Navigator man.
3.5 out of 5
Naked flying granny.
2.5 out of 5
Look after the uploads, robot.
3 out of 5
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3690/full
Click DNA removal me.
3 out of 5
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3673/full
Blew it up. Woops.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3710/full
Farishta door.
3 out of 5
A bunch of very good stories and a bunch of average stories. Or what you’d expect from a random collection from a decent author – a stock standard 3.41 average. If you have all the well-known ones already, no need to get this unless you are a fan, apart from the fact it is [...]
Continue reading about The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson – Kim Stanley Robinson
Bloody bacteria, fix here maybe.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Discovering Life – Kim Stanley Robinson
Promethium vision holed.
3 out of 5
Ritual war heat.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Translator – Kim Stanley Robinson
Ectogene scandal.
3 out of 5
Bomb choices, no diff.
3 out of 5
http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1597801844/1597801844___6.htm
Continue reading about A Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions – Kim Stanley Robinson
Sleep pain.
3 out of 5
http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1597801844/1597801844___3.htm
Wu expedition game over.
4 out of 5
http://futurismic.com/2010/09/01/new-fiction-in-pacmandu-by-lavie-tidhar/
A little disappointing is the conclusion to this trilogy. Still a decent book, but not as interesting as the first two.
Part of the problem perhaps is that Dakota Merrick is rather a ghost here, and very much secondary to Lucas Corso and what is going on with him. Trader is around, too, occasionally, [...]
The Dune Encyclopedia – Frank HerbertAn overview of the places, people and technology in the Dune universe. This explains a lot of the detail of things that Herbert just mentions in passing, such as the scientists that invented shields, or space travel, or things like that.
It is very useful to gain a better understanding [...]
Continue reading about The Dune Encyclopedia – Frank Herbert
Boson rifled.
2.5 out of 5
http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/the-speed-of-time?j=24607638&e=john@sfsignal.com&l=15162145_HTML&u=282302383&mid=83886&jb=0
Dream dead.
2.5 out of 5
Skills upload space rebuild.
4 out of 5
http://futurismic.com/2010/08/02/new-fiction-or-we-will-all-hang-separately-by-nancy-jane-moore/
Continue reading about Or We Will All Hang Separately – Nancy Jane Moore
Just a million year exploitation job.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/the-fermi-paradox-is-our-business-model
Continue reading about The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model – Charlie Jane Anders
Only a 3.13. JPK as usual can be relied on for an interesting column.
The best of this lot is Bossert’s Shanghai space hack.
ASIMOVS415 : SUPERLUMINOSITY – Alan Wall
ASIMOVS415 : THE LOVELY UGLY – Carol Emshwiller
ASIMOVS415 : CRIMES FOLLIES MISFORTUNES AND LOVE – Ian Creasey
ASIMOVS415 : THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG SCIENCE – Pamela Rentz
ASIMOVS415 [...]
NaN. Mars Shangahi payback Project, Our Lady Thereof.
(call it 3.75)
3.5 out of 5
Brain interpreter motive.
3.5 out of 5
Time for bingo.
3 out of 5
Continue reading about The Battle Of Little Big Science – Pamela Rentz
Memory archive recovery.
3 out of 5
Continue reading about Crimes Follies Misfortunes And Love – Ian Creasey
Gliding sex accomodation.
3.5 out of 5
Alien bad tv.
2 out of 5
The same average as the last issue, but this time in the form of three average and one very good. Several non-fiction pieces again, touching on time travel and airships for example – elements of the couple of the stories.
Lightspeed 2 : No Time Like the Present – Carol Emshwiller
Lightspeed 2 : Manumission – Tobias [...]
Time trip drug user.
3 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/for-a-single-yesterday/
Continue reading about For A Single Yesterday – George R. R. Martin
Long accomodation.
3 out of 5
.http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-zeppelin-conductors-society-annual-gentlemens-ball/
Much cheaper in the past.
