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more about #charlescolemanfinlay more comments → bonniegrrl: "Fables" needs to just be handed that award. It's filled the Sandman void in my heart and James Jean's covers give me dream material for decades. more » Grey_Area: Okay, this is more like it! Is that Elizabeth Bear short available online? Love her work, missed that story. Those Nebula folk are all taking the craz... more » tawm: Check out the nominees for "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form." Wow. I don't even know how I could begin to choose. Not a Battlestar fan, but the... more » KhaiJB: good luck to Howard Tayler for Schlock Mercenary! more » NerD: Blattella: That list just reminded me I have a hardcover copy of Anathem sitting in my trunk I've been afraid of opening. Also I didn't realize Gaiman had anothe... more » JeffriesTuber: Lots of great works on these lists, but Cory Doctorow is clearly the future of science fiction. more » -
#magazinereview
Post-Apocalyptic Bake Sales And A Pornographic Multiverse, In February F&SF
The latest Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction features stories from two of their most interesting contributors. And they're serving up political, trippy and unsettling tales. More » -
#thepoliticalprisoner
Terraforming A Barren Planet — With Your Bare Hands
Once again, the best thing in the current Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is a very political novella about spying during wartime. Like Robert Reed's "Five Thrillers," which we praised a few months ago, "The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay features spies, political turmoil and genetically altered human colonists at odds with the ortho-humans. This time around, though, it's a sequel to the taut spy story "The Political Officer," which F&SF has just posted online for free. Meanwhile, Maurizio Manzieri, who illustrated Reed's "Five Thrillers," has posted his full artwork. You can see a detail above — click through to see the whole thing. More »
