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6/18/2008 10:09:07 AM
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StevenLP
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My favourites so far this year:
Ian R. Macleod. The Hob Carpet (Asimovs)
Forrest Aguirre. The Auctioneer and the Antiquarian, or, 1962
Derek Kunsken. Beneath Sunlit Shadows
Neal Barrett Jr. Slidin'
Robert Reed. The House Left Empty
Matthew Johnson. Another Country
Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The Room of Lost Souls
Brian Stableford. Following the Pharmers
Elizabeth Bear. Shoggoths in Bloom
Carol Emshwiller. Master of the Road to Nowhere
Michael Swanwick. From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled
Mary Rosenblum. The Egg Man
John Kessel. The Last American
Tanith Lee. 'The Beautiful and Damned' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Kessel. Pride and Prometheus (F&SF)
Alex Irvine. Mystery Hill
James L. Cambias. Balancing Accounts
Ann Miller. Retrospect
Alexander Jablokov. The Boarder
Albert E. Cowdrey. The Overseer
Matthew Hughes. Fullbrim’s Findings
P.E.Cunningham. Monkey See
Al Michaud. The Salting and Canning of Benevolance D
Robert Reed. Character Flu
Robert Reed. Five Thrillers
Will McIntosh. Street Hero (Interzone)
Mercurio D. Rivera. The Scent of Their Arrival
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Endra—From Memory
R. R. Angell. Remote Control
Anil Menon. Into the Night
Geoff Ryman. Talk is Cheap
Paolo Bacigalupi. Pump Six (Pump Six & other tales)
Maureen F. McHugh. Special Economics (Del Rey book of SF & Fantasy)
Margo Lanagan. The Goosle
Carol Emshwiller. All Washed Up While Looking for a Better World
Jeffrey Ford. Daltharee
Paul McAuley & Kim Newman. Prisoners of the Action
Paul Meloy. Alex and the Toyceivers (Paper Cities)
Catherynne M. Valente. Palimpsest
Alistair Rennie .The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines” (The New Weird)
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6/29/2008 7:42:47 PM
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jason
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My favorite stories so far in 2008 are:
"Pump Six" by Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six & other tales)
"An Alien Heresy" by S.P. Somtow (Asimov's April/May 2008 issue)
"Five Thrillers" by Robert Reed (April 2008 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
"Far Horizon" by Jason Stoddard (Interzone issue 214)
Joe Haldeman's Marsbound (serialized in Analog)
Of those, I think "Pump Six" by Paolo Bacigalupi and "Five Thrillers" by Robert Reed should be on the shortlist of every major SF award.
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7/4/2008 9:42:58 AM
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bluetyson
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jason wrote:
My favorite stories so far in 2008 are:
Of those, I think "Pump Six" by Paolo Bacigalupi and "Five Thrillers" by Robert Reed should be on the shortlist of every major SF award.
I am hoping so, might get to read the former sooner than coming across the collection.  What is that one about?
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7/4/2008 9:59:32 AM
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Gordon Van Gelder
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Blue---
"Pump Six" will run in the September F&SF.
---Gordon V.G.
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7/4/2008 10:22:50 AM
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jason
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Fabrice: For what it's worth, Pump Six and Other Stories is one of the best SF short story collections in recent years. Without going into all the specifics--you can see my review here, I believe this is the best speculative fiction short story collection since Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others. So it's well worth your time and money to have a copy of this book!
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7/4/2008 10:24:11 AM
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Annie
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The collection is worth even if you had already read this particular story anyway so don't get upset.
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7/4/2008 10:24:24 AM
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bluetyson
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Gordon Van Gelder wrote:
Blue---
"Pump Six" will run in the September F&SF.
---Gordon V.G.
Sweet! I have bought it without knowing it.
 
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7/4/2008 10:30:56 AM
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bluetyson
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Annie wrote:
The collection is worth even if you had already read this particular story anyway so don't get upset.
Perhaps. If you had to double the cost (e.g. postage), you mightn't be as keen.
