Robert Reed

Intriguing story from Reed. The narrator describes the rise to fame of an autistic young man, whose fame comes through a pseudo-science that becomes globally popular.

A clever take on human’s uploading to a virtual state, leaving their physical bodies behind – not always easy as it’s been done often enough before.

..truth be told, I was running out of steam towards the end, as Reed does takes the reader, and the characters, a long way (and back),

Another in Reed’s ‘Great Ship’ series, with two stories meshing against a very big backdrop.

A clever, understated story from Reed, that looks at those in our society who aren’t quite what they seem. Just who is the alien amongst us? And who is to decide?

A fairly bleak set up, with brain injury, bereavement, rape, HIV, climate change, and economic disaster, but the story, a good one, manages to end on a positive note.

A proper SF story by Robert Reed. A ‘Great Ship’ story by Robert Reed. A ‘Great Ship’ story by Robert Reed featuring Quee Lee and Perri!

Excellent short story (read it now!).

Short, dark look at politics, in a near-future in which a ‘voice of reason’ might appear to be able to head off the catastrophe into which the world appears to be heading.

The works of an author, long relegated to his past, find a new, robotic audience.

A complex story which doesn’t go for an obvious happy ending, and it’s one of Reed’s best for some time.

Reed on top form, and a shoo-in for a couple of next year’s Year’s Bests.

A tight, unsettling thriller

Another clever, throught-provoking story from Reed in Clarkesworld, following last year’s ‘Cull’.

New on Tor.com in August 2011 (link only)

Reed at his best – given the time to paint an epic story against a backdrop of immense time and space.

Follows on from ‘Stock Photos’ earlier in the issue, and sort of explains about that story, but opens up a whole range of new questions

Suburban lawn-mowing is interrupted by a nice young couple wanting to take some photographs.

A strange story – a blinded, maimed young man is one of a select few humans who are rescued from death by a greater force.

Clever story which looks at whether you can trust the world that is shown through the lens of a screen, and whether you are simply a character on someone else’s screen.

Reed taps into some modern memes, immersive online games, and a desire to gain instant wealth and celebrity with little real effort, in a wryly black story.

There’s a lot of issues handled in the story, all done through the impact of those issues on individuals, families and communities, done very cleverly, with strong characterisation.

Claustrophobic tension in an enclosed domed station, whose inhabitants are kept chemically happy by an AI doctor in human form.

A very lengthy look at running, but with an sfnal element.

Editor Sheila Williams mentions in the editorial that Reed is hard at work on a Young Adult novel, and, truth be told, there’s a touch of the YA about this story.

Looks at a globally catastrophic event through its impact on a family.

L’empereur est mort. Vive L’empereur!

Clever reflection on the current issues with the Iranian nuclear bomb-building programme. Reed postulates a world in which the USA keeps a very firm stranglehold on its nuclear bomb technology..