Val's Random Comments

Last year I read Drowned Worlds (2016), a Jonathan Strahan's anthology of climate change fiction. It had a few good stories in it, bu...

Norman Spinrad made his name as part of the New Wave in the 1960s. It is the period in science fiction where things start to get interesti...

High Stakes is the 23rd book in the shared world series Wild Cards, and the final book in what has become known as the Mean Streets Triad...

And that completes short fiction month. I managed to read 31 stories this month and write about 30 of them. I didn't think I would manag...

For the final story in Short Fiction Month, I picked The Long Chase by Geoffrey A. Landis. His work is primarily short fiction of which I...

Reiko's Universe Box by Shinji Kajio is one of the many translations in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's enormous anthology The Big Book...

These days, pretty much everything that is being published by this author, appears under the pseudonym Robin Hobb. Once in a while a story...

I have read quite a few pieces of short fiction by Nancy Kress. She seems most comfortable writing novella length pieces (to the point whe...

Blood Music is probably Greg Bear's best known story. It appeared in Analogue in June 1983 and won both the Hugo and Nebula Award for...

Walking Awake is one of the original stories in Lightspeed's special edition Women Destroy Science Fiction . Jemisin is very successf...