This is the same set of stories listed in the Year-To-Date by Rating page, grouped by reviewer and magazine, to use for following a favorite reviewer.
· K. Tempest Bradford – io9
· Lois Tilton – Locus Online
· Sam Tomaino – SFRevu
· @SFEditorsPicks – Anthology Editors
· Gardner Dozois – The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection
· Rich Horton – The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016
· Neil Clarke – The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1
K. Tempest Bradford
Total Stories: 41; Estimated Time: 15h:25m (278K words)
Stories with the same magazine have the same shading, which alternate by magazine.
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Builders Of Leaf Houses by Catherine Wells Time: 1h:04m (19K words) Issue: Analog 12|15 On Dray's planet, the natives in Motherlove's village meet humans at an inconvenient time, for they are coping with a number of challenges. Marta and Shipner mean well, but they have problems of their own, and communication is difficult. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 KTB |
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Paris, 1835 by Bill Johnson Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Analog 12|15 A lady time-traveler falls into bad company in nineteenth-century Paris. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFEP |
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The Master's Voice by Brendan DuBois Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Analog 12|15 Today is Jake's 7th birthday (13 Earth years), and the celebration formally makes him a man. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB |
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Forgiveness by Leah Cypess Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Asimov's 02|15 A high-school girl's abusive boyfriend comes back to school equipped with an anti-violence chip. No one understands how despite everything she still loves him. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 KTB |
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How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Post-Digital Age by Fran Wilde Time: 21m (7K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15 After a grave injury reporting on a future US war, Eleanor's eyes were replaced with advanced prosthetics--but now she seems to be seeing ghosts. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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The New Mother by Eugene Fischer Time: 1h:04m (19K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15 Tess is writing an article about a new disease that causes women to give birth to clones of themselves. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB |
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Duller's Peace by Jason Sanford Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Asimov's 09|15 A young girl lives with her grandfather in a near-future totalitarian south-east Asian country whose rulers use an airborne nanotechnology to track everyone's thoughts. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFRevu:4 |
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The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Life After Death by Sandra Mcdonald Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15 Ghost of an adjunct professor haunting her department is inundated by victims of a campus shooting. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 KTB |
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With Folded RAM by Brooks Peck Time: 06m (2K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15 A team infiltrates a space station just as two researchers are about to create the ultimate AI. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB |
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Cassandra by Ken Liu Time: 18m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 102 Nameless lady villain explains how misguided Superman is for trying to stop her. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 KTB |
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Slowly Builds An Empire by Naim Kabir Time: 21m (7K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 102 In a future Tokyo, Shinsuke Takinami is an outcast because he can't use the augments that normal people use to communicate with each other--he has to talk. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [1] Recommended By: KTB |
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This Wanderer, in the Dark of the Year by Kris Millering Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 105 A war reporter investigates a possible alien landing in Hungary although her previous reporting has made her a lot of enemies there. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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Further North by Kay Chronister Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 106 Two Turkish sisters struggle to survive in an Alaska ravaged by giant mutant worms. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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When Your Child Strays From God by Sam J. Miller Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 106 Fundamentalist mom takes networking drug so she can track down her missing teenage boy. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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Security Check by Han Song Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 107 A man in a future, security obsessed America longs for freedom, but lacks the courage to defy the security guards at the subway entrance. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB |
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The Servant by Emily Devenport Time: 50m (15K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 107 A servant girl on a generation ship plots to overthrow the evil and corrupt rulers. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [1] Recommended By: KTB |
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Egg Island by Karen Heuler Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 109 In a fairly near future, Audra visits the mid Pacific to watch how the ecosystem is evolving to incorporate plastics. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [1] Recommended By: KTB |
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Xia Jia Time: 09m (3K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 110 The narrator is a librarian who acquires a mysterious book of poems and becomes obsessed with finding information about the author. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [0] Recommended By: KTB |
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Entanglements by David Gerrold Time: 39m (12K words) Issue: F&SF 05.06|15 A writer gets a device that lets him examine alternate universes. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFRevu:5 SFEP |
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The Winter Wraith by Jeffrey Ford Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 All alone at home during bad winter weather, Henry wants to get rid of the dead Christmas tree in the living-room. It drops needles and ornaments and there just seems to be something wrong with it. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB LTilton |
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Headwater LLC by Sequoia Nagamatsu Time: 11m (3K words) Issue: Lightspeed 56 Headwater Bottled Refreshments sells bottled water with literally magical properties. Yoko works in the home office and knows that the mythical, aquatic, Kappa on the logo isn't so mythical. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB |
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And the Winners Will Be Swept Out to Sea by Maria Dahvana Headley Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57 In the modern world, a water spirit mourns the loss of her mortal lover. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander Time: 37m (11K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57 Rhye a bitter ex-supersoldier, fights to rescue Rack, her hacker partner in crime, after the criminals they're working for kill Rack's body while his mind is in cyberspace. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB RHorton |
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Things You Can Buy for a Penny by Will Kaufman Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57 If you are desperate, visit the burned-out cottage by moonlight, find the forbidden well where the wet gentleman lurks. If you give him a penny, he might grant your wish. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 KTB LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Universe, Sung in Stars by Kat Howard Time: 06m (2K words) Issue: Lightspeed 59 Orrey maker decides to try working with real stars and galaxies. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB SFRevu:4 |
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Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind by Erica L. Satifka Time: 02m (736 words) Issue: Lightspeed 61 Maddie's list of things to do before the end of the world tells a sad, sweet story. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFRevu:4 |
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Influence Isolated, Make Peace by John Chu Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61 Cyborg struggles to prove he can fit into society now that the war is over. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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Madeleine by Amal El-Mohtar Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61 Madeline is having an adverse reaction to an experimental drug--she revisits episodes in her past. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 KTB SFEP |
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Saltwater Railroad by Andrea Hairston Time: 52m (16K words) Issue: Lightspeed 62 In 1835, a mysterious young woman washes ashore on an island off the Georgia/Florida coast where a group of runaway slaves have built a community. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 KTB |
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Ghosts of Home by Sam J. Miller Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Lightspeed 63 A young woman with a bank job appeasing spirits who haunt foreclosed homes meets an attractive young male spirit who causes her to question the rules. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFEP |
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Werewolf Loves Mermaid by Heather Lindsley Time: 08m (3K words) Issue: Lightspeed 64 Humorous slipstream tale about a romance between a werewolf and a mermaid in the real world. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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The Language of Knives by Haralambi Markov Time: 08m (3K words) Issue: Tor.com 02/04/15 A man butchers the corpse of his husband to cook a meal for the gods, as required by his culture's funeral rites. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB SFEP |
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Acrobatic Duality by Tamara Vardomskaya Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: Tor.com 02/11/15 Kim and Alana are two bodies sharing a single mind, which makes them world-class gymnasts--as long as they keep it a secret. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri Time: 21m (6K words) Issue: Tor.com 03/04/15 The narrator's uses the family time machine to try to reach some closure with mother who abandoned him in 1963. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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The Ways of Walls and Words by Sabrina Vourvoulias Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Tor.com 04/15/15 In Mexico in 1562, Bienvenida meets an imprisoned Spanish girl her own age, befriends her, and looks for the magic to set her free. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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Elephants and Corpses by Kameron Hurley Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Tor.com 05/13/15 Nev can jump to bodies of the freshly dead, or to bodies he keeps on ice, but his latest acquisition causes no end of trouble. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB |
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Zapped by Sherwood Smith Time: 46m (14K words) Issue: Tor.com 05/27/15 Laurel is starting highschool in a new town, and although she's smart enough not to talk about her telekinetic ability, she can't resist using it sometimes. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB |
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At the End of Babel by Michael Livingston Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Tor.com 07/01/15 In a future authoritarian America that doesn't tolerate cultural or linguistic diversity, Tabitha Hoarse Raven returns to the pueblo of Acona to finish the sacred dance her father died trying to complete. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB |
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Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma Time: 31m (9K words) Issue: Tor.com 07/27/15 Lola (aka Eliza) has had problems dealing with people ever since she was a child, but she's always been good with snakes. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFEP |
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Please Undo This Hurt by Seth Dickinson Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Tor.com 09/16/15 A woman paramedic and her best friend fear that despite their best efforts, they end up causing more pain than they relieve. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [0] Recommended By: KTB RHorton |
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Variations on an Apple by Yoon Ha Lee Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Tor.com 10/14/15 Surreal science fantasy, in which three goddesses come to Paris, prince of a mathematical Troy, and ask him to decide to whom to award an apple. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB LTilton |
Lois Tilton
Total Stories: 47; Estimated Time: 21h:52m (394K words)
Stories with the same magazine have the same shading, which alternate by magazine.
