John Shirley. Weedkiller. (Interzone #260, September/October 2015)
Good to see Shirley still producing cyberpunky stories.
Reviewing short SF since 2000
Good to see Shirley still producing cyberpunky stories.
Stormland being the coast of the US a couple of decades hence, where climate change has created a near-permanent storm front, which has devastated the coast and Charleston in particular.
This issue got caught up in the big revamp of Best SF, and wasn’t reviewed
Dominic Green. The Rule of Terror. Green returns to the type of near future, dark,
A cracking little paperback, which every self-respecting SF reader should have at home. The pbk version I have also features a neat reflective pair of shades (which my scanner totally fails to scan!).
But, all in all, a bit of a curate’s egg. The early stories, and the final story, don’t quite fit IMHO. And with the lack of a ‘real’ introduction, and story intros, the extra size that this volume offers over ‘Mirrorshades’ hasn’t really be used to the full. A missed opportunity.