Andy Duncan. Close Encounters. (Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2012)
A heart-warming take on the finale years of one Buck Nelson, a famous abductee/contactee.
Reviewing short SF since 2000
A heart-warming take on the finale years of one Buck Nelson, a famous abductee/contactee.
A well written lesbian love story with a touch of something that qualifies it for inclusion in a fantasy anthology. Just.
A pretty damn good collection. Steele and Martinez were a tad below an otherwise high standard.
Has there been a better issue of Asimovs in recent years?
Stories by : Alastair Reynolds, Allen M. Steele, Andy Duncan, Brenda W. Clough, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Charles Stross, Chris Beckett, Dan Simmons, Eleanor Arnason, Geoff Ryman, Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy, Ian R. Macleod, James Kelly, Jim Grimsley, Ken MacLeod, Michael Blumlein, Michael Cassutt, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Paul Di Filippo, Paul McAuley, Robert Reed, Simon Ings, William Sanders.
The latest volume in the handsome Nebula Award series is in the extremely capable hands of Ellen Datlow, and a publisher who knows how to present a book to extremely good effect.
As with recent issues, a handsome book to mark the Nebulas, although the stories themselves aren’t going to echo down the SF Hall of Fame in generations to come.