Snow - John Crowley

Memorial replay random deterioration.


4 out of 5

Flying Saucer Rock and Roll - Howard Waldrop

Blackout showstopper.


3.5 out of 5

After the Siege - Cory Doctorow

http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_After_the_Siege.html

Royalties of infowar.


4 out of 5

Lord Weary's Empire - Michael Swanwick

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/lordweary.shtml

Kill elf, join gang, blow shit up, get girlie for horses.


4 out of 5

Julian A Christmas Story - Robert Charles Wilson

http://www.kith.org/RCW/Julian_Christmas.pdf

Conscripts in a fallen future like snakes more than Indy does.


3 out of 5

A Billion Eves - Robert Reed

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/Abillioneves.shtml

Multiversal misanthropy.


3.5 out of 5

Where the Golden Apples Grow - Kage Baker

Road trip not good.


3.5 out of 5

The Little Goddess - Ian McDonald

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0604_5/littlegoddess.shtml

Aeai multi-skull skill Nepal getaway.


3.5 out of 5

The Concrete Jungle - Charles Stross

http://www.goldengryphon.com/Stross-Concrete.html

Bob gets called out on account of a monster program called SATAN STARE, that ties back into some past work for the Laundry and others.

He has to recruit, quickly, a pretty with it cop, and she helps him combat the beast, and the odd zombie.


4 out of 5

Shadow Twin - Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/dozois-martin-abraham/dozois-martin-abraham1.html

Alien tether oversight escape.


3 out of 5

Sergeant Chip - Bradley Denton

Dog's days of war PR betrayal promotion.


4.5 out of 5

Mayflower II - Stephen Baxter

Long trip oversight.


4 out of 5

Men Are Trouble - James Patrick Kelly

http://www.jimkelly.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114&Itemid=41

Dame overload detection devilish.


4 out of 5

Off On A Starship - William Barton

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0501/starship.shtml

Space home tour, robot girlfriend included.


4 out of 5

Awake In the Night - John C. Wright

Awake in the Night - John C. Wright

Preparing for weird.


3.5 out of 5

Jailwise - Lucius Shepard

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/shepard5/shepard54.html

Arty prison transferee surprised by sexual mirror chameleons.


3.5 out of 5

The Empress Of Mars - Kage Baker

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0406/empressofmars.shtml

Pub float.


3 out of 5

Orm the Beautiful - Elizabeth Bear

http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_01_07.html

The last dragon makes a deal with a museum.


4.5 out of 5

The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small - Chris Roberson

http://www.chrisroberson.net/2008/01/free-fiction-friday-sky-is-large-and.html

Chinese Mexican astronomical intelligence.


3.5 out of 5

Winter's Wife - Elizabeth Hand

A rocky end for local entrepreneur's saga.


4 out of 5

The Valley Of the Gardens - Tony Daniel

Extrauniversal octopus minds are all grabby-blasty-tentacle, but slow to choke.


4 out of 5

Urdumheim - Michael Swanwick

Learn your letters, Nimrod.


4 out of 5

Jesus Christ Reanimator - Ken Macleod

Second coming, blogging, shooting.


3 out of 5

Last Contact - Stephen Baxter

Ripped off.


4 out of 5

The Witch's Headstone - Neil Gaiman

Visibly grave talk.


4 out of 5

Kiosk - Bruce Sterling

Fabrication pirates.


3 out of 5

By Fools Like Me - Nancy Kress

Vegetation shortage book bashers.


3.5 out of 5

Wizard's Six - Alex Irvine

Kid pack kill decision.


3 out of 5

The Prophet of Flores - Ted Kosmatka

Hobbit descent discovery doctrine defiance.


3.5 out of 5

Dead Horse Point - Daryl Gregory

Girl, Interrupted keeper drained.


3 out of 5

Glory - Greg Egan

Antimatter lightspeed starblast instantiation means mathematical archaeology discovery decision.


4.5 out of 5

Trunk and Disorderly - Charles Stross

Dwarf mammoths are heavy. Supreme planetary overlords have bloody big houses. Multigendered metalflesh relations are jolly complex, old chap.


4 out of 5

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - Ted Chiang

Wormhole time tender's raconteur replay.


4 out of 5

The Djinn's Wife - Ian McDonald

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/thedjinnswife.shtml

Computer cops crimp AI's carnal cavorting with calisthenic chick.


4 out of 5

The House Beyond Your Sky - Benjamin Rosenbaum

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060904/house-f.shtml

Making a universal mess of it.


2.5 out of 5

Sob In the Silence - Gene Wolfe

Horrific writer's fate well deserved.


4 out of 5

Femaville 29 - Paul Di Filippo

Tsunami refugeee imagineering exodus.


4 out of 5

D.A. - Connie Willis

Space cadet Shanghai surprise.


4 out of 5

The Saffron Gatherers - Elizabeth Hand

Archaeological expedition earthquake overflight.


3.5 out of 5

The Wizards Of Perfil - Kelly Link

Scary sorcery lacks youthful replenishment.


4 out of 5

Eight Episodes - Robert Reed

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/8episodes.shtml

http://escapepod.org/podpress_trac/web/222/0/EP107_EightEpisodes.mp3


4 out of 5

Journey Into the Kingdom - M. Rickert

Rules for snogging. 1. Check for life. 2. Check if human.


3 out of 5

The Cartesian Theater - Robert Charles Wilson

AI's secret hiring post double death act suicide promotion of philosophy.


4 out of 5

The American Dead - Jay Lake

Tomb sex death escape is smoking.


