Title: A Woman Naked Author: Christopher Priest Collection: Real-Time World Publisher: New English Library [now available from GrimGrin Studios - gav] Publication Date: February 1976 Christopher Priest sold his first short story in 1966. A Woman Naked first appeared Science Fiction Monthly in 1974. Which makes it a relatively early piece. Certainly it is a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Short Story’
SSM Guest Review: Dirae by Peter S Beagle from Amanda Rutter
Title: Dirae Author: Peter S Beagle Anthology: Warriors Editors: George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois Publisher: Tor US When I read The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, I was enchanted by the lyrical quality of the prose and the vivid imagination of the storytelling. It was a novel that stayed with me long after [...]
SSM Guest Review: The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman from N. R. Alexander
Title: The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains Author: Neil Gaiman Collection: Stories – All New Tales Edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio Publisher: Headline Release Date: Out 15 Jun 2010 in Hardback The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains is a remarkable short story that stands out from even the prestigious company [...]
SSM Guest Review: Ten for the Devil by Charles de Lint from Liz De Jager
Title: Ten for the Devil Author: Charles de Lint Collection: Tapping the Dream Tree Publisher: Tor US Release Date: Out Now Uch, it’s embarrassing really but I am such a huge fan of Charles de Lint’s books. I still fondly remember discovering a few on my “boyfriend’s” bookshelf (now husband) all those years ago and [...]
SSM Guest Review: The Sleeping Serpent by Pamela Sargent from Cara Murphy (@Murf61)
Title: The Sleeping Serpent Author: Pamela Sargent Copyright: 1992 Anthology: The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories Editors: Ian Watson and Ian Whates Publisher: Robinson Publishing (25 Feb 2010) When I read the first paragraph of The Sleeping Serpent I was slightly disorientated and confused…Franks, Mongols and Hiroquois? ‘Where on earth is this story set?’ was [...]
SSM Guest Review: How to Make Monsters by Gary McMahon from Sharon Ring
Collection: How to Make Monsters Author: Gary McMahon Publisher: Morrigan Books Published: Sept 2008 I originally read this collection of stories back in May 2009. It was one of my earliest introductions to Gary McMahon’s work. I’ve reviewed it once already but couldn’t resist the chance to have this collection added to Gav’s Short Story [...]
SSM Guest Review: The Turing Test by Chris Beckett from David Hebblethwaite
Title: The Turing Test Author: Chris Beckett Link: http://www.chris-beckett.com/short-stories/168/the-turing-test-2/ Collection: The Turing Test Publisher: Elastic Press Release date: 2008 (originally published in Interzone, 2002) One of Chris Beckett’s great strengths as a writer is his capacity for capturing the human story behind the science-fictional situations he creates. The title story of his Edge Hill Prize-winning [...]
SSMVideo: Neil Gaiman talks about all things Stories
Neil Gaiman talks about all things Stories – a brand-spanking new short story collection edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. With stories from Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio, Joe Hill, Roddy Doyle, Joanne Harris, Michael Marshall Smith, Walter Mosley, Jodi Picoult, Peter Straub, Chuck Palahniuk, Jonathan Carroll, Jeffrey Deaver, and many others, this is a [...]
SSM Review: From the Lighthouse by Garth Nix (Across the Wall)
Title: From the Lighthouse Author: Garth Nix Collection: Across the Wall Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks Release Date: Out Now in pb A boat arrives on the island of Lisden bringing with it the islands new owner. A One of the islands decides that it’s better off to polite rather than point out the invalid nature of his [...]
SSM Guest Review: At Reparata by Jeffrey Ford from Paul Charles Smith
Title: At Reparata Author: Jeffrey Ford Collection: The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant and Other Stories Publisher: Golden Griffon Press Release Date: 2002 Castle Reparata is a refuge for those on the fringes of society, criminals, madmen, and orphans alike, all given an extravagant title and position by the jovial King. But when his Queen dies, he [...]