3 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/no-time-like-the-present/
Continue reading about No Time Like the Present – Carol Emshwiller
A reasonable start with two 3’s and two 3.5’s and some non-fiction.
Lightspeed 1 : I’m Alive I Love You I’ll See You in Reno – Vylar Kaftan
Lightspeed 1 : The Cassandra Project – Jack McDevitt
Lightspeed 1 : Cats in Victory – David Barr Kirtley
Lightspeed 1 : Amaryllis – Carrie Vaughn
Missed connections.
3 out of 5
Alien bad [...]
Getting a banner kid.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/amaryllis/
Monkeyman, dogmen moggie incarnation.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cats-in-victory/
Alien bad news hid.
3 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cassandra-project/
Continue reading about The Cassandra Project – Jack McDevitt
Missed connections.
3 out of 5
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/im-alive-i-love-you/
Continue reading about I’m Alive I Love You I’ll See You In Reno – Vylar Kaftan
Clearly one of the worst issues so far. Nothing of interest in any of it.
Clarkesworld 47 : Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time – Catherynne M. Valente
Clarkesworld 47 : Messenger – Julia M Sidorova
The Other Side.
2 out of 5
In the beginning was too far from the end.
2.5 out of 5
1 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_47
An interesting article on keeping a closed ecosystem going with a view to space travel.
Good to see stuff like the Kanakia, too.
Clarkesworld 46 : Beach Blanket Spaceship – Sandra McDonald
Clarkesworld 46 : The Association of the Dead – Rahul Kanakia
Vee-Real, Pops.
3 out of 5
Code Song sumith.
3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_07_10/
Code Song sumith.
3.5 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_07_10/
Continue reading about The Association Of The Dead – Raul Kanakia
Vee-Real, Pops.
3 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mcdonald_07_10/
Continue reading about Beach Blanket Spaceship – Sandra McDonald
Nothing makes it above ordinary here.
Apex Magazine 15 : Fair Ladies – Theodora Goss
Apex Magazine 15 : Four Is Me! With Squeeeeee! – Nick Mamatas
Apex Magazine 15 : Secret Life – Jeff VanderMeer
Back to Malo.
3 out of 5
State of ruin.
2 out of 5
Cleaning out the shadow chamber.
3 out of 5
2 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/
State of ruin.
2 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/08/short-story-four-is-me-with-squeeeeee-and-loler-by-nick-mamatas/
Continue reading about Four Is Me! With Squeeeeee! And LOLer! – Nick Mamatas
Back to Malo.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/08/short-story-fair-ladies-by-theodora-goss/
Nothing of interest here except the Sanford – apart from the fact that the last is styled as a puzzle, so may be a bit of fun.
Apex Magazine 14 : Apex Magazine 14 – Jason Sizemore
Apex Magazine 14 : Artifact – Peter Atwood
Apex Magazine 14 : Shrödinger’s Pussy – Terra LeMay
Apex Magazine 14 : Here [...]
Alien door test.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/07/short-story-end-of-the-line-a-puzzle-reprint-by-susannah-mandel/
Continue reading about End Of The Line: A Puzzle – Susannah Mandel
Remade girl brains.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/07/short-story-those-below-reprint-by-jeremy-c-shipp/
Kid memory maker machine.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/07/short-story-artifact-by-peter-atwood/
Kali cult population pressure sacrifice solution.
3.5 out of 5
A very mixed bag with one very good story by Jeff Carlson.
Apex Magazine 13 : Laika’s Dream – Holly Hight
Apex Magazine 13 : Sol Asleep – Naomi Libicki
Apex Magazine 13 : Long Eyes – Jeff Carlson
Apex Magazine 13 : The Thing in the Refrigerator That Could Stop Time – Matthew Kressel
Dead energy test.
2.5 out of [...]
Coffin space bribe.
3 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/06/short-fiction-sol-asleep-by-naomi-libicki/
Dead energy test.
2.5 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/06/short-fiction-laikas-dream-by-holly-hight/
Retrograde boy view.
