Tom Purdom. Day Job. (Asimovs April/May 2015)
A techie with empathy and emotional control deficits finds an immersive video game a perfect place to respond to the frustrations of everyday life..
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Tom Purdom. A Stranger from a Foreign Ship. (Asimovs September 2013)
A story with an interesting conceit that rather misses the opportunity it offered, and ends up in hectic pell-mell thriller with the protagonist mind-hopping quickly enough to disorientate this reader, let along himself.
Read moreTom Purdom. Warlord. (Asimovs April/May 2013)
A ‘fast paced adventure’ of the kind that Purdom often produces that don’t really do it for me. But if you are wanting to read more about Harold the Human, here’s your chance…
Read moreTom Purdom. Bonding with Morry. (Asimov’s April/May 2012)
Not a whole lot that hasn’t been covered already (a long time ago) by Asimov in his robot stories.
Read moreTom Purdom. Golva’s Ascent. (Asimovs March 2012)
Fast-paced adventure. Golva is a feline-type creature, one of two intelligenct races, on whose planet a party of humans has arrived.
Read moreTom Purdom. A response from EST17. (Asimovs, April/May 2011).
A story with potential, but which doesn’t really deliver.
Read moreTom Purdom. Warfriends. (Asimovs, December 2010).
A ‘long-awaited’ followup to an Ace Double written some 40 years ago.
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A bit of a curate’s egg of an issue.
Read moreTom Purdom. Haggle Chips. (Asimovs July 2010).
There’s a lot of dialog, and the cardboard characters are moved about to help the plot along, and it is rather a long way short of the quality you normally get in Asimovs.
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A strong collection, with the Purdom story somewhat of a struggle.
Read moreAsimovs, March 2008
Brian Stableford. Following the Pharmers. Stableford has published several stories looking at the consequences in developments in biotechnology, and here
Read moreAsimovs, August 2007
Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling. Hormiga Canyon. You’d expect a collaboration by these two authors to hit the g-(whizz) spot,
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PDF/eBookMan version reviewed. Tom Purdom. Bank Run. Sabor Haveri, ultra-rich banker, finds his idyllic boating trip, in which his splitting
Read moreAsimovs, February 2004
Mike Resnick. Travels with My Cats. Resnick furnishes a story the like of which you would normally expect to see
Read moreAsimovs, August 2003
Maybe its me favouring fellow Brits, but Baxter and Glass are the pick of the bunch for me.
Read moreAsimovs, June 2003
A strong collection of stories by Cory Doctorow, Daniel Abraham and Susan Fry, David Marusek, Jack Skillingstead, James Patrick Kelly, John Varley, Lawrence Person, Tom Purdom.
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 2002
Eleanor Arnason. Knapsack Poems. A tale of the Goxhat, an interesting multi-bodied entity with a further multiplicity of limbs and
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, August 2001 (Peanut Press edition)
Robert Charles Wilson being the pick of the bunch for me.
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 2001 (Peanut Press edition)
Reflections. Robert Silverberg. Silverberg’s editorial wryly comments on poor grammar and on the latest haute cuisine trends. However, he rather
Read moreAsimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 2000.
Reflections. Robert Silverberg The latest technological developments in slowing the speed of laser light give Silverberg pause to reflect on
Read moreScience Fiction : The Best of the Year 2006 Edition – edited by Rich Horton, Prime Books, September 2006
Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Daniel Kaysen, Douglas Lain, Howard Waldrop, James Patrick Kelly, James Van Pelt, Joe Haldeman, Leah Bobet, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Swanwick, Robert Reed, Stephen Leigh, Susan Palwick, Tom Purdom, Wil McCarthy.
Read moreYear’s Best SF 5. David G. Hartwell. Eos Books 2000
Stories by : Barry N. Malzberg, Brian Aldiss, Brian M. Stableford, Chris Beckett, Chris Lawson, Cory Doctorow, Curt Wohleber, Elisabeth Malartre, Fred Lerner, G. David Nordley, Gene Wolfe, Geoff Ryman, Greg Egan, Hiroe Suga, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucy Sussex, Mary Soon Lee, Michael Bishop, Michael Swanwick, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Reed, Sarah Zettel, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Tom Purdom
Read moreYear’s Best SF 3. David G. Hartwell. Harper Prism 1998
Brian Stableford, Gene Wolfe., Geoffrey A. Landis, Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Jack Williamson, James Patrick Kelly, John C. Wright, Katherine McLean, Kim Newman, Michael Moorcock, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul Levinson, R. Garcia y Robertson, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, S.N. Dyer, Terry Bisson, Tom Cool., Tom Purdom, William Gibson
Read moreYear’s Best Science Fiction, 25th Annual Collection. Gardner Dozois. St. Martins Griffin, 2008
As ever, chock full of high quality SF, with the annual summation providing SF with an ongoing reference and reading tome which we should not take for granted. Here’s to the next 25 years! Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Benjamin Rosenbaum and David Ackert, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Chris Roberson, David Moles, Elizabeth Bear, Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, James Van Pelt, John Barnes, Justin Stanchfield, Kage Baker, Keith Brooke, Ken MacLeod, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Neal Asher, Pat Cadigan, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Baxter, Ted Chiang, Ted Kosmatka, Tom Purdom, Una McCormack, Vandana Singh
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