Latest in my series of posts about successive winners of the Tiptree, Clarke and BSFA Best Novel awards.

Second paragraph of third part of “Stories for Men”, by John Kessel:He washed his face, applied personal hygiene bacteria, threw on his embroidered jumpsuit, and rushed out of the apartment.
I remember being hugely impressed by this story when ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third story ("Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your crisis", by Kate Wilhelm): They were in the mountains. That was good. Lotte liked it when they chose mountains. A stocky man was sliding down a slope, feet out before him, legs stiff - too conscious of the camera, though. Lotte couldn't tell if he had meant to slide, but he did ( Read more... )

Five - well, four - decent stories in this line-up. For further opinions see Rich Horton, Abigail Nussbaum, and the readers of Vector (with links to other reviews, here, here, here, here and here). [ETA: also Ian Sales.] As before I'll list them in reverse order of preference:

5) Alistair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders, by Mike Resnick: two old men ( Read more... )