Archive for July, 2011
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late July
A month in which we can read two new stories by Catherynne M Valente has to be a Good Thing. I prefer the one posted at Tor.com. Publications Reviewed Asimov’s, September 2011 Analog, October 2011 Tor.com, July 2011 Strange Horizons, July 2011 Fantasy Magazine, July 2011 Lightspeed, July 2011 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, July 2011 Asimov’s, […]
Posted: July 29th, 2011 under Lois Tilton, Short Fiction.
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Russell Letson reviews James S.A. Corey
Just about everything in the hefty, appropriately titled Leviathan Wakes comes in twos, starting with the authors, since James S.A. Corey is the pen name for Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck. The large-type cover blurb from George R.R. Martin calls the novel a space opera, though the authors chose to exploit an underused niche in […]
Posted: July 20th, 2011 under Books.
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Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-July
I look at Subterranean’s Summer issue to test my tolerance for YA fiction and read Ellen Datlow’s anthology Naked City, where I give the Good Story award to work by Kit Reed, Lavie Tidhar and Jeffry Ford. Publications Reviewed Subterranean, Summer 2011 Naked City, edited by Ellen Datlow Subterranean, Summer 2011 A special YA issue […]
Posted: July 16th, 2011 under Lois Tilton, Short Fiction.
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Tim Pratt reviews Nick Mamatas
Sensation by Nick Mamatas is a political satire and a meditation on the nature of reality reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, exploring the secret history of an age-old war between a hive-mind of hyperintelligent spiders and their implacable mindless enemies, a species of parasitic wasp. (The entirety of human history is either driven by that […]
Posted: July 13th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
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Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early July
Featuring a couple of new online offerings, as well as some of the usual first-of-the-month ezines. The Good Story award goes, as often before, to Clarkesworld. Publications Reviewed Jabberwocky #6, July 2011 Journal of Unlikely Entomology, May 2011 Clarkesworld #58, July 2011 GigaNotoSaurus, July 2011 Abyss & Apex, 3rd quarter 2011 Apex Magazine #26, July […]
Posted: July 7th, 2011 under Lois Tilton, Short Fiction.
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Faren Miller reviews Daryl Gregory
Raising Stony Mayhall should add to Daryl Gregory’s reputation as a dazzling innovator, despite being set in an alternate history whose starting point comes from the realm of pulpish horror: the zombie invasion in Night of the Living Dead, taken as literal truth in an alternate history that begins in the ’60s. Announcing the book’s […]
Posted: July 6th, 2011 under Books.
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