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Samsara and Ice by Andy Dudak Time: 11m (3K words) Issue: Analog 01.02|15 On a distant planet, every few years, two soldiers awake and try to kill each other. The locals think they're gods, and no one seems to remember what the war was about. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton |
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The Audience by Sean Mcmullen Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: Analog 06|15 The Javelin reaches a rogue planet 36 light-days from Earth, but the crew finds something terrible there. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton GDozois NClarke |
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Sleeping Dogs by Adam-Troy Castro Time: 1h:10m (21K words) Issue: Analog 07.08|15 An old man, long in hiding on a remote, tropical world, struggles to cope with the arrival of a figure from the worst part of his past. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton SFRevu:5 |
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It is Healing, It is Never Whole by Sunny Moraine Time: 11m (3K words) Issue: Apex 75 When the souls of the suicides tumble out of the low, gray clouds, the narrator is one of the ones who collect them, contain them, and load them onto the train. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton |
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Inhuman Garbage by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Time: 1h:24m (25K words) Issue: Asimov's 03|15 A young woman is murdered in Armstrong City, Luna, and both the police and organized crime want to understand why. Captivating. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 GDozois |
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Paul and His Son by Joe M. Mcdermott Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15 In a near-future NYC, 14-year-old Paul Jr. keeps running away from home, and Paul Sr. is willing to go to great lengths to stop him. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton |
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Mutability by Ray Nayler Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Asimov's 06|15 In a comfortable future world, a man meets a woman from a past he doesn't remember. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton RHorton |
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Petroglyph Man by Rudy Rucker Time: 18m (6K words) Issue: Asimov's 07|15 Julio, a young man visiting Hawaii with his wife, explores his company's technology that modifies photos based on the user's thoughts. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton |
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Two-Year Man by Kelly Robson Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Asimov's 08|15 Mikkel isn't very bright, but he cleverly supplements his janitorial job by scavenging useful items his superiors discard and bringing them home to his wife--then one day he brings home a mutant baby. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton NClarke |
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Walking to Boston by Rick Wilber Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15 A man takes his Alzheimer's-afflicted wife to Boston to fulfill a promise he made when they were young. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 SFEP |
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Empty by Robert Reed Time: 27m (8K words) Issue: Asimov's 12|15 Lerner Pong is an AI on a mission to the outer solar system following a huge war between machines that has left the inner solar system in ruins. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton NClarke |
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The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred by Greg Egan Time: 1h:04m (19K words) Issue: Asimov's 12|15 The situation on Vesta has reached the point where certain people flee to Ceres in suspended animation. Anna, the new Director of Ceres, tries to understand the refugees better as relations with Vesta continue to deteriorate. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFEP |
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Unearthly Landscape by a Lady by Rebecca Campbell Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Beneath Ceaseless Skies 184 <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: LTilton SFEP RHorton |
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Ether by Zhang Ran Time: 48m (15K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 100 One dreary day follows another for the underemployed, middle-aged narrator until a mysterious figure in black fleeing the police stops to trace a figure in the palm of his hand. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton |
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Meshed by Rich Larson Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101 In near-future Seattle, a basketball scout finds an unusually talented high school senior, but there's one catch. This story is uplifting and painful all at once. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton GDozois NClarke |
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Coming of the Light by Chen Qiufan Time: 27m (8K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 102 Zhou is an ad man for a Chinese marketing firm, and he has to find a way to get people to buy a new photo technology that has unusual capabilities. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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Let Baser Things Devise by Berrien C. Henderson Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 103 In alternate-history America, an uplifted chimp gets certified as a person and goes to the moon. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Empress in Her Glory by Robert Reed Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 103 Aliens decide to rule the Earth indirectly, picking a middle-aged woman from an insurance company to be their intermediary. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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An Evolutionary Myth by Bo-Young Kim Time: 27m (8K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 104 What if people's bodies evolved during a single lifespan, changing form according to the actions and the character of each individual? Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton |
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In the Queue for the Worldship Munawwer by Sara Saab Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 110 In 2139 Beiruit, Suraya sends a sequence of e-mails that summarize her team's progress saving as many people in Lebanon as possible from a coming global catastrophe. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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Telling Stories to the Sky by Eleanor Arnason Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: F&SF 01.02|15 Heartwarming tale of a beggar girl in a long-forgotten city who tells stories to the wind. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton |
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A User's Guide to Increments of Time by Kat Howard Time: 09m (3K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15 Siobhan and Finn are chronomancers, who can manipulate the passage of time. Former lovers, they hate each other now, and use their magic against each other. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Mantis Tattoo by Paul M. Berger Time: 28m (8K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15 In this clever historical fantasy, set in the Pleistocene, young Nudur gets called to serve Mantis, and Mantis sets him a difficult task to prove himself. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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Paradise and Trout by Betsy James Time: 09m (3K words) Issue: F&SF 07.08|15 The ghost of a ten-year-old boy tries to find his way to paradise. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton |
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The Body Pirate by Van Aaron Hughes Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: F&SF 07.08|15 Symbiotic intelligences combining a bird-like entity with a humanoid one suffer problems when progress allows each bird to control multiple humanoids. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton |
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Don't Move by Dennis Etchison Time: 11m (4K words) Issue: F&SF 09.10|15 Surreal tale of a young man who gets off a bus in the middle of nowhere and the mysterious girl who follows him. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The City of Your Soul by Robert Reed Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 You take a plane flight to Seattle, but disturbing news from Brazil bothers everyone on the flight. And beyond. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Winter Wraith by Jeffrey Ford Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 All alone at home during bad winter weather, Henry wants to get rid of the dead Christmas tree in the living-room. It drops needles and ornaments and there just seems to be something wrong with it. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB LTilton |
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A Murmuration by Alaistair Reynolds Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Interzone 257 (Hard SF) Scientist studying flock behavior of starlings gets astonishing results but struggles to get her paper accepted. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFRevu:4 NClarke |
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The Worshipful Company of Milliners by Tendai Huchu Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Interzone 257 (Urban fantasy) Kitsi is a feline spirit called into existence to create the invisible hats that give writers their inspirations. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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Midnight Funk Association by Mack Leonard Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Interzone 259 Bunchess Taylor, a black musician in Detroit, learns that someone or something is poisoning Detroit's music when his assistant, "the white boy," buys an extra-sensitive piece of equipment. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton |
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The Plausibility of Dragons by Kenneth Schneyer Time: 21m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 11|15 In which Malik, a Moor from Cordoba, and Fara, a lady knight, unite to hunt a powerful and uniquely deceitful dragon. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton |
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Things You Can Buy for a Penny by Will Kaufman Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57 If you are desperate, visit the burned-out cottage by moonlight, find the forbidden well where the wet gentleman lurks. If you give him a penny, he might grant your wish. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 KTB LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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Documentary by Vajra Chandrasekera Time: 05m (2K words) Issue: Lightspeed 58 Somebody is making a documentary about Kamaria, who is a were-helicopter. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton |
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The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal by Chaz Brenchley Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61 A group of Englishmen sharing an evening in a pub near a canal on "Old Mars" meet a stranger who knows their secret and makes them an offer. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton GDozois RHorton |
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The Smog Society by Chen Qiufan Time: 15m (5K words) Issue: Lightspeed 63 A lonely old Chinese man gets involved in the fight against smog--without government approval. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton NClarke |
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The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club by Nike Sulway Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Lightspeed 65 What if rhinoceroses behaved like human beings and talked about their upcoming extinction during book club meetings? Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton RHorton |
