Paul Cornell. Tom. (Solaris Rising 2)
Entertaining take on (ahem) relationships between humans and aliens, through the bond between a human and a female of the aquatic Carviv race, which have arrived on Earth.
Paul Cornell. A New Arrival the the House of Love. (Solaris Rising 1.5)
Cornell bodaciously envisages a world in which almost anything is possible, and indeed the impossible
Paul Cornell. The Copenhagen Interpretation. (Asimovs, July 2011)
Further adventures in the ‘One of Our Bastards Is Missing’ storyline, with multi-dimensional gravitic testicular torture thrown in.
Year’s Best SF 15. (eds Hartwell/Cramer, Eos Books, 2010).
As ever, a strong collection of stories, albeit fairly ‘safe’ in terms of a relatively narrow range of sources.
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!
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three. (ed George Mann, Solaris 2009.)
The third in the Solaris series hits the street just as the word on those
Fast Forward 2. ed Lou Anders, pub Pyr 2008.
As with #1, another handsome collection of short SF from some of the biggest names in SF. Praise especially for making room for the lengthy Rosenbaum/Doctorow story.