair, Dr. Dorshin, psychiatrist, and Professor (Dr.) Drea(d) both
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2005
Chock full of protein for the brain, with only a bit of excess fat and carbohydrate. To burn off those calories I’m off for a bit of ‘fast-paced’ Asimov’s action…..
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2004
A Best SF Review-LiteTM, on account of my having read this issue about a month
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.
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
Nebula Awards Showcase 2008. ed Ben Bova, ROC, 2008
There’s a lot in here, as usual, with the Kelly story giving lots of SF bang-for-buck : if you haven’t read ‘Burn’ yet, then this is your chance so to do, and get some other high quality reading, and the professional writer’s take on what the 3 years leading up to 2008 meant to them.