Category archives: ★★★★

The Future Is Female! Vol. 2: The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women

by Lisa Yaszek (Editor)
  • “Frog Pond” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ★★★★
  • “When It Changed” by Joanna Russ ★★★
  • “If Ever I Should Leave You” by Pamela Sargent ★★★½
  • “Pale Hands” by Doris Piserchia ★★½
  • “A Scarab in the City of Time” by Marta Randall ★★★½
  • “The Anthropologist” by Kathleen M. Sidney
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Real Sugar is Hard to Find

by Sim Kern

Especially in the first half the writing is not a pleasure to read, but I appreciated the imagination.

  • “Real Sugar is Hard to Find” ★★★
  • “The Listener” ★★★½
  • “The Propagator” ★★★★
  • “The New Nomad” ★★★
  • “The Night Heron” ★★★
  • “Tadpoles” ★★
  • “Unwhole” ★★★★
  • “What Can’t Be Undone” ★★★★
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Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 1

Marie Hodgkinson (Editor)
  • “Trees” by Toni Wi ★★★
  • “The Garden” by Isabelle McNeur ★★★½
  • “Logistics” by A.J. Fitzwater ★★★★
  • “The Billows of Sarto” by Sean Monaghan ★★★
  • “A Most Elegant Solution” by M. Darusha Wehm ★★★★★
  • “A Brighter Future” by Grant Stone ★★★½
  • “The Glassblower’s Peace” by James Rowland ★★★½
  • “Mirror
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