Richard W. Strachan. After His Kind. (Interzone #259, Jul-Aug 2015)
You would give your right arm in order to avoid a lifetime alone on a planet wouldn’t you?
Jason Sanford. Duller’s Peace. (Asimovs September 2015)
Oppression and nano-level surveillance – resist or comply?
Jim Grimsley. The God Year. (Asimovs September 2015)
The residents of Muglet-on-Stumpings are to receive a visitation….
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (ed Rich Horton, Prime 2015)
Horton provides a representative sample of the Best SFF from across the various publication sources, print and online.
Brenda Cooper. Biology at the End of the World. (Asimovs September 2015)
Fairly routine scientist fiction, more of an Analog than an Asimovs story to my mind.
Asimov’s August 2015
A strong issue with lots of stories to like.
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.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The First Step. (Asimovs August 2015)
Time travel story, that is nice enough, as far as it goes.
Karl Bunker. Caisson. (Asimovs August 2015)
Bunker takes up back in time to the 1870s, and the building of The Brooklyn Bridge.
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas 2015. (ed Paul Guran, Prime 2015)
Another chunky volume for the bookshelf of the Year’s Best anthology collector.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015
Some strong stories in the issue, with David Gerrold the pick of the bunch.
Rob Chilson. A Turkey with Egg on His Face. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)
A second story to close the issue in which a time travel device is used in the quest for lurve.
Amy Sterling Casil. In the Time of Love. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)
A zero-sum equation featuring a douchebag, a hottie, and a cheated wife seeking tenure. Does a-b=c??
Paul McAuley. Wild Honey. (Asimovs August 2015)
A post-Collapse setting, but an unlikely one, with a bee keeper the main protagonist. But she’s not an ordinary apiarist, and they’re not ordinary bees…
Kelly Robson. Two Year-Man. (Asimovs August 2015)
Following her previous ‘challenging’ story, this is an ‘unsettling’ one…
Robert Grossbach. Entrepreneurs. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)
I started off really liking this story, the kind F&SF does well (or, rather, one of the many kinds it does well)
Nick Wolven. No placeholder for you, my love. (Asimovs, August 2015).
An intriguing love story from Wolven, set in an online virtual reality world, where Claire is looking for Mr. Right.
James Sarafin. Trapping the Pleistocene. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2015)
Beaver. Giant beaver. Prehistoric giant beaver.
Derek Kunsken. Pollen from a Future Harvest. (Asimovs July 2015)
Kunsken fits in just so much ‘extra’ into the story, when a more bog standard approach would have been a simple ‘scientist solves riddle’ story
Rudy Rucker. Petroglyph Man. (Asimovs July 2015)
A photo app that uses quantum physics to alter the images it takes, leads to some Really Bad Shit.
Will Ludwigsen. Acres of Perhaps. (Asimovs July 2015)
Stories within stories within issues within different magazines.