Margo Lanagan. The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross. (Lightspeed #79 December 2016)
A dark, disturbing story and I hope that Lanagan feels better for getting it out of her system…
Margo Lanagan. The Mulberry Boys. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012)
I’ve a fondness for Lanagan’s stories, as they tend to a darkness and an exploration of the underbelly of fantasy/sf that other’s tend to leave alone. And she doesn’t disappoint here.
Margo Lanagan. The Miracle Aquilina. (The Years Best Science Fiction and Fantasy #5)
Another strong fantasy from Lanagan with strong female characters.
Margo Lanagan. Ferryman. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four)
An achingly affecting story..
Rich Horton. The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009.
A late arrival on my doorstep, and it’s taken much longer to finish the review than I had hoped. Note to self : faster dude, faster!
Jonathan Strahan. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Volume 3.
A collection of excellent stories.
Margo Lanagan. The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross. (The Years Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009).
A dark, disturbing glimpse of a near future, which starts with an almost Eraserhead-ish grotesquery.
Extraordinary Engines : the definitive Steampunk Anthology, ed Nick Gevers pub Solaris 2008
An excellent collection, with only a couple of weaker contributions. A couple are more fantasy than steampunk, but there is high quality writing throughout and a couple of stories that linger (Youmans, Lanagan and Lake) for some time.
The Starry Rift. ed Jonathan Strahan, Viking , 2008
The stories are almost without exception an excellent introduction to the genre, covering a wide spread and with something for most readers. If your kids are past the Harry Potter stage, then give them this hefty volume to help them take a step (or rather, a giant leap) in the right direction.
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One. ed Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007.
Stories by : Neil Gaiman, Peter S. Beagle, Cory Doctorow, Ellen Klages, Christopher Rowe, Margo Langanan, Walter Jon Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Frances Hardinge, Tim Powers, Paolo Bacigalupi, Geoff Ryman, Jay Lake, Robert Charles Wilson, M. Rickert, Robert Reed, Kelly Link, Elizabeth Hand, Connie Willis, Paul Di Filippo, Gene Wolfe, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Ian McDonald