The Alchemist and The Executioness by Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias Buckell The Alchemist and The Executioness caught my eye as soon as it went up at Audible. (Both novellas are now available in print from Subterranean Press.) Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell offering linked fantasy novellas that take place in a shared world? Bacigalupi’s story […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4.5 | Paolo Bacigalupi, Tobias Buckell | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Arctic Rising by Tobias Buckell Tobias Buckell offers up a fast-paced near-future technothriller in his latest novel, Arctic Rising. Two strong main characters, an intriguing and just-detailed-enough future setting, and crisp, clear prose make it mostly a winner, with only a few flaws to spoil the fun. Arctic Rising takes place roughly 50 years from […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Tobias Buckell | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Hurricane Fever by Tobias Buckell I very much enjoyed Tobias Buckell’s 2012 SF novel Arctic Rising, which was set on a near-future Earth dramatically affected by global warming. As much as I loved that novel’s main character Anika, I mentioned in my review that I wouldn’t mind reading a novel set in the same world but […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Tobias Buckell | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell The Tangled Lands is a shared-world collection of four novellas, two each written by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell. The setting is the faded remains of the once-great Jhandpara Empire, whose glory had relied on wondrously powerful magic. The dying remnants of once-glorious empires […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Paolo Bacigalupi, Tobias Buckell | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Subterranean Online’s summer issue is devoted to young adult fiction, but the authors seem to have taken that directive as license to be subversive. It’s been true for a while now that the only thing “young adult” about most “young adult” science fiction, fantasy and horror is that the protagonist is not an adult. The […]
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Clarkesworld Magazine is a monthly electronic publication with a strong focus on science fiction, though it also publishes fantasy. In addition, it has an unusual emphasis on nonfiction. The September issue, No. 72, contains three stories, all of which are science fiction, two nonfiction articles, and an interview. “The Found Girl,” by David Klecha and […]
Read MoreTerry Weyna | Nick Mamatas, Tobias Buckell | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The spring issue of Subterranean is exceptionally strong, even for a publication known for its excellent fiction. The six long pieces in this issue seem to be somewhat thematically linked, most of them having taken some form of art as their theme. In “Painted Birds and Shivered Bones” by Kat Howard, an artist named Maeve […]
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Forever Magazine is a new venture by Neil Clarke, editor of the esteemed Clarkesworld. He explains in the introduction to the first issue of the magazine that it is a monthly publication focused on previously published works, mostly from this (still new) century. Clarke is the entire staff of the magazine. The Kindle subscription price […]
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There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. In honor of the U.S. Independence Day today, several of our stories deal with the theme of freedom — though not always in the sense one might […]
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Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about, including some nominees for the 2016 Nebula award. “A Militant Peace” by Tobias Buckell (2014, $2.62 at Audible) “No nation has ever seen an invasion force like this.”Tobias Buckell’s […]
Read MoreKat Hooper, Tadiana Jones and Katie Burton | Frank Herbert, Sam J. Miller, Tobias Buckell | Audio, Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read that we wanted you to know about. You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay, Alyssa Wong (2016, free at Uncanny, $3.99 Kindle magazine issue) 2017 Nebula and 2016 Hugo award nominee (novelette) Alyssa Wong sets her novelette […]
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Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read that we wanted you to know about. The Waiting Stars by Aliette de Bodard (2013, free to read online or download on author’s website). 2013 Nebula award winner and 2014 Hugo award nominee (novelette) In this 2013 […]
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Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read that we wanted you to know about. “A World to Die For” by Tobias Buckell (Jan. 2018, free at Clarkesworld, Issue 136, $3.99 Kindle magazine issue) Be warned: “A World to Die For” can be read as […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds, Tadiana Jones and Bill Capossere | John Scalzi, Tobias Buckell | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
SHORTS: Our column exploring free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. This week’s post reviews two more Locus Award nominees, along with other recent short fiction works that we’ve enjoyed. Late Returns by Joe Hill (2019, included in the Full Throttle collection). Locus award finalist (novelette) Joe Hill, who like his famous father […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones, Skye Walker and Kat Hooper | Joe Hill, Suzanne Palmer, Tobias Buckell | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams John Joseph Adams assembles a wide variety of apocalypse-related fiction in Wastelands. some of which are older than I am, while others are more recent. What you end up with is a diverse anthology covering topics such as religion, war, and exploration while containing horror, […]
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METAtropolis edited by John Scalzi It’s not a utopia. It’s just maybe something that sucks a little less. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and it turns out that all those eco-freaks were right all along. We humans destroyed the planet and now we’ve got to live with the mess we’ve […]
Read MoreKat Hooper and Stefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 3, 3.5 | Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, John Scalzi, Karl Schroeder, Tobias Buckell | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Speculative Horizons edited by Patrick St. Denis Speculative Horizons is a lovely little anthology edited by book blogger Patrick St. Denis (of Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist fame). When the good people at Subterranean Press asked him whether he’d be interested in editing a short story collection, he understandably jumped on the idea (who wouldn’t?!), but asked […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Brian Ruckley, C.S. Friedman, Hal Duncan, L.E. Modesitt_Jr, Tobias Buckell | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories edited by John Joseph Adams Even people who don’t usually read science fiction will often be familiar with a few classic titles in the “dystopian SF” sub-genre. After all, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and of course the famous Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World are some of the few SF titles […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED) and Ruth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 5 | Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Vaughn, Charles Coleman (C.C.) Finlay, Cory Doctorow, Genevieve Valentine, Harlan Ellison, Kate Wilhelm, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Bacigalupi, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Tobias Buckell, Ursula K. Le-Guin | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
Schemers by Robin D. Laws (editor) Schemers is a collection of short stories by an excellent list of authors: Jesse Bullington, Tobias Buckell, Ekaterina Sedia, Jonathan L. Howard, Nick Mamatas, Elizabeth A. Vaughan, Tania Hershman, Kyla Lee Ward, Robyn Seale, Laura Lush, Molly Tanzer, John Helfers, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, and Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. These are stories of […]
Read MoreJustin Blazier´s rating: 4 | Ekaterina Sedia, Elizabeth Vaughan, Jesse Bullington, Jonathan L. Howard, Nick Mamatas, Tobias Buckell | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell Twenty-First Century Science Fiction is packed full of excellent science fiction stories. I’ve been reading anthologies lately, partly to improve my own short story writing, and this is the best I’ve found so far. It contains stories by authors such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Cory Doctorow, Catherynne […]
Read MoreMike Reeves-McMillan´s rating: 5 | Brenda Cooper, Catherynne M. Valente, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, David D. Levine, Elizabeth Bear, Genevieve Valentine, James L. Cambias, Jo Walton, John Scalzi, Kage Baker, Karl Schroeder, Liz Williams, Madeline Ashby, Mary Robinette Kowal, Paolo Bacigalupi, Rachel Swirsky, Tobias Buckell, Yoon Ha Lee | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Old Venus by Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois’s themed anthologies are some of the most popular on the market these days. Soliciting the genre’s best-known mainstream writers, selecting highly familiar themes, and letting the length run to 500+ pages, Rogues, Warriors, Dangerous Women, Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, and others are […]
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A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers edited by Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams In reaction to the Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States as well as to the rhetoric spewed by his far-right supporters such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, Victor […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Ashok K. Banker, Catherynne M. Valente, Charles Yu, Charlie Jane Anders, Daniel José Older, G. Willow Wilson, Hugh Howey, Justina Ireland, Malka Older, Maria Dahvana Headley, N.K. Jemisin, Sam J. Miller, Seanan McGuire, Tobias Buckell, Victor Lavalle | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
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