3 out of 5
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3595/full
I am not sure what went wrong here, but this is not remotely up to the standard of De Pierres other books.
This series seems to sort of peter out here, focusing more on some subsidiary characters than the actual protagonist built up in the last couple of books. So not sure if this is [...]
What happens if serial immortality of the copy your memories into another body variety becomes available?
The rich and powerful will pay lots of money to have this facility available.
This is the story of the figurehead for the program – a secret service agent who is non of the above – but is mortally injured doing [...]
If you are wondering about the early Alastair Reynolds stories that you haven’t seen, and if they are any good, then worry no longer, they are. So this is worth getting.
It is just a shame that NESFA have no digital publishing program, because this would sell as many copies probably in a week or [...]
This is reasonable enough – a man finds himself inserted into ancient Greek legend in an Abraham Merritt fashion. Now, because this is Kuttner, there is a science fantasy twist to the story as to what the gods etc. really are.
A decent enough short novel.
3 out of 5
Articles on dodgy medical research and a review of Allen M. Steele’s Coyote Destiny.
ANALOG952 : THAT LEVIATHAN WHOM THOU HAST MADE – Eric James Stone
ANALOG952 : PUPA – David D. Levine
ANALOG952 : SPLUDGE – Richard A. Lovett
ANALOG952 : RED LETTER DAY – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
ANALOG952 : FLOTSAM – K.C. Ball
ANALOG952 : THE VIEW FROM THE [...]
Angelica lives advances.
3 out of 5
Computo says: half die. Fib?
4 out of 5
Space station emotion.
2.5 out of 5
Mary Shelley fire descent.
3.5 out of 5
Future gun warning, no basketball.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Red Letter Day – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Green problem.
2.5 out of 5
Adult sleep assertion.
3 out of 5
First swale or anything, Neuter Kimball.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made – Eric James Stone
“dead, and seven still living though wounded so severely they would not see the morrow. I stalked to the nearest, rested the point my sword in the hollow of the man’s throat. He took time to recognize my presence, to look up along the length of Toledo steel to my blood-covered face. A moan escaped [...]
“The sculpture had been mounted on a rock which, though far from the Northern Mountains of the continent, Chanter knew to be the tip of a mountain itself submerged in the underlying tricone-generated soil of the planet Masada. After studying the screen display for a moment longer, he turned to the other displays arrayed before [...]
“”Don’t be stupid!” the old man scolded. “Sentient creatures that’ve been on this planet maybe longer than we have. What might they know? Trees too. Thousand-year-old sequoias — centuries to process the hormonal messages in their cells! And creosote bushes — there’s a budding hive mind for you! Ravens and crows. Even coyotes. We don’t [...]
“”And what is Manilishi?”
“Isn’t that the big question–”
“I’m not asking for the full answer,” snaps Control. “You don’t know. I realize that. That makes two of us. Just tell me what you do know.”
“I’m a biocomputer able to perform hacks faster than the speed of light.”
“And how do you do that?”
“I don’t know.”
Control says nothing.
“I [...]
Continue reading about The Machinery of Light – David J. Williams
Lack of fat history.
3 out of 5
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7301/full/4651110a.html
Continue reading about A science-fiction fantasy – Paul Di Filippo
Reconstruction bugs me.
3 out of 5
http://shareable.net/blog/the-exterminators-want-ad
Continue reading about The Exterminators Want-Ad – Bruce Sterlin
“She thought of her father, frustrated because decades of SETI had revealed no messages. It was weird to believe this old man knew something no one else did. But something had happened to Sam Ferenzi in space, and though he looked a hundred years old, she knew from the biography she’d read he couldn’t be [...]
“Skye’s skin suit was a royal blue so hot it glowed. It covered every inch of her body, from the toes up, snugging around her like the smooth, thick hide of some water creature. The hood dangled in neat pleats behind her neck. With gloved hands, she reached back and grabbed it, [...]
