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Showing posts with label Patrick Nielsen Hayden. Show all posts
Thursday, May 7, 2020

An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands, by Fran Wilde

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[ Single ] ★★☆☆☆ (Exploration) A generation ship arrives at its target planet only to discover a civilization has arisen in the centuries...

Little Free Library, by Naomi Kritzer

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[ Single ] ★★★★☆ A delightful adventure in books and revolution. (Uncanny Horror) When Megian sets out her homemade book exchange, a myst...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Manuscript Tradition, by Harry Turtledove

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[ Single ] ★★★☆☆ (SF Exploration) A researcher studying plant life on planet TRAPPIST-1f finds that although they’re quite alien, there’s...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Tie A Yellow Ribbon, by Harry Turtledove

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[ Single ] ★★☆☆☆ (Slipstream; State of Jefferson Stories ) In an alternate 1980 a sasquatch who’d been held hostage in Iran comes home to...

Always Something New, by Harry Turtledove

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[ Single ] ★★☆☆☆ (Slipstream; State of Jefferson Stories ) The governor has to investigate a report that a fish thought to be mythical ha...

Something Fishy, by Harry Turtledove

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[ Single ] ★★☆☆☆ (Slipstream; State of Jefferson Stories ) Merfolk are eating too many salmon at the mouth of the Klamath river, and the ...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

The Hundredth House Had No Walls, by Laurie Penny

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[ Single ] ★★★☆☆ (Slipstream) After 500 years, the King of Myth and Shadow is getting bored, so he decides to take a vacation in New York...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

The New Prometheus, by Michael Swanwick

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[ Single ] ★★★☆☆ (Alternate-History Horror; The Mongolian Wizard ) Ritter crosses the arctic waste in search of a monster with a great po...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Murder in the Spook House, by Michael Swanwick

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[ Single ] ★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention (Alternate-History Fantasy; The Mongolian Wizard ) In this episode, Ritter investigates the murder of ...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

Party Discipline, by Cory Doctorow

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Read this story (Dystopia) Lenae and Shirelle are just high school girls with no futures, but they fantasize about fighting the corporatio...
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Friday, April 21, 2017

A Burden Shared, by Jo Walton

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Read this story (Near-Future SF) Penny uses a technology that lets her share some of her daughter’s pain from a congenital joint problem. ...
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Friday, November 4, 2016

Dune: Red Plague, by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

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Read this story (Space Opera; Dune ) People on Walgis are dying, but the Butlerian Jihad dictates that no advanced medicine may be used. ...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Clover, by Charlie Jane Anders

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Read this story (Modern Fantasy) Anwar and Joe get an unexpected cat and a promise of nine years of good luck. Things are great, until nin...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Everything Belongs to the Future, by Laurie Penny

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Find this story (Near-Future SF) The Fix offers a couple of centuries of youth to anyone who can afford it. By 2098, it has changed the wo...
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Monday, August 15, 2016

Totem Poles, by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling

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Read this story . (SF Humor) Space aliens have invaded, but they're repairing the world--not destroying it--and no...
Sunday, July 3, 2016

The Jewel and Her Lapidary, by Fran Wilde

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[ Single ] ★★★★☆ Recommended (High Fantasy; The Jewel Series ) Two teenage girls, Lin, the last Jewel, and Sima, the last Lapidary, strug...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Typecasting, by Harry Turtledove

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[ Single ] ★★☆☆☆ (Alternate History; State of Jefferson Stories ) It's 1980, and a Sasquatch, Bill Williamson, is governor of "J...
Monday, May 30, 2016

The Pigeon Summer, by Brit Mandelo

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Read this story (Ghost Story) A young person mourning the loss of their best friend/lover, going days doing nothing but watching a nest of...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

Discards, by David D. Levine

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Read this story (Fantasy SF; Wild Cards ) Tiago, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy scraping by on his own in Rio de Janeiro, contracts the ...
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Thursday, December 3, 2015

The Phantom in the Maze, by Michael Swanwick

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[ Single ] ★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention (Alternate-History Fantasy; The Mongolian Wizard ) Murder mystery involving a team of precognitives cr...