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My Last Bringback by John Barnes Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (SF) Layla, an expert on restoring the memories of people suffering from Alzheimer's, finds herself restoring her own memories--for better or for worse.. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton RHorton |
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Pictures From The Resurrection by Bruce Sterling Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (SF) Fort Lucky, Texas, has survived the super-soldiers called "zombies," but Calderon thinks it won't be long now. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton |
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Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts By Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Old Venus Lady Ida's visit to Venus was memorialized by the beautiful floral papercuts she made there, but this sensational story revels the secret of the real purpose of her visit. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFRevu:5 GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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Planet Of Fear by Paul McAuley Time: 37m (11K words) Issue: Old Venus On an alternate Venus, communist Russians investigate mysterious disappearances and worry that the Americans are behind it. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton GDozois |
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The Tumbledowns Of Cleopatra Abyss by David Brin Time: 52m (16K words) Issue: Old Venus Jonah is a young man in a matriarchal human society hiding at the bottom of an ocean on a far-future Venus whose terraforming seems to be going wrong after thousands of years. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton NClarke |
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The Graphology of Hemorrhage by Yoon Ha Lee Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Operation Arcana <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: LTilton RHorton |
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The Thyme Fiend by Jeffrey Ford Time: 46m (14K words) Issue: Tor.com 03/11/15 In 1915 Ohio, 14-year-old Emmett's night terrors get worse after he finds a dead body in an abandoned well. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton |
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The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman Malik Time: 1h:14m (22K words) Issue: Tor.com 04/22/15 Salman pursues the truth behind stories his grandfather told him about an impoverished princess he used to know back in Pakistan and the Jinn that protected her. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton SFEP |
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Islands off the Coast of Capitola, 1978 by David Herter Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Tor.com 07/08/15 You are a lonely ten-year-old boy living in an old house with your mom when a man claiming to be your uncle arrives and strange things start to happen. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton |
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Variations on an Apple by Yoon Ha Lee Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Tor.com 10/14/15 Surreal science fantasy, in which three goddesses come to Paris, prince of a mathematical Troy, and ask him to decide to whom to award an apple. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB LTilton |
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Some Gods of El Paso by Maria Dahvana Headley Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Tor.com 10/28/15 In a magical, 2020s Texas, Lorna and Vix sell sex, but they mostly trade emotions; they'll take what you don't want, and sell the kind you do. As long as the law doesn't catch them. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton |
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It Takes More Muscles To Frown by Ned Beauman Time: 28m (9K words) Issue: Twelve Tomorrows 2016 The narrator, a blond American man, works for a Mexican oil company and leaks information to the cartels. He beats their lie detector tests using special implants in his face. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton GDozois |
Sam Tomaino
Total Stories: 80; Estimated Time: 35h:29m (639K words)
Stories with the same magazine have the same shading, which alternate by magazine.
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Unmother by Lex Wilson Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Analog 01.02|15 A unit of an intelligent alien parasite in a human brain finds evidence that the host's immune system is on to them. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent by Adam-Troy Castro Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Analog 04|15 An alien general takes an interest in the unfortunate Lars, who has the dullest job on the starship. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Sleeping Dogs by Adam-Troy Castro Time: 1h:10m (21K words) Issue: Analog 07.08|15 An old man, long in hiding on a remote, tropical world, struggles to cope with the arrival of a figure from the worst part of his past. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton SFRevu:5 |
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The Tarn by Rob Chilson Time: 04m (1K words) Issue: Analog 07.08|15 In a far-future Earth, a whole town goes digging for treasure--the Arbiter is sure it's a scam, but who is behind it? Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Evangelist by Adam-Troy Castro Time: 18m (5K words) Issue: Analog 11|15 A man hits bottom and visits a soup kitchen run by aliens pitching their own religion. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Footprints In The Snow by Bud Sparhawk Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Analog 12|15 Alberto seems to be a caricature of a bigot. He hates the family of spider-like alien refugees who've moved in next door and won't give them a fair chance. But first impressions can be misleading--this story rewards readers who persist. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 SFRevu:4 |
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The Museum Of Modern Warfare by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Time: 21m (7K words) Issue: Analog 12|15 The narrator, now a diplomat, returns to a planet where she and other humans had allied with natives to win a bloody victory. She's there to visit a new war museum and investigate complaints about it. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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All Who Tremble by A.A. Balakovits Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Apex 74 The neighbors in their Russian village fear and loathe the strange family in their whirring house, but the daughter dreams of a better life. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Going Endo by Rich Larson Time: 10m (3K words) Issue: Apex 74 A sensitive technician works with heavily-bioengineered people (tough exos and the brainy endos inside them) who hunt for pirates in the Oort cloud. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Watergirl by Rudy Rucker And Marc Laidlaw Time: 40m (12K words) Issue: Asimov's 01|15 Del and his friend Zep are near-future surf bums living in Hawaii. Zep finds them work with a wealthy developer using nanotechnology to create programmable waves. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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On the Night of the Robo-Bulls and Zombie Dancers by Nick Wolven Time: 1h:10m (21K words) Issue: Asimov's 02|15 In a nightmarish near-future New York where wake-up pills mean no one ever sleeps, Gabriel investigates strange behavior by his financial trading company's AIs. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:5 |
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Red Legacy by Eneasz Brodski Time: 33m (10K words) Issue: Asimov's 02|15 In an alternate Cold War, Marya works on a secret genetics project for Stalin, but her goals aren't quite what the Russians think they are. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Inhuman Garbage by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Time: 1h:24m (25K words) Issue: Asimov's 03|15 A young woman is murdered in Armstrong City, Luna, and both the police and organized crime want to understand why. Captivating. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 GDozois |
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Military Secrets by Kit Reed Time: 10m (3K words) Issue: Asimov's 03|15 When the Navy reports Jessie's father is missing-in-action, life at school becomes very strange. Surreal. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters—H'ard and Andy are Come to Town by Michael Swanwick And Gregory Frost Time: 29m (9K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15 Andy and H'ard are magical con men who offer to "help" a drought-ridden, depression-era, southwest town. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 |
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What I Intend by Robert Reed Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15 A wealthy investor decides to pour resources into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, with unexpected results. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Our Lady of the Open Road by Sarah Pinsker Time: 54m (16K words) Issue: Asimov's 06|15 One of the last live bands struggles to do performances in a mostly-online world. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 SFRevu:4 SFEP |
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Like Native Things by Mary Robinette Kowal Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Asimov's 07|15 Tilda is a middle-aged German scientist researching technology to link human minds with animals--she's been very successful, but today something goes very wrong. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 |
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Duller's Peace by Jason Sanford Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Asimov's 09|15 A young girl lives with her grandfather in a near-future totalitarian south-east Asian country whose rulers use an airborne nanotechnology to track everyone's thoughts. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFRevu:4 |
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Searching for Commander Parsec by Peter Wood Time: 11m (3K words) Issue: Asimov's 09|15 A single mom learns that the 50s-style radio show her lonely young son loves listening to is coming from a radio station that no longer exists. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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The Molenstraat Music Festival by Sean Monaghan Time: 48m (15K words) Issue: Asimov's 09|15 On an arid planet, an former musician--now a painter in his old age--attempts to help a damaged but extremely talented young musician find the strength to heal herself. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 SFRevu:5 |
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The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette De Bodard Time: 1h:48m (32K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15 The Empress of the Dai Viet Interstellar Empire assigned a team to track down her rebellious daughter, who disappeared thirty years ago. Now the scientist leading the investigation as also disappeared. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 SFEP GDozois |
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The Hard Woman by Ian Mcdowell Time: 51m (16K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15 French woman in the 1880s old West can become invulnerable, at some cost, and makes a living as a stage performer--until something goes wrong in Tombstone. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 |
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Walking to Boston by Rick Wilber Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15 A man takes his Alzheimer's-afflicted wife to Boston to fulfill a promise he made when they were young. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 SFEP |
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Of Apricots and Dying by Amanda Forrest Time: 28m (8K words) Issue: Asimov's 12|15 In a near-future Pakistan, 19-year-old Asma has to choose between a high-tech job in the city or staying home to help her family. A complex story, and there is more to things than meets the eye. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 SFEP |