Thanks to Mr. Van Gelder's forthcoming and past efforts will have read all the stories in it at least. I agree that he is up in Chiang territory.
Between them they have maybe 1/4 of Egan's output unfortunately, be interesting what those dwellers in the universe where they write four times as much think of the rest of their output. ;-)
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7/4/2008 10:35:08 AM
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WPreston
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I like how when I typed "Chiang, Ted" into my county library's computer system it not only gave me some results, it also asked, "Did you mean King Tut?"
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7/4/2008 10:38:36 AM
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Annie
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bluetyson wrote:
Annie wrote: The collection is worth even if you had already read this particular story anyway so don't get upset. Perhaps. If you had to double the cost (e.g. postage), you mightn't be as keen.
I am in Eastern Europe, my postage is always killing me
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7/4/2008 11:22:00 AM
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bluetyson
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Annie wrote:
bluetyson wrote: Annie wrote: The collection is worth even if you had already read this particular story anyway so don't get upset. Perhaps. If you had to double the cost (e.g. postage), you mightn't be as keen. I am in Eastern Europe, my postage is always killing me
Yeah, pretty likely!
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7/7/2008 12:28:59 PM
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StevenLP
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I would add to my earlier list these two fantasies from Subterranean Online (spring 2008):
Stone Eggs by Adriana Campoy and James P. Blaylock
By the Liter by Ekaterina Sedia
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7/7/2008 1:41:27 PM
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gdozois
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Elissa Malcohn was a new writer back when I first took over ASIMOV'S, then vanished for decades. Good to see that she's writing again.
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7/8/2008 7:02:53 AM
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Annie
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blue,
"Transhuman"? Van Name's anthology or something else got published with this name? Wasn't it published at the end of last year?
Edit: Ok, just checked - it says 2008 so guess it was very early this year.
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7/8/2008 7:21:53 AM
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bluetyson
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Yep, that one is easy to get, on webscriptions. A good month that one, so actually got a bundle.
http://www.webscription.net/p-711-w200802-february-2008-webscription.aspx
Farmer, Bujold, and Super Horton says that the Drake books are fun, too.
No shipping required for those of us requiring expensive bloody plane trips to get stuff to us.
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7/8/2008 7:33:00 AM
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Annie
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bluetyson wrote:
No shipping required for those of us requiring expensive bloody plane trips to get stuff to us.
After 12 hours in front of a computer I am not a huge fan of reading from a screen. Good thing I invested in a printer. And I will check the site -- I have the paper version of this one (someone sent it to me together with some other stuff as a late New Year gift - that's why I thought it is actually 2007 I guess) but they seem to have things I don't so guess it is time for some new shopping. And I am still waiting for most of my last orders anyway.
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7/14/2008 7:57:32 AM
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jason
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Another story which is now on my short list of picks for the year is "The Tale of Junko and Sayuri" by Peter S. Beagle from the July 2008 issue of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Here's my review of the story.
That means my favorite stories so far in 2008 are this story, "Pump Six" by Paolo Bacigalupi, and "Five Thrillers" by Robert Reed.
edited by jason on 7/14/2008
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7/15/2008 4:50:28 AM
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StevenLP
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The August Interzone has three stories I'd add to my "Best of year" list: “The Two-Headed Girl” by Paul G. Tremblay; “The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain” by Jason Sanford and “Little Lost Robot” by Paul McAuley.
The "Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2" has four strong stories: “Fifty Dinosaurs” by Robert Reed; “The Eyes of God” by Peter Watts; “Shining Armor” by Dominic Green and “Mathralon” by David Louis Edelman’s
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7/15/2008 4:51:59 AM
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StevenLP
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Presumably the next Robert Reed story to be recommended here will have "500" in the title ...
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7/15/2008 4:59:14 AM
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Annie
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StevenLP wrote:
Presumably the next Robert Reed story to be recommended here will have "500" in the title ...
Or he will move to 6... "Six Foot Easy" comes out in Postscripts 15 when they get it out
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