Tim Sullivan. Yeshua’s Dog. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2014)
In the gospel according to Sullivan, Yeshua was a humble storyteller, not so much a prophet as in it for the profit.
Read moreIn the gospel according to Sullivan, Yeshua was a humble storyteller, not so much a prophet as in it for the profit.
Read moreA story which appears to end with several pages to go, athen the reader gradually realises that in fact the real story has even further to go…
Read moreDeep in space some scientific mumbo-jumbo involving ‘uber-symmetry’, ‘complementary particles’, and ‘superpositioning’ allows a man to confront his dead father.
Read moreLacking a bit of subtlety and texture – more like an Analog than an F&SF story, more Aerosmith than Patti Smith.
Read moreAn SF story that failed to engage, on two counts your honour : firstly, it’s mostly dialogue, secondly the protagonist keeps way too much close to his chest.
Read moreA grieving woman is visited by the close friend of her recently departed lover.
Read moreGentle and charming short, which starts off with the death from cancer of one of the main characters, but which nevertheless manages to be uplifting.
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 moreThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction finishes 2009 with an issue of their now standard bi-monthly size, but dated
Read moreAlbert E. Cowdrey. Inside Story. Retired Detective Sergeant Alphonse Fournet finds the lure of work, post-Katrina, too much to resist,
Read moreJames Stoddard. The First Editions. Fantasy, in which a bibliophile falls afoul of a fellow collector, a mage who turns
Read moreTim Sullivan. Way Down East. A very well crafted story which used the very alien to look at human alienation,
Read moreMaybe its me favouring fellow Brits, but Baxter and Glass are the pick of the bunch for me.
Read moreInterstitial. Paul J. McAuley. The Great Winter has forced humanity from then now-frozen Earth. The moon colonies have degenerated into
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