Val's Random Comments

This is a review of the short story that originally appeared in Interzone in 1986, the same title was later used for a collection, which ...

Lord of Emperors , the second book in Guy Gavriel Kay's Sarantine Mosaic duology, is pretty much required reading for people who have ...

In January I read Crying in the Rain (1987), a short story by Tanith Lee. It was the first story I read by her and it made me curious abo...

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...