Comments on: 2006 speculative fiction recommendations

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:02:48 +0000

By the way, I was out somewhere a day or two ago when it occurred to me that one of my favourite stories of 2006 was
The Measure of Eternity by Sean McMullen, from Interzone #205, which seems to have slipped under your radar(s). Highly recommended mathematical fable.

By: Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:41:33 +0000

Thanks, Ellen. I can see a pattern developing here. Have moved it. I must read “La Profonde”. I love Terry’s work and I have Basic Black on my shelf but haven’t got to it.

By: Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:21:01 +0000

Terry Dowling’s “La Profonde” is only 3300 words.

By: Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:47:52 +0000

Whoops. Wasn’t thinking. Please pass on my apologies to Lyn.

By: Lee Battersby

Lee Battersby — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:56:03 +0000

I have nothing to do with Ticonderoga Online. It is edited by LYN Battersby and others.

By: Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:27:24 +0000

Thanks, Paul. I’ll move it into the longer category. Novella/Novelette covers 7,500 words to 40,000 words, in which case I might need to move a few other stories, too.

By: Haines

Haines — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:38:45 +0000

Happy to see Mr Pussy there, though I think the word count on that story pushes it into novella length. I think it’s about 9000 words long.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:43:07 +0000

Excellent list!
It’s a shame that quite a bit of this has been hard to find in Oz. Scott Westerfeld’s The Last Days isn’t out here yet… Eidolon 1 was a bastard to find in Sydney (Galaxy claiming to know nothing, I finally got it at Infinitas in Parramatta)… There’s one Margo story available only in the UK edition…
But anyway, lots of great stuff there!

By: Perry Middlemiss

Perry Middlemiss — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:17:45 +0000

It probably slipped under the wire but Locus magazine named “Passarola Rising” by Azhar Abidi as their best sf novel of the year.