Still trying to catch up. This entry is the fiction contents of the May 2016 issue of Lightspeed Magazine (#72), edited by John Joseph Adams ( Read more... )

Still attempting to catch up, here are briefer-than-usual thoughts on the contents of the anthology Dark and Dangerous Things III, edited by M.A. Chiappetta, Donna A. Leahey and Margaret Perdue ( Read more... )

This next catch-up post is for the stories appearing in the April 2016 issue of Lightspeed Magazine, #71, edited by John Joseph Adams ( Read more... )

This next batch of catch-up entries comes from the March, 2016 issue of Lightspeed magazine, #70, edited by John Joseph Adams:

64. RED KING by Craig Delancy.  Unnamed narrator who goes by the handle “CodeMonkey” is brought in on a police raid to arrest a known hacker named Legion, as the first step in tracking down a murder-causing bit of brain- ( Read more... )

Still playing catch-up to what I've read. These two stories are from the anthology Robbed of Sleep, Volume 4 (in which, full disclosure, my short story "Yeti" appears). I haven't read the whole book yet ( Read more... )

Way, way, way, way, way behind on posting story reviews here. Here's a slight attempt to start catching up.

Today's entry is three interconnected stories by seanan_mcguire that are a part of her InCryptid universe. They take place in the year gap (character time) between when Verity Price and Dominic deLuca leave NYC at the end of Midnight Blue-Light Special ( ( Read more... )

Today's story is a stand-alone novella published in ebook form by the author:

58. RESUME SPEED by Lawrence Block.  There are many facets of fiction-writing that Lawrence Block is an acknowledged master of, in either short story or novel form or both. One of those is the "slow boil," especially in his shorter fiction. I realize that sounds like a ( Read more... )

Today's story comes from the anthology UNBOUND: Tales By Masters of Fantasy, edited by Shawn Speakman ( Read more... )

The final story from Clockwork Phoenix 5, edited by Mike Allen ( Read more... )

Second-to-last story in Clockwork Phoenix 5, edited by Mike Allen ( Read more... )