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So far only read:-- A Demon's Christmas Carol by Jennie Goloboy - 4*That was a surprising and sweet story about a demon happily being summoned to Earth. He could use a vacation from Hell and he has fond memories of previous times on Earth.
My favourite: mad milk, Laki, What makes you forget
An average edition. My favorite stories were:“A Vast Silence” by T. R. Napper - A criminal with a “voice” in his head, is on the run in Australia, shares a ride share with a student, unaware of the danger “The Reckoning” by Alexander Glass - Chistopher Marlon meets Shakespeare in this alt history story“Laki” by Eleanor Arneson - A family is forced to leave their farm in southern Iceland to escape the eruption’s poisonous air and ash. On their journey they encounter trolls“Lajos and His Bees” by
This was an okay issue, with one story that I liked a lot and a couple of others that were above average.Nalo Hopkinson - Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story - 3 stars- I tend to not like stories where the author creates his/her own language for some or all of the characters. It may help to set the mood, environment, whatever, but it also makes it more difficult to read and understand the story. Other than that, it's a nice story with a very gloomy view of the future.Megan Lindholm - A Dime - 5 st...
A better than average issue with some intersting stories by Nalo Hopkinson, Graham Edwards, Eleanor Arnason, K. A. Teryna, Hayley Stone and Jennie Goloboy.- "Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story" by Nalo Hopkinson: an interesting story in a future when global warming has caused water to cover much of the world. A girl with newly added augments attempts to use them before they are ready, causing her to crash in a storm. On an island, she finds something new, but it would have to wait for rescue to f...
Some good stories in this issue. “Mad Milk” from Natalia Theodoridou was probably my favorite - a grappling novella dealing with revenge and atonement that gets wilder and wilder. A writer to follow. Other highlights were the dark “What Makes You Forget” from Victor Pseftakis - a weird fable on poverty - or the peculiar “Laki” by Eleanor Arnason - a fantastic retelling of a shattering volcanic eruption that took place in Iceland during the 18th century - it’s been a while I’ve read trolls this g...
An OK collection of stories; tempted to round up to 3.5/5 for the last few short stories. CW for child abuse, child/innocents death, suicide, and things that go creep in the sea.Happy poetry month! Some nice poems in this edition. ALSO BOOK BEE WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE ON GOODREADS THERE IS A STORY ABOUT BEES IN THIS ISSUE.Favs included Laki, Black Dog Gone Grey, and Demon's Christmas Carol. Seriously lots of good demon summoning stories in F&SF--there was the pizza one as well as the old person on...
Kinda decided against writing a full review. I just want to quickly write a note about why I am so happy to be a subscriber and my favorite things in this issue. I have read this magazine all my life off and on. Picking it up at the rack when stories by certain authors caught my interest. Recently learning the history of the magazine by researching the co-founder Anthony Boucher for an episode of the podcast (featuring publisher Gordan Van Gelder) really got me thinking about the importance of t...
Good and bad issue. The novella "Mad Milk" was engrossing, but a heavy read. The first few stories of the issue didn't work for me, but "Laki" and "Lajos and his Bees" had a great folkloric feel to them, very good stories.
6 • Broad Dutty Water: a Sunken Story • 26 pages by Nalo Hopkinson Fair. Jacquee is returning to the taz after getting a tech enhancement on land. The dialect/grammar (“is so she’d found him last year”) made it a slog at the start, and the trope of surviving an accident isn’t my favorite. Until it was answered, I was thinking "Why did she bring a pig with here on the trip?" And I’m can’t quite believe the amount of tech, no mention of cost, with the world losing to climate change.32 • A Dime • 8...
Another very mixed bag of an issue, but some absolute wonderful ones were included. I'm definitely going to be pushing Alexander Glass's "The Reckoning" (Kit Marlowe!) and Jennie Goloboy's "A Demon's Christmas Carol" (a demon makes a contract with children) at my friends, as both stories were just fantastic. I also really enjoyed Megan Lindholm's (aka Robin Hobb) "A Dime," which was was mostly unexpected but quite striking at the end. Hayley Stone's "The Black Dog Gone Gray" was quite sweet and
Solid issue with a Holiday flavor and a theme running through it. Here are my favorite stories:- Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story by Nalo HopkinsonPersonal and existential survival are at stake for a young woman and her piggy companion after crashing on an isolated island that holds some surprises for their future and the future of the inundated world. Pairs well with J.G.Ballard’s The Drowned World.- A Vast Silence by T. R. TapperEspionage, international intrigue and murder in Australia. In th...
Mixed bag. A lot of portions of unfinished novels (which I usually hate…have someone else do your critical analysis) but each of them an interesting in their own right. I straight up skipped the longest entry (Mad Milk), the fist couple of pages were so off-putting. But there’s still a lot of like in this issue that seems full of debuts.