“Androgeos had the irritating habit of replying to questions with variations of “Don’t worry about that,” shrugging off detailed explanation. The team was not to worry about interchange of disease, the problem had been solved millennia before. They were not to be curious about other alien beings. The alien humans’ ship moved; Victoria must not [...]
“Ruth Dunn’s voice was a whiplash of contempt. “I never before realized there could be Americans like you. Worrying about yourself, when thousands of men have died back there and are still dying.”
Terrell groaned inwardly. If he could only tell this girl the truth and convince her of it! But he had purposely left all [...]
Continue reading about Lost City of Burma 1 – Edmond Hamilton
“Abandoning the two-dimensional spread of twentieth-century cities, arcologies housed up to a million people comfortably on a thousand-acre base, in varied structures rising more than a mile into the sky, leaving the countryside to renew itself. Waste was removed through giant vertical chutes, letting the passive action of gravity do the work of carrying it [...]
One of the better magazine issues in a mostly disappointing year so far. There are two very good stories here. One by Rajaniemi, which is sort of a mashup of Murray Leinster and Terry Dowling, Finnish style, and also Gord Sellar and his worldbrane experiments. A decent zombie story by McHugh, too.
Subterranean [...]
Continue reading about Subterranean Online 14 – Jonathan Strahan
Vintage family producer.
3 out of 5
http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring-2010/fiction-what-we-take-when-we-take-what-we-need-by-daryl-gregory/
Continue reading about What We Take When We Take What We Need – Daryl Gregory
Baby universe Bulk brane ecocide ancestor message.
4 out of 5
http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring-2010/fiction-the-bodhisattvas-by-gord-sellar/
Booze, bears and quantum relatives plague.
4 out of 5
http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring-2010/fiction-elegy-for-a-young-elk-by-hannu-rajaniemi/
Continue reading about Elegy For A Young Elk – Hannu Rajaniemi
Stealing spacetime boyfriend Collider.
3 out of 5
http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring-2010/fiction-brownian-emotion-by-tom-holt/
How about we make a dodgy frontier?
3 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/9/0/32901/32901-h/32901-h.htm
Continue reading about The Merchants of Venus – A. H. Phelps
Fear-ridden biped colony.
2.5 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/9/0/32904/32904-h/32904-h.htm
Continue reading about The Huddlers – William Campbell Gault
One man military defense.
2.5 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/8/8/32889/32889-h/32889-h.htm
Atum future embarkation.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about A History of Terraforming – Robert Reed
Trip hyperbole.
3 out of 5
Continue reading about Amelia Pillar’s Etiquette For The Space Traveler – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Spec Colony rival.
3.5 out of 5
Knight future.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Jaguar House In Shadow – Aliette de Bodard
Get the other cat.
3 out of 5
Subspaced.
2.5 out of 5
Magmoid attack, Doctor Jones.
3.5 out of 5
Married an erotic professional golddigger, killed himself, tried again.
3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Android Who Became A Human Who Became An Android – Scott William Carter
Trouble, Venus needs posto.
4 out of 5
Lunar Winkler Smith.
3 out of 5
Continue reading about Fly Me To the Moon – Marianne J. Dyson
Not humane medicine.
2.5 out of 5
Songeen of the elder race, I think I like you.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/7/0/32709/32709-h/32709-h.htm
“”All right. Here’s the truth. I got busted for doing drugs at a party. One rotten joint — and if I’d been eighteen already like everybody else it would’ve been legal anyway. So the judge gave me community service.”
“Good,” Sam said. “I don’t have time for lies. What would you rather be doing — besides [...]
Lunaroo stuck.
3 out of 5
Cilia ness.
2.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Doctor Alien’s Five Empty Boxes – Rajnar Vajra
Exactly the same as the last issue, four above average stories, one average, and one poor. This one tailing off towards the end.
The whole bunch of reviews is here this time, however.
Best story is Jim Hawkins Zambian tale, easily. Maybe he can give another one a go before 40 years pass again.
Interzone 227 : [...]