Tony Ballantyne. Double Blind. (Solaris Rising 3)
Takes a look at testing drugs on paid volunteers, where the pay is high, but so are the risks. And when the risks get even higher…
Tony Ballantyne. The War Artist. (Further Conflicts).
A clever take on what the role of the war artist might (has?) become in the 21st century.
Interzone Number 191 September 2003
Gregory Benford. Naturals. Dawn is a young girl with an untouched genotype of great vintage.
Interzone Number 189 May/June 2003
Dominic Green. The Rule of Terror. Green returns to the type of near future, dark,
Interzone Number 178, April 2002
Richard Calder. Zarzuela. Calder has appeared in several issues of Interzone over the past couple
Interzone Number 174, December 2001
A good issue. Nothing quite hitting the heights, but do bear in mind I do judge by the highest of standards!
Interzone Number 172, October 2001
The Invisible Hand Rolls the Dice. Carolyn Ives Gillman. Lee Pao Nelson is a wealthy,
Interzone Number 168, June 2001
Babylon Sisters. Paul Di Filippo. Classy stuff from Di Filippo in a well written (as
Interzone Number 167, May 2001
Flickering. Ayerdhal. Credit to Interzone for including yet more non-English SF, in this case a
Interzone Number 163, January 2001.
Catch the Sleep Ship: the first science-fiction story of the century. George Zebrowski. Complements the
Interzone Number 162, December 2000.
The experienced writers provide solid fare in this issue, although with four stories having humorous undertones the feel of the issue is slightly lightweight as opposed to a festive feast with all the trimmings.
‘Fast Forward 1’ ed Lou Anders, pub Pyr 2007
An excellent collection of short SF. Several made it to the various Year’s Best collections, and a couple of others which were not selected would not have looked out of place. The volume starts well, is strong in the middle, and ramps up to a strong finish.
We Think, Therefore We Are’ ed Peter Crowther pub DAW Books 2009
Daw and Crowther provide the goods once again, in a pocket-sized collection that manages to 15 almost invariably top quality stories.
Subterfuge. Edited by Ian Whates, Newcon Press. 2008
Ian Whates latest collection under the NewCon imprint comes in a variety of flavours : paperback, hardback, and special (extra stories!) limited-edition, signed hardback. It is the latter of these reviewed here. And Whates has provided another strong collection, bigger than previous volumes, and worth looking out for. The standard of writing, and the invention in the stories, is almost uniformly excellent, and is strongly recommended
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed George Mann, 2007
Sixteen stories, of which I’d say 8 hit the mark. It’s a collection of fairly traditional SF, eschewing the new speculative, as perhaps might be expected with the authors for the most being well established. The majority of the stories could have been written anytime during the 1990s, making it a good, if safe collection, and a solid start.
Constellations, edited by Peter Crowther, DAW Books 2005
If it’s SFnal bang for your buck you’re after, you won’t get much better value for money than this during 2005.
Year’s Best SF 13. ed David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Eos Books 2008
Stories by : Bruce Sterling, Gene Wolfe., Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, James Van Pelt, Johanna Sinisalo, John Hemry, John Kessel, Kage Baker, Karen Joy Fowler, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Marc Laidlaw, Nancy Kress, Palle Juul Holm, Peter Watts, Robin Hitchock, Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Tim Pratt, Tony Ballantyne, William Shunn.
Year’s Best SF 9. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer. Eos, 2004
Stories by : Allen M. Steele, Angelica Gorodischer, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Gene Wolfe., Geoff Ryman, Gregory Benford, Joe Haldeman, Kage Baker, M Rickert, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Nigel Brown, Octavia E. Butler, Richard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero, Rick Moody, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Tony Ballantyne.