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The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary by Kij Johnson Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 100 All the imaginary creatures a young person could want to make apartment life more pleasant. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight by Aliette De Bodard Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 100 A key scientist in the Dai Viet interstellar empire has died, and three people who were close to her mourn her passing in different ways. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 GDozois |
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The Last Surviving Gondola Widow by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101 In an alternate history ~1880s steampunk+magic Chicago, a woman detective for the Pinkerton's investigates someone who might have been involved in a terrorist attack on Chicago. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Coming of the Light by Chen Qiufan Time: 27m (8K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 102 Zhou is an ad man for a Chinese marketing firm, and he has to find a way to get people to buy a new photo technology that has unusual capabilities. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild by Catherynne M. Valente Time: 51m (16K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 102 Surreal tale about the loves and losses of Violet Wild, a girl from the purple country, who crosses the spectrum accompanied by a unicorn, a sorrow, and a herd of time squirrels. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 RHorton |
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Let Baser Things Devise by Berrien C. Henderson Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 103 In alternate-history America, an uplifted chimp gets certified as a person and goes to the moon. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Empress in Her Glory by Robert Reed Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 103 Aliens decide to rule the Earth indirectly, picking a middle-aged woman from an insurance company to be their intermediary. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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Mrs. Griffin Prepares to Commit Suicide Tonight by A. Que Time: 24m (7K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 104 In 2335, a lonely old woman tries to get her robot to help her commit suicide. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [1] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Forestspirit, Forestspirit by Bogi Takács Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 105 In the far future, a military system left-over from a war hides in a forest until a boy asks it for help. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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The Hunger Tower by Pan Haitian Time: 27m (8K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 106 An aircraft crashes in the desert on an unpopulated planet, and the passengers struggle to survive. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [1] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Today I Am Paul by Martin L. Shoemaker Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 107 Alzheimer's patient's family can't visit her very often, so they buy a robot to fool her into thinking they're visiting her. The robot tells the story. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:5 GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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Summer at Grandma's House by Hao Jingfang Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 109 In China, a failing student decides to spend the summer with his grandmother, an eccentric scientist. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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In the Queue for the Worldship Munawwer by Sara Saab Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 110 In 2139 Beiruit, Suraya sends a sequence of e-mails that summarize her team's progress saving as many people in Lebanon as possible from a coming global catastrophe. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Man from X by Gregor Hartmann Time: 07m (2K words) Issue: F&SF 01.02|15 Franden wants to be a writer, but he's hoping to immigrate to a less populous, less competitive world. If he can just fool immigration into believing he's really an artist. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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A Small Diversion On the Road to Hell by Jonathan L. Howard Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15 Humorous story about a bartender on another planet having a slow day until a time traveler turns up. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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A User's Guide to Increments of Time by Kat Howard Time: 09m (3K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15 Siobhan and Finn are chronomancers, who can manipulate the passage of time. Former lovers, they hate each other now, and use their magic against each other. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Mantis Tattoo by Paul M. Berger Time: 28m (8K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15 In this clever historical fantasy, set in the Pleistocene, young Nudur gets called to serve Mantis, and Mantis sets him a difficult task to prove himself. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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What Has Passed Shall In Kinder Light Appear by Bao Shu Time: 1h:20m (24K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15 A Chinese man recounts his life, in which the events of history as we know them appear to be coming in reverse. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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A Turkey with Egg on His Face by Rob Chilson Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: F&SF 05.06|15 Modest, young Missouri man has "friends" who bully him, a "girlfriend" who doesn't know he likes her, and a time machine. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:5 |
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Entanglements by David Gerrold Time: 39m (12K words) Issue: F&SF 05.06|15 A writer gets a device that lets him examine alternate universes. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFRevu:5 SFEP |
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Dixon's Road by Richard Chwedyk Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: F&SF 07.08|15 A stranger from the spaceport visits the house of a famous poet, preserved from the original terraforming of the planet. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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The Curse of the Myrmelon by Matthew Hughes Time: 29m (9K words) Issue: F&SF 07.08|15 A fantasy-world shipping clerk thinks discrepancies in his accounts are the result of a curse, so he hires Cascor, a sort of magic-using private detective. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 |
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Don't Move by Dennis Etchison Time: 11m (4K words) Issue: F&SF 09.10|15 Surreal tale of a young man who gets off a bus in the middle of nowhere and the mysterious girl who follows him. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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Ten Stamps Viewed Under Water by Marissa Lingen Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: F&SF 09.10|15 Two young sisters in a fantasy world wait out a plague at home. One of them collects stamps to pass the time, but what she really wants is to find a way to help find a magical solution. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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The Adventure of the Clockwork Men by Ron Goulart Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: F&SF 09.10|15 In a humorous 1903 steampunk London, a detective who specializes in the supernatural hunts a criminal mastermind who has kidnapped his girl. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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The Bone War by Elizabeth Bear Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: F&SF 09.10|15 Bijou the artificer makes animated skeletons, but she's never been asked to apply her magic to a dinosaur skeleton before. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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We're So Very Sorry for Your Recent Tragic Loss by Nick Wolven Time: 32m (10K words) Issue: F&SF 09.10|15 In a world where everything is connected, a bug causes the system to think that thirty-five-year-old Meg has suffered a death in the family, and everything in her daily life, from her pillow to the ads on the sidewalk, starts commiserating with her. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Cleanout by Naomi Kritzer Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 The narrator and her two sisters have come to clean out their comatose mother's house and select items they might want to remember her by. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Gypsy by Carter Scholz Time: 1h:18m (24K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 With Earth falling apart, a secret group launches a mission to Alpha Centauri in 2041. Launching is only half the problem; getting there is the real challenge. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 GDozois NClarke |
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Her Echo by Kj Kabza Time: 02m (615 words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 In the style of an old legend, this story tells about what happened to Old Wise Woman's reflection, shadow, and echo after she died. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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It's All Relative at the Space-Time Café by Norman Birnbach Time: 06m (2K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 Bohr meets his ex, Jenny, at the café, where they reminisce about love and science in terms of puns. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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The City of Your Soul by Robert Reed Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 You take a plane flight to Seattle, but disturbing news from Brazil bothers everyone on the flight. And beyond. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Fabulous Follicle by Harvey Jacobs Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 Cute slipstream story about Morris the barber, who takes on some rather non-traditional clients in order to raise money to open his own shop. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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A Murmuration by Alaistair Reynolds Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Interzone 257 (Hard SF) Scientist studying flock behavior of starlings gets astonishing results but struggles to get her paper accepted. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFRevu:4 NClarke |
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Blossoms Falling Down by Aliya Whiteley Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Interzone 257 (SF) Katsumi's first night/she meets a navigator/in the haiku room. The endless journey/of the generation ship/for him, she brightens. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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The Worshipful Company of Milliners by Tendai Huchu Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Interzone 257 (Urban fantasy) Kitsi is a feline spirit called into existence to create the invisible hats that give writers their inspirations. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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After His Kind by Richard W. Strachan Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: Interzone 259 The sole survivor of a colony ship nevertheless raises a host of rather strange children, and today he hosts a special ceremony at "the worm farm." Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Things You Can Buy for a Penny by Will Kaufman Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57 If you are desperate, visit the burned-out cottage by moonlight, find the forbidden well where the wet gentleman lurks. If you give him a penny, he might grant your wish. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 KTB LTilton SFRevu:4 |
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The Way Home by Linda Nagata Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Lightspeed 58 A squad of US soldiers is trapped in Hell, and every hour, a demon materializes and tries to kill them. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 |