4 out of 5

Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter - Geoff Ryman

http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/extras/GeoffRyman_PolPotsBeautifulDaughter.pdf

Surfeit of spirits.


3 out of 5

The Yellow Card Man - Paolo Bacigalupi

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/yellowcard.shtml

Fallen biotech magnate takes insults badly.


4 out of 5

The Bible Repairman - Tim Powers

Broken soul ghost ransomer's burning to edit.


3 out of 5

Halfway House - Frances Hardinge

Butterfly piecemeal.


2.5 out of 5

A Siege Of Cranes - Benjamin Rosenbaum

http://www.allstarstories.com/rosenbaum-siege.html

Witch girl's zombie baby scorched earth revenge.


4.5 out of 5

The Night Whiskey - Jeffrey Ford

Death booze corpse recall putdown getaway.


4 out of 5

Incarnation Day - Walter Jon Williams

Parental supervision control program subversion.


4.5 out of 5

Under Hell Over Heaven - Margo Lanagan

Purgatory point scoring.


3.5 out of 5

Another Word For Map Is Faith - Nancy Kress

Religiously correct landscaping writ large.


3 out of 5

In the House of the Seven Librarians - Ellen Klages

Taxonomically sheltered upbringing.


4 out of 5

I Row-boat - Cory Doctorow

http://flurb.net/1/doctorow.htm

Asimovian reef revival survival.


4.5 out of 5

El Regalo - Peter S. Beagle

Witch boy sororal rescue.


4 out of 5

How To Talk To Girls At Parties - Neil Gaiman

http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories/partiesstorytext

Ordinary party and alien chicks = run away.


3.5 out of 5

The Little Goddess - Ian McDonald

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0604_5/littlegoddess.shtml

Aeai multi-skull skill Nepal getaway.


3.5 out of 5

I Robot - Cory Doctorow

Baby arrival brings brainy Big Brother bot researcher's defection and later reunion desires in multiple.


4.5 out of 5

The Fate Of Mice - Susan Palwick

Scary escape plan.


4 out of 5

The Calorie Man - Paolo Bacigalupi

Generipper murder massacre's unlikely Johnny Appleseed monopoly breaker.


5 out of 5

The King of Where-I-Go - Howard Waldrop

First she bashes me in the head. Then she gets psionic time control powers to do it again. Or, cure is fishing atrophied.


4 out of 5

Finished - Robert Reed

Just a robogigolo.


4 out of 5

They Will Raise You In A Box - Wil McCarthy

Information overthrow.


4 out of 5

The Blemmye's Strategem - Bruce Sterling

Alien assistant Crusade martyrdom.


3.5 out of 5

The Fulcrum - Gwyneth Jones

Anti-information score dangerous.


3 out of 5

Understanding Space and Time - Alastair Reynolds

Martian sole survivor's Elton imaginary friend accidental ending gets machine man revival upgrade cosmological study session black hole comeback.


4.5 out of 5

Is There Life After Rehab? - Pat Cadigan

Maybe undead again.


4 out of 5

The Second Coming Of Charles Darwin - James Morrow

LOGO evolution tortoise defense.


4 out of 5

Little Faces - Vonda N. McIntyre

Symbiote, shag, ship, sibling, seeya.


4 out of 5

Triceratops Summer - Michael Swanwick

Time loop holiday.


4.5 out of 5

Inclination - William Shunn

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/Inclination.shtml

Basic Machine boy gets retooled.


3.5 out of 5

A Billion Eves - Robert Reed

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/Abillioneves.shtml

Multiversal misanthropy.


3.5 out of 5

The House Beyond Your Sky - Benjamin Rosenbaum

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060904/house-f.shtml

Making a universal mess of it.


2.5 out of 5

Me-Topia - Adam Roberts

Neanderthal uplift planetary exclusion.


4 out of 5

Life On the Preservation - Jack Skillingstead

Daily alien revisit.


3 out of 5

Exit Before Saving - Ruth Nestvold

http://futurismic.com/2006/08/02/new-fiction-from-ruth-nestvold-2/#more-897

Absent fraternal experimental transformation overload.


4.5 out of 5

Incarnation Day - Walter Jon Williams

Parental supervision control program subversion.


4.5 out of 5

Hesperia and Glory - Anne Leckie

http://escapepod.org/2007/11/08/ep131-hesperia-and-glory/

Well, it is sword and planet time.


3.5 out of 5

The Cartesian Theater - Robert Charles Wilson

AI's secret hiring post double death act suicide promotion of philosophy.


4 out of 5

Saving for a Sunny Day - Ian Watson

Barcode karma cycle conversation sought.


4 out of 5

Okanoggan Falls - Carolyn Ives Gilman

Alien invasion imitation co-operation landscaping strategy.


4.5 out of 5

Another Word For Map Is Faith - Christopher Rowe

Religiously correct landscaping writ large.


3 out of 5

Understanding Space and Time - Alastair Reynolds

Martian sole survivor's Elton imaginary friend accidental endings gets machine man revival upgrade cosmological study session black hole comeback.


4.5 out of 5

The Jenna Set - Daniel Kaysen

The Jenna Set - Daniel Kaysen

Palavatar content monitor space.


4 out of 5

You By Anonymous - Stephen Leigh

http://www.farrellworlds.com/you.mp3

Elephant self-involvement.


3.5 out of 5

Finished - Robert Reed

Just a robogigolo.


4 out of 5

The King of Where-I-Go - Howard Waldrop

First she bashes me in the head. Then she gets psionic time control powers to do it again. Or, cure is fishing atrophied.


4 out of 5