Peter Watts. A Niche. (Tesseracts 3, 1994.)
Hard SF at the bottom of an oceanic abyss.
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Peter Watts. ZeroS. (Infinity Wars, ed Strahan, Solaris Books 2017)
There’s a great balance of characterisation, tech, socio-political background and story here.
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Peter Watts. Hotshot. (Reach for Infinity)
Watts closes this excellent anthology with another top notch story, a dense, hard SF story..
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Peter Watts. The Colonel. (Tor.com)
This reviewer is a little cross with Tor.com
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Peter Watts. Firebrand. (Twelve Tomorrows)
Some semi-scatalogic humour to leave the reader of the anthology with a warm glow (unless you have a relative who went up in a warm glow) with which to remember the collection.
Read morePeter Watts. Malak. (Engineering Infinity)
A semi-autonomous aerial military robot has his instruction set subtly tweaked. Thought provoking.
Read moreYear’s Best SF 15. (eds Hartwell/Cramer, Eos Books, 2010).
As ever, a strong collection of stories, albeit fairly ‘safe’ in terms of a relatively narrow range of sources.
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 morePeter Watts. The Eyes of God. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009).
A clever look at how a technological advance could impact on aspects of humanity that have been with us forever.
Read moreThe New Space Opera 2. (ed Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos 2009).
A big book, with a huge amount of top quality SF.
Read morePeter Watts. The Things. (Clarkesworld Magazine #40, Jan 2010).
Watts gets into the mind of the creature that was John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ (via Richard Matheson’s original story).
Read morePeter Watts. The Island. (New Space Opera 2)
Ultra-hard SF, ultra-far future.
Read moreThe Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Two, ed George Mann, Solaris 2008
The first volume in this new series from Solaris Books, was a safe and solid volume, half of whose 16
Read moreYear’s Best SF 13. ed David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Eos Books 2008
Stories by : Bruce Sterling, Gene Wolfe., Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, James Van Pelt, Johanna Sinisalo, John Hemry, John Kessel, Kage Baker, Karen Joy Fowler, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Marc Laidlaw, Nancy Kress, Palle Juul Holm, Peter Watts, Robin Hitchock, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Tim Pratt, Tony Ballantyne, William Shunn.
Read moreYear’s Best Science Fiction, 23rd Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2006
Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Bruce Sterling, Chris Beckett, Chris Roberson, Daryl Gregory, David Gerrold, David Moles, Dominic Green, Elizabeth Bear, Gene Wolfe., Gwyneth Jones, Hannu Rajaniemi, Harry Turtledove, Ian McDonald, James Patrick Kelly, Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, Joe Haldeman, Ken MacLeod, Liz Williams, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Swanwick, Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Stephen Popkes, Vonda N McIntyre, William Sanders
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