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The Universe, Sung in Stars by Kat Howard Time: 06m (2K words) Issue: Lightspeed 59 Orrey maker decides to try working with real stars and galaxies. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB SFRevu:4 |
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We'll Be Together Forever by Joseph Allen Hill Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 59 A dysfunctional couple decides to make a love potion to prevent themselves from breaking up. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind by Erica L. Satifka Time: 02m (736 words) Issue: Lightspeed 61 Maddie's list of things to do before the end of the world tells a sad, sweet story. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFRevu:4 |
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Helping Hand by Claudine Griggs Time: 05m (2K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61 When Alexandria's propulsion unit fails on a solo space mission, she knows she's going to die if she can't think of something--it's just a matter of time. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Crazy Rhythm by Carrie Vaughn Time: 24m (7K words) Issue: Lightspeed 62 In 1925, a young woman assistant works on the set of a silent movie about World War I. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [0] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Given the Advantage of the Blade by Genevieve Valentine Time: 08m (3K words) Issue: Lightspeed 63 Repeated runs of a simulation in which women from fairy tales fight to the death with knives. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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The Ninth Seduction by Sean Mcmullen Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Lightspeed 64 A goblin craftsman who makes things of beauty for his cruel elvish mistress learns to make her weapons from the mundane world. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 |
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Bones Of Air, Bones Of Stone by Stephen Leigh Time: 38m (12K words) Issue: Old Venus Tomio returns to Venus to confront his ex-lover fifteen years after she left him following a diving accident that cost him his legs. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:5 |
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Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts By Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Old Venus Lady Ida's visit to Venus was memorialized by the beautiful floral papercuts she made there, but this sensational story revels the secret of the real purpose of her visit. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFRevu:5 GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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By Frogsled And Lizardback To Outcast Venusian Lepers by Garth Nix Time: 58m (18K words) Issue: Old Venus Fifty-year-old Kelvin has a nice business flying shuttle runs on Venus, but the Terran Navy calls him back to service for a rescue mission in the heart of the Roar, the most dangerous place on Venus. A fun, uncomplicated read. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Greeves And The Evening Star by Matthew Hughes Time: 39m (12K words) Issue: Old Venus Bartie (accompanied by his accomplished butler Greeves) is shanghaied to Venus by an old school friend who is studying the local wildlife and needs a bit of help. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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The Drowned Celestial by Lavie Tidhar Time: 37m (11K words) Issue: Old Venus Out of cash and out of luck, Colt is playing cards in a Venusian saloon when a dying desperado, chased by robots, breaks up the game and gives him a clue about a sunken treasure. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Billy Tumult by Nick Harkaway Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Stories for Chip Billy Tumult is a psychic surgeon, who operates in virtual reality disguised as a wild-west cowboy. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 GDozois |
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For Sale: Fantasy Coffin (Ababuo Need Not Apply) by Chesya Burke Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Stories for Chip In this fantasy story, eleven-year-old Ababuo lives in modern-day Ghana. She's a "safe-journey" child, which means she has a magical power but also bears a curse. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Jamaica Ginger by Nalo Hopkinson And Nisi Shawl Time: 28m (9K words) Issue: Stories for Chip In a steampunk New Orleans, Plaquette works for miserly "Msieur" building watches and automata. The "George" she's working on could gain her freedom, if it doesn't ruin her first. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 SFEP |
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When Two Swordsmen Meet by Ellen Kushner Time: 07m (2K words) Issue: Stories for Chip Three vignettes about what happens when two swordsmen meet. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 |
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Total Stories: 34; Estimated Time: 18h:50m (339K words)
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Blue Ribbon by Marissa Lingen Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Analog 03|15 Out in the Oort cloud, teen-age Tereza and her sister just won a 4H club competition, but when the kids try to return to the space station, no one answers. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFEP |
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Paris, 1835 by Bill Johnson Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Analog 12|15 A lady time-traveler falls into bad company in nineteenth-century Paris. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFEP |
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Songs in the Key of You by Sarah Pinsker Time: 09m (3K words) Issue: Asimov's 01|15 In the near future, all the cool Highschool kids wear "Kurzwailers" on their wrists, which play music that's customized for them alone. Aisha's family is too poor for her to have one, but she does have a gift for creating music. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFEP |
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The Unveiling by Christopher Rowe Time: 15m (5K words) Issue: Asimov's 01|15 A middle-aged foreman whose crew does menial jobs on planet Castellon finds something unusual during a routine job cleaning statues meant to be unveiled the next day. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFEP |
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Our Lady of the Open Road by Sarah Pinsker Time: 54m (16K words) Issue: Asimov's 06|15 One of the last live bands struggles to do performances in a mostly-online world. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 SFRevu:4 SFEP |
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The End of the War by Django Wexler Time: 41m (13K words) Issue: Asimov's 06|15 In deep interplanetary space of some other solar system, war is fought between squads of self-replicating robots while their human operators engage in almost-friendly conversation. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 SFEP |
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Pollen from a Future Harvest by Derek Künsken Time: 1h:23m (25K words) Issue: Asimov's 07|15 In the 24th Century, Major Okonkwo investigates the suspicious death of her husband in the context of research on a secret portal that links 11 years into the past and the future. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFEP |
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Caisson by Karl Bunker Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Asimov's 08|15 A young man helping build the Brooklyn Bridge in 1871 copes with a friend who's too interested in the fossils they find on the riverbed. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [0] Recommended By: SFEP |
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Wild Honey by Paul Mcauley Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Asimov's 08|15 In post-Collapse America, Mel operates a hive of augmented bees and trading honey and medicines with locals--until a crew of bandits arrives. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFEP NClarke |
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The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette De Bodard Time: 1h:48m (32K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15 The Empress of the Dai Viet Interstellar Empire assigned a team to track down her rebellious daughter, who disappeared thirty years ago. Now the scientist leading the investigation as also disappeared. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 SFEP GDozois |
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Walking to Boston by Rick Wilber Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15 A man takes his Alzheimer's-afflicted wife to Boston to fulfill a promise he made when they were young. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 SFEP |
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Of Apricots and Dying by Amanda Forrest Time: 28m (8K words) Issue: Asimov's 12|15 In a near-future Pakistan, 19-year-old Asma has to choose between a high-tech job in the city or staying home to help her family. A complex story, and there is more to things than meets the eye. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 SFEP |
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The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred by Greg Egan Time: 1h:04m (19K words) Issue: Asimov's 12|15 The situation on Vesta has reached the point where certain people flee to Ceres in suspended animation. Anna, the new Director of Ceres, tries to understand the refugees better as relations with Vesta continue to deteriorate. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFEP |
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Unearthly Landscape by a Lady by Rebecca Campbell Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Beneath Ceaseless Skies 184 <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: LTilton SFEP RHorton |
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Little Girls in Bone Museums by Sadie Bruce Time: 11m (4K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15 Deeply disturbing story about Piedra, a young woman whose body has been twisted into a work of art called a "bone knot." Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFEP |
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This Is the Way the Universe Ends: with a Bang by Brian Dolton Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15 In the far future, near the end of the Universe, Titus and the 92 remaining intelligences cope with the discovery of something new. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFEP |
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Entanglements by David Gerrold Time: 39m (12K words) Issue: F&SF 05.06|15 A writer gets a device that lets him examine alternate universes. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFRevu:5 SFEP |
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Johnny Rev by Rachel Pollack Time: 1h:20m (24K words) Issue: F&SF 07.08|15 Jack Shade, a supernatural investigator in New York City, is stalked by his own duplicate. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFEP |
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The Deepwater Bride by Tamsyn Muir Time: 28m (8K words) Issue: F&SF 07.08|15 Things from the deep ocean invade a small American town, and a 16-year-old girl who can glimpse the future seeks the cause of it all. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFEP RHorton |
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Skin in the Game by Elizabeth Bear Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Future Visions Neon White is a popular near-future singer who needs something to keep her act fresh. She already uses a lot of augments, but her publicist presses her to consider "machine empathy," technology that would let her fans experience her emotions directly. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFEP |
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The Machine Starts by Greg Bear Time: 37m (11K words) Issue: Future Visions Bose is a project manager for the "Magic 8 Ball," the world's first quantum computer. Desperate to get it to work, they're ready to make some unorthodox changes. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFEP |
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The Tell by David Brin Time: 38m (12K words) Issue: Future Visions The narrator is a magician who helps debunk con men, but he gets involved in serious, high-tech efforts to uncover the truth and predict the future. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFEP |
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Edited by Rich Larson Time: 10m (3K words) Issue: Interzone 259 Two teenage boys spend a weekend with a friend who's just been "edited." The narrator struggles to accept the changes in his friend and wonders if things can still be the same. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 SFEP |
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The Deep Of Winter by Chris Butler Time: 35m (11K words) Issue: Interzone 259 In an alternate world, a group of men go down into the abandoned undercity to search for two people who have disappeared. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [1] Recommended By: SFEP |
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Hot Rods by Cat Sparks Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Lightspeed 58 Near future Australia is dying from drought, and Harper's boyfriend has taken a job at a local mysterious American military base. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFEP |
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The Myth of Rain by Seanan Mcguire Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Lightspeed 60 In the near-future Pacific Northwest, environmentalists race to save key species from a forest that's slated to be destroyed. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFEP |
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Madeleine by Amal El-Mohtar Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61 Madeline is having an adverse reaction to an experimental drug--she revisits episodes in her past. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 KTB SFEP |
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Ghosts of Home by Sam J. Miller Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Lightspeed 63 A young woman with a bank job appeasing spirits who haunt foreclosed homes meets an attractive young male spirit who causes her to question the rules. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFEP |
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All in a Hot and Copper Sky by Megan Arkenberg Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Lightspeed 64 Thirty years after a catastrophe in a Mars mission simulation, a woman writes letters to her dead lover--the one they call the Angel of death. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFEP |
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City of Ash by Paolo Bacigalupi Time: 07m (2K words) Issue: Matter 7/27/15 In a near-future, water-starved Phoenix, AZ, Maria hides from the smoke of distant forest fires and thinks about everything that went wrong. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFEP GDozois |
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Jamaica Ginger by Nalo Hopkinson And Nisi Shawl Time: 28m (9K words) Issue: Stories for Chip In a steampunk New Orleans, Plaquette works for miserly "Msieur" building watches and automata. The "George" she's working on could gain her freedom, if it doesn't ruin her first. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFRevu:4 SFEP |
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The Language of Knives by Haralambi Markov Time: 08m (3K words) Issue: Tor.com 02/04/15 A man butchers the corpse of his husband to cook a meal for the gods, as required by his culture's funeral rites. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: KTB SFEP |
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The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman Malik Time: 1h:14m (22K words) Issue: Tor.com 04/22/15 Salman pursues the truth behind stories his grandfather told him about an impoverished princess he used to know back in Pakistan and the Jinn that protected her. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton SFEP |
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Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma Time: 31m (9K words) Issue: Tor.com 07/27/15 Lola (aka Eliza) has had problems dealing with people ever since she was a child, but she's always been good with snakes. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB SFEP |
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Consolation by John Kessel Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Twelve Tomorrows 2016 At the end of the 21st century, when climate change has shattered the US and much of the north has joined Canada, three people are affected by what appears to be a terrorist attack. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFEP GDozois RHorton |
Gardner Dozois
Total Stories: 31; Estimated Time: 17h:19m (312K words)
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The Audience by Sean Mcmullen Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: Analog 06|15 The Javelin reaches a rogue planet 36 light-days from Earth, but the crew finds something terrible there. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton GDozois NClarke |
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The Daughters of John Demetrius by Joe Pitkin Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Analog 10|15 In a future (~100 years) Mexico, out in the desert, a transhuman young man helps out some normal people, even though he's in peril from other transhumans who are hunting him. There seems to be a well-developed world behind this little story, and it defini Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton |
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Inhuman Garbage by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Time: 1h:24m (25K words) Issue: Asimov's 03|15 A young woman is murdered in Armstrong City, Luna, and both the police and organized crime want to understand why. Captivating. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton SFRevu:4 GDozois |
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The Children of Gal by Allen M. Steele Time: 1h:07m (20K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15 Sanjay's mother is exiled from the Eos colony for heresy because she claimed she saw "stars" moving in the night skies. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois |
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The Muses of Shuyedan-18 by Indrapramit Das Time: 29m (9K words) Issue: Asimov's 06|15 Lesbian couple studying the native life on Teysanzi make a real impression on a towering alien. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: GDozois |
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No Placeholder for You, My Love by Nick Wolven Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: Asimov's 08|15 Claire meets a handsome older man at a dinner party held in a virtual reality where something has gone subtly wrong. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 GDozois NClarke |
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Calved by Sam J. Miller Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Asimov's 09|15 A refugee from drowned New York City tries to reconnect with his teenage son during a break from the menial work he does on ice boats. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 GDozois NClarke |
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The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette De Bodard Time: 1h:48m (32K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15 The Empress of the Dai Viet Interstellar Empire assigned a team to track down her rebellious daughter, who disappeared thirty years ago. Now the scientist leading the investigation as also disappeared. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 SFEP GDozois |
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Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight by Aliette De Bodard Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 100 A key scientist in the Dai Viet interstellar empire has died, and three people who were close to her mourn her passing in different ways. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 GDozois |
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Meshed by Rich Larson Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101 In near-future Seattle, a basketball scout finds an unusually talented high school senior, but there's one catch. This story is uplifting and painful all at once. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton GDozois NClarke |
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The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill by Kelly Robson Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101 In 2001, just before the attacks, a girl out West has a very close encounter with space aliens. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois |
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Today I Am Paul by Martin L. Shoemaker Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 107 Alzheimer's patient's family can't visit her very often, so they buy a robot to fool her into thinking they're visiting her. The robot tells the story. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:5 GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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Ice by Rich Larson Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 109 At 16, freshly moved to an alien planet, Sedgewick plans to meet some local boys for a midnight challenge/initiation, but his 14-year-old brother tags along. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois |
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Trapping the Pleistocene by James Sarafin Time: 50m (15K words) Issue: F&SF 05.06|15 Fur trapper from ~22nd-Century Ohio goes back in time to try to catch a giant beaver. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 GDozois |
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Gypsy by Carter Scholz Time: 1h:18m (24K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 With Earth falling apart, a secret group launches a mission to Alpha Centauri in 2041. Launching is only half the problem; getting there is the real challenge. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 GDozois NClarke |
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Another Word for World by Ann Leckie Time: 46m (14K words) Issue: Future Visions Ashiban's attempts to negotiate peace with the Sovereign of Gidanta get off to a bad start when someone shoots down their flyer. They try to evade pursuit, having no idea which side staged the attack. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 GDozois NClarke |
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Hello, Hello by Seanan Mcguire Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Future Visions The narrator, a computational linguist, has installed an advanced speech-and-gesture-recognition system to let her deaf sister make video phone calls. But a stranger seems to be using the system too. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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Machine Learning by Nancy Kress Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: Future Visions In this very emotional story, to distract himself from the wife and child he lost, Ethan buries himself in his work on a AI system designed to teach children. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois |
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Silence Like Diamonds by John Barnes Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Lightreading.com <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: GDozois |
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The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal by Chaz Brenchley Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61 A group of Englishmen sharing an evening in a pub near a canal on "Old Mars" meet a stranger who knows their secret and makes them an offer. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton GDozois RHorton |
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City of Ash by Paolo Bacigalupi Time: 07m (2K words) Issue: Matter 7/27/15 In a near-future, water-starved Phoenix, AZ, Maria hides from the smoke of distant forest fires and thinks about everything that went wrong. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFEP GDozois |
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Emergence by Gwyneth Jones Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (SF) Romanz, a judge in the moons of jupiter, deals with a tough case involving a juvenile delinquent AI. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: GDozois |
