A Billion Eves by Robert Reed
Category: Science Fiction
Words: 23048 Reading time: 65-92 min.
Description: Robert Reed tells us the following tale "is a brutal reworking of a story that I first wrote in my mid-twenties. What remains from that earlier attempt is the flashback sections with the sorority house ... except that I changed the point-of-view and ...
Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter by Geoff Ryman
Category: Fantasy
Words: 12602 Reading time: 36-50 min.
Description: Much of Geoff Ryman's work has shown a strong interest in Asia, including The Unconquered Country and more recent stories such as "The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai" (from the FSF Dec. 2005 issue), the award-winning novel Air, and his most r...
Inclination by William Shunn
Category: Science Fiction
Words: 18725 Reading time: 53-74 min.
Description: Born in L.A. and raised in Utah, William Shunn has lived for the past ten years in New York City, where he and his wife Laura are proud owners of a soft-coated wheaten terrier named Ella. Since his first publication in 1993, his stories have appeared...
Eight Episodes by Robert Reed
Category: Science Fiction
Words: 3881 Reading time: 11-15 min.
Description: Robert Reed's collection of short stories, The Cuckoo's Boys, was recently released by Golden Gryphon Press. It contains several tales that were originally published in Asimov's. In his latest story, he synopsizes a peculiar, and, at times, disquieti...
Yellow Card Man by Paolo Bacigalupi
Category: Science Fiction
Words: 14397 Reading time: 41-57 min.
Description: Paolo Bacigalupi recently was nominated for a Hugo Award and won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for his short story "The Calorie Man". The author has a website at windupstories.com. He tells us the pitiless future of the "Yellow Card Man" was "...
Kin by Bruce McAllister
Category: Science Fiction
Words: 3809 Reading time: 10-15 min.
Description: Bruce McAllister has recently sold stories to Glimmer Train, Aeon Speculative Fiction, and F&SF. He's working on a novel tentatively called Emilio and the Water Dragons of Como and on a screenplay version (with former student/close friend/TV and film... |