Rand B. Lee. The Judging. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2014)
Whitsun, the red-robed man, and his companions, Francesco the burro and Treats the (talking) Husky, make a welcome return to F&SF.
Read moreWhitsun, the red-robed man, and his companions, Francesco the burro and Treats the (talking) Husky, make a welcome return to F&SF.
Read moreAn inventive post-apocalyptic setting just a little different from the norm.
Read moreGently humorous, with the characterisation of the various aliens just a bit different, and Rand B. not overdoing the xeno-language stuff this time…
Read moreSomething for everyone … pervs included. Duncan, Reaves and Bowes my favourites, giving the first half of the chunky, value for money, volume more grist to my reviewing mill.
Read moreGordon van Gelder : ‘some of the most daring linguistic gymnastics ever attempted’ in the pages of F&SF. Best SF : ‘Yarblockos’
Read moreSean McMullen. The Art of the Dragon. Dryly satirical tale in which a gigantic dragon appears and destroys the Eiffel
Read morePaolo Bacigalupi. Pump Six. The lead-out story in Bacigalupi’s collection ‘Pump Six and Other Stories’. Editor GvG warns that the
Read moreMarc Laidlaw. Childrun. Wandering bard Gorlen Vizenfirthe makes a re-appearance in F&SF after a ten year absence, no doubt good
Read moreTed Kosmatka. The Art of Alchemy. Excellent SF/science thriller. It has a sense of place (the dying little steel towns
Read moreFor me the issue gets progressively stronger, with the earlier stories not quite doing it for me to any great extent.
Read moreStories by : Don Sakers, Frederik Pohl, Greg Bear, Isaac Asimov, Joseph H. Delaney, Mary Gentle, Rand B. Lee, Robert Silverberg, Tanith Lee, Thomas Wylde
Read moreI am holding off on reading this volume, which I managed to get a copy of in 2002 on eBay. For the moment, here are the contents, and some story summaries for those stories read in other volumes.
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