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Rates Of Change by James S.A. Corey Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (Hard SF) A fun story about a near future where doctors can transplant your brain into a designer body, and a woman whose son nevertheless manages to sustain life-threatening injuries. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois |
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The Falls: A Luna Story by Ian Mcdonald Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (Hard SF) Interspersed with the narrator's account of her work on an intelligent AI for a Saturn mission, she describes how her daughter fell three kilometers on the moon. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois |
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In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon by Michael F. Flynn Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Mission: Tomorrow <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: GDozois |
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Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts By Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Old Venus Lady Ida's visit to Venus was memorialized by the beautiful floral papercuts she made there, but this sensational story revels the secret of the real purpose of her visit. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFRevu:5 GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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Planet Of Fear by Paul McAuley Time: 37m (11K words) Issue: Old Venus On an alternate Venus, communist Russians investigate mysterious disappearances and worry that the Americans are behind it. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton GDozois |
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Ruins by Eleanor Arnason Time: 48m (15K words) Issue: Old Venus Ash leads a team from National Geographic to see unusual megafauna in the Russian part of Old Venus. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois |
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Billy Tumult by Nick Harkaway Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Stories for Chip Billy Tumult is a psychic surgeon, who operates in virtual reality disguised as a wild-west cowboy. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 GDozois |
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Capitalism In The 22nd Century Or A.I.r. by Geoff Ryman Time: 18m (6K words) Issue: Stories for Chip Graça and Cristina want to leave Brazil and go settle on another planet, but it's expensive, physically challenging, and illegal. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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The First Gate Of Logic by Benjamin Rosenbaum Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Stories for Chip Today, little Fift will attempt the first gate of logic. She's excited, but some of her fathers and mother are worried that she's not ready. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: GDozois |
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The Game of Smash and Recovery by Kelly Link Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Strange Horizons 10/19/15 <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton |
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Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn Time: 00m ( words) Issue: The End Has Come <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: GDozois NClarke |
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Consolation by John Kessel Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Twelve Tomorrows 2016 At the end of the 21st century, when climate change has shattered the US and much of the north has joined Canada, three people are affected by what appears to be a terrorist attack. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFEP GDozois RHorton |
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It Takes More Muscles To Frown by Ned Beauman Time: 28m (9K words) Issue: Twelve Tomorrows 2016 The narrator, a blond American man, works for a Mexican oil company and leaks information to the cartels. He beats their lie detector tests using special implants in his face. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton GDozois |
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A Stopped Clock by Madeline Ashby Time: 00m ( words) Issue: War Stories from the Future <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: GDozois |
Rich Horton
Total Stories: 22; Estimated Time: 9h:43m (175K words)
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Analog 09|15 An art connoisseur who specializes in dynamic "evolutionary art" gets involved with the finest collection there is. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: RHorton |
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The Daughters of John Demetrius by Joe Pitkin Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Analog 10|15 In a future (~100 years) Mexico, out in the desert, a transhuman young man helps out some normal people, even though he's in peril from other transhumans who are hunting him. There seems to be a well-developed world behind this little story, and it defini Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton |
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Twelve and Tag by Gregory Norman Bossert Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: Asimov's 03|15 At the end of the 21st Century, the crew of Tethys initiates a pair of new crew members via a story-telling game. Chilling. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 RHorton |
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Mutability by Ray Nayler Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Asimov's 06|15 In a comfortable future world, a man meets a woman from a past he doesn't remember. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton RHorton |
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Acres of Perhaps by Will Ludwigsen Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Asimov's 07|15 In his old age, a TV writer reflects on a show he worked on fifty years ago--the only work he's really proud of--and the almost supernatural way it came to an end. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [0] Recommended By: RHorton |
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The King in the Cathedral by Rich Larson Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Beneath Ceaseless Skies 166 <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: RHorton |
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Unearthly Landscape by a Lady by Rebecca Campbell Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Beneath Ceaseless Skies 184 <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: LTilton SFEP RHorton |
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Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer Time: 11m (3K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 100 Entertaining tale of a modern search engine that achieves real artificial intelligence by accident and decides it wants to be helpful to people. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 RHorton NClarke |
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The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild by Catherynne M. Valente Time: 51m (16K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 102 Surreal tale about the loves and losses of Violet Wild, a girl from the purple country, who crosses the spectrum accompanied by a unicorn, a sorrow, and a herd of time squirrels. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 RHorton |
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Asymptotic by Andy Dudak Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 105 Intergalactic policeman enforces Einstein's speed limit, but suffers the side effects of violating it himself. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: RHorton |
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Today I Am Paul by Martin L. Shoemaker Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 107 Alzheimer's patient's family can't visit her very often, so they buy a robot to fool her into thinking they're visiting her. The robot tells the story. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:5 GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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The Deepwater Bride by Tamsyn Muir Time: 28m (8K words) Issue: F&SF 07.08|15 Things from the deep ocean invade a small American town, and a 16-year-old girl who can glimpse the future seeks the cause of it all. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 SFEP RHorton |
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Hello, Hello by Seanan Mcguire Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Future Visions The narrator, a computational linguist, has installed an advanced speech-and-gesture-recognition system to let her deaf sister make video phone calls. But a stranger seems to be using the system too. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander Time: 37m (11K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57 Rhye a bitter ex-supersoldier, fights to rescue Rack, her hacker partner in crime, after the criminals they're working for kill Rack's body while his mind is in cyberspace. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: KTB RHorton |
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Time Bomb Time by C. C. Finlay Time: 10m (3K words) Issue: Lightspeed 60 Hannah's boyfriend wants to test his time experiment in Hannah's room. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [1] Recommended By: RHorton |
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The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal by Chaz Brenchley Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61 A group of Englishmen sharing an evening in a pub near a canal on "Old Mars" meet a stranger who knows their secret and makes them an offer. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton GDozois RHorton |
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The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club by Nike Sulway Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: Lightspeed 65 What if rhinoceroses behaved like human beings and talked about their upcoming extinction during book club meetings? Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton RHorton |
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Little Sisters by Vonda N. McIntyre Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Little Sisters <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: RHorton |
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Drones by Simon Ings Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (Soft SF) A man describes his family problems in a future England where a plague has killed almost all the women. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: RHorton |
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My Last Bringback by John Barnes Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (SF) Layla, an expert on restoring the memories of people suffering from Alzheimer's, finds herself restoring her own memories--for better or for worse.. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 LTilton RHorton |
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Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts By Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Old Venus Lady Ida's visit to Venus was memorialized by the beautiful floral papercuts she made there, but this sensational story revels the secret of the real purpose of her visit. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFRevu:5 GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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The Heart's Filthy Lesson by Elizabeth Bear Time: 34m (10K words) Issue: Old Venus Fun adventure on Old Venus. Dharthi risks her life in an unexplored part of Ishtar Terra looking for evidence of a vanished civilization that would save her career. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: RHorton |
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The Graphology of Hemorrhage by Yoon Ha Lee Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Operation Arcana <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: LTilton RHorton |
