Will McIntosh. A Thousand Nights Till Morning. (Asimovs August 2015)
A clever story with a protagonist who is far from the standard heroic type, and lots to like in it.
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Will McIntosh. Dancing With a Stranger in the Land of Nod. (The End Has Come, 2015)
The third of McIntosh’s ‘Land of Nod’ series, in which he created a memorable plague that leaves most of the population rigid, immobile, save for the nodding of their heads.
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Will McIntosh. Dancing with Batgirl in the Land of Nod. (The End is Now)
Another strong, nicely observed take on his ‘nodding virus’ setting.
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Will McIntosh. Dancing with Death in the Land of Nod. (The End is Nigh)
A quite vivid and memorable setting to open (and close) the story – a drive-in movie theater, and heart-breaking but affirming ending.
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Will McIntosh. Scout. (Asimovs April/May 2014)
From a forthcoming novel, ‘Defenders’, which is already optioned by Warner Brothers. It’s a small sequence with an interesting backdrop – people on Earth struggling against an alien invasion.
Read moreWill McIntosh. Possible Monsters. (Asimovs June 2012)
A very alien presence offer the chance for a returning hometown zero to get some perspective on what we has lost, hasn’t lost, and what he might get back again.
Read moreWill McIntosh. Incompatible. (Interzone #234, May-June 2011)
McIntosh comes up trumps with a vividly realised protagonist and a setting.
Read moreWill McIntosh. Frankenstein, Frankenstein. (Asimovs, Oct/Nov 2010)
The second best story featuring a Tesla-powered Frankenstein monster at Chicago’s World’s Fair that I have read in the past couple of months.
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