Stephen King | Best SF

Jonathan Strahan. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Volume 3.

May 2, 2010August 22, 2012 Mark Watson 4 Comments Elizabeth Bear, Garth Nix, Greg Egan, Hannu Rajaniemi, Holly Black, Holly Phillips, Ian McDonald, Jeff VanderMeer, Joan Aiken, John Kessel, Kelly Link, Ken Scholes, Kij Johnson, M Rickert, Margo Lanagan, Maureen McHugh, Meghan McCarron, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul McAuley, Peter S. Beagle, Rachel Swirsky, Richard Bowes, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Stephen King, Ted Chiang, Ted Kosmatka

A collection of excellent stories.

F&SF

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2008

February 15, 2010November 24, 2012 Mark Watson 0 Comments Albert E Cowdrey, Carol Emshwiller, Geoff Ryman, Laurel Winter, M Rickert, Michael Swanwick, Robert Reed, Scott Bradfield, Stephen King, Steven Utley, Terry Bisson, Tim Sullivan

Albert E. Cowdrey. Inside Story. Retired Detective Sergeant Alphonse Fournet finds the lure of work, post-Katrina, too much to resist,

Anthologies

Otherworldly Maine. ed Noreen Doyle, Down East 2008

November 13, 2008February 16, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Daniel Hatch, Edgar Pangborn, Edward Kent, Elizabeth Hand, Gardner Dozois, Jack L. Chalker, Jeff Hecht, Jessice Reisman, John P. O'Grady, Karen Jordan Allen, Lee Allred, Lucy Suitor Holt, Mark Twain, Melanie Tem, Noreen Doyle, Scott Thomas, Stephen King, Steve Rasnic Tem, Thomas A. Easton, Tom Tolnay

The collection successfully brings together a litte bit of sf, a lot of speculative fiction, fantasy, horror and thrillers, but which all work together and which don’t leap out as being stories of that ilk, but simply good stories with a shared setting.

Anthologies

Wastelands – Stories of the Apocalypse ed John Joseph Adams. Night Shade Books, 2008.

February 12, 2008February 17, 2010 Mark Watson 1 Comment Carol Emshwiller, Catherine Well, Cory Doctorow, Dale Bailey, David Grigg, Elizabeth Bear, Gene Wolfe, George R. R. Martin, James Van Pelt, Jerry Oltion, John Langan, Jonathan Lethem, M Rickert, Nancy Kress, Neal Barrett Jr, Octavia E. Butler, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Bacigalupi, Richard Kadrey, Stephen King, Tobias S. Buckell

This is a very strong collection. Adams has trawled 25 years worth of high quality SF to put together the volume, and there’s an awful lot of good reading to be had.