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!
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