This batch of stories all comes from the December 2015 issue of Lightspeed Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams ( Read more... )

Still playing catch-up, here finally are my thoughts on the contents of Lightspeed Magazine’s October 2014 issue:

241. DUST by Daniel Jose Older   In Older’s moving and claustrophobic tale, Jax is the nominal head of a mining settlement on an asteroid that has left the Belt and is on a collision course with a long-deserted Earth. Politics and ( Read more... )

Four more from The Way of the Wizard, edited by John Joseph Adams and published by Prime:

9. The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Robert Silverberg There are lots of Silverberg stories I've never read, and here's one more I can cross off my list. A languid little tale of a young man who can't seem to find any "normal" work in life but who has some small ( Read more... )