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Capitalism In The 22nd Century Or A.I.r. by Geoff Ryman Time: 18m (6K words) Issue: Stories for Chip Graça and Cristina want to leave Brazil and go settle on another planet, but it's expensive, physically challenging, and illegal. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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The Game of Smash and Recovery by Kelly Link Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Strange Horizons 10/19/15 <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton |
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This Evening's Performance by Genevieve Valentine Time: 00m ( words) Issue: The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: RHorton |
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The Two Paupers by C.S.E. Cooney Time: 00m ( words) Issue: The Two Paupers <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: RHorton |
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Please Undo This Hurt by Seth Dickinson Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Tor.com 09/16/15 A woman paramedic and her best friend fear that despite their best efforts, they end up causing more pain than they relieve. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [0] Recommended By: KTB RHorton |
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Consolation by John Kessel Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Twelve Tomorrows 2016 At the end of the 21st century, when climate change has shattered the US and much of the north has joined Canada, three people are affected by what appears to be a terrorist attack. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFEP GDozois RHorton |
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Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Uncanny 2 <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: RHorton NClarke |
Neil Clarke
Total Stories: 27; Estimated Time: 11h:56m (215K words)
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The Audience by Sean Mcmullen Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: Analog 06|15 The Javelin reaches a rogue planet 36 light-days from Earth, but the crew finds something terrible there. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: LTilton GDozois NClarke |
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Three Bodies at Mitanni by Seth Dickinson Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Analog 06|15 Earth has sent a powerful starship to find the colonies it established 1,000 years ago and to destroy any that pose a threat to humanity. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: NClarke |
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No Placeholder for You, My Love by Nick Wolven Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: Asimov's 08|15 Claire meets a handsome older man at a dinner party held in a virtual reality where something has gone subtly wrong. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 GDozois NClarke |
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Two-Year Man by Kelly Robson Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Asimov's 08|15 Mikkel isn't very bright, but he cleverly supplements his janitorial job by scavenging useful items his superiors discard and bringing them home to his wife--then one day he brings home a mutant baby. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton NClarke |
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Wild Honey by Paul Mcauley Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Asimov's 08|15 In post-Collapse America, Mel operates a hive of augmented bees and trading honey and medicines with locals--until a crew of bandits arrives. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFEP NClarke |
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Calved by Sam J. Miller Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Asimov's 09|15 A refugee from drowned New York City tries to reconnect with his teenage son during a break from the menial work he does on ice boats. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 GDozois NClarke |
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Empty by Robert Reed Time: 27m (8K words) Issue: Asimov's 12|15 Lerner Pong is an AI on a mission to the outer solar system following a huge war between machines that has left the inner solar system in ruins. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton NClarke |
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Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer Time: 11m (3K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 100 Entertaining tale of a modern search engine that achieves real artificial intelligence by accident and decides it wants to be helpful to people. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 RHorton NClarke |
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Meshed by Rich Larson Time: 14m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101 In near-future Seattle, a basketball scout finds an unusually talented high school senior, but there's one catch. This story is uplifting and painful all at once. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton GDozois NClarke |
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Today I Am Paul by Martin L. Shoemaker Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 107 Alzheimer's patient's family can't visit her very often, so they buy a robot to fool her into thinking they're visiting her. The robot tells the story. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:5 GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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So Much Cooking by Naomi Kritzer Time: 27m (8K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 110 During a flu epidemic, the narrator uses her cooking blog to tell the world about how she and her family make do on short rations. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 NClarke |
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Gypsy by Carter Scholz Time: 1h:18m (24K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15 With Earth falling apart, a secret group launches a mission to Alpha Centauri in 2041. Launching is only half the problem; getting there is the real challenge. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 GDozois NClarke |
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Another Word for World by Ann Leckie Time: 46m (14K words) Issue: Future Visions Ashiban's attempts to negotiate peace with the Sovereign of Gidanta get off to a bad start when someone shoots down their flyer. They try to evade pursuit, having no idea which side staged the attack. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 GDozois NClarke |
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Hello, Hello by Seanan Mcguire Time: 26m (8K words) Issue: Future Visions The narrator, a computational linguist, has installed an advanced speech-and-gesture-recognition system to let her deaf sister make video phone calls. But a stranger seems to be using the system too. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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A Murmuration by Alaistair Reynolds Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Interzone 257 (Hard SF) Scientist studying flock behavior of starlings gets astonishing results but struggles to get her paper accepted. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFRevu:4 NClarke |
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Violation of the TrueNet Security Act by Taiyo Fujii Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: Lightspeed 62 A washed-up programmer in near-future Japan explores old code that she wrote back before the Internet was replaced by TrueNet. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: NClarke |
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The Smog Society by Chen Qiufan Time: 15m (5K words) Issue: Lightspeed 63 A lonely old Chinese man gets involved in the fight against smog--without government approval. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: LTilton NClarke |
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Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World by Caroline M. Yoachim Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 64 Young scientist trying to develop time travel encounters an alien intelligence that lives outside of time. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [1] Recommended By: NClarke |
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Cocoons by Nancy Kress Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (SF) The narrator escorts an official concerned about a disease that converts unlucky colonists into alien creatures. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: NClarke |
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In Blue Lily's Wake by Aliette De Bodard Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (SF) Eleven years ago, the Blue-Lily plague devastated the Empire. Now Yen Oanh attends to unfinished business with a dead mind-ship and a living survivor. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 NClarke |
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Outsider by An Owomoyela Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (SF) when an Earth ship arrives at Se after centuries with no contact, the locals struggle to understand their strange, technophobic visitor. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 NClarke |
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The Cold Inequalities by Yoon Ha Lee Time: 15m (5K words) Issue: Meeting Infinity (SF) Anzhmir supervises the data stores on an interstellar spaceship. The people encoded in the data are asleep, but Anzhmir thinks there's a stowaway. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: NClarke |
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Iron Pegasus by Brenda Cooper Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Mission: Tomorrow <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: NClarke |
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Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts By Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Old Venus Lady Ida's visit to Venus was memorialized by the beautiful floral papercuts she made there, but this sensational story revels the secret of the real purpose of her visit. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFRevu:5 GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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The Tumbledowns Of Cleopatra Abyss by David Brin Time: 52m (16K words) Issue: Old Venus Jonah is a young man in a matriarchal human society hiding at the bottom of an ocean on a far-future Venus whose terraforming seems to be going wrong after thousands of years. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton NClarke |
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Capitalism In The 22nd Century Or A.I.r. by Geoff Ryman Time: 18m (6K words) Issue: Stories for Chip Graça and Cristina want to leave Brazil and go settle on another planet, but it's expensive, physically challenging, and illegal. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: GDozois RHorton NClarke |
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Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn Time: 00m ( words) Issue: The End Has Come <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: GDozois NClarke |
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The Gods Have Not Died in Vain by Ken Liu Time: 00m ( words) Issue: The End Has Come <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: NClarke |
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Damage by David D. Levine Time: 24m (7K words) Issue: Tor.com 01/21/15 An intelligent, patchwork fighter ship struggles to help the last of the Free Belt fight off the Earth Force. Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [2] Recommended By: NClarke |
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Hold-Time Violations by John Chu Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Tor.com 10/07/15 Ellie is trying to catch a train from Boston to DC so she can visit her ailing mother when her sister calls to tell her she needs to "go to the skunkworks and repair the physics of this universe." Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: NClarke |
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Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang Time: 00m ( words) Issue: Uncanny 2 <Coming soon> Other Reviews RSR Mini-Review [] Recommended By: RHorton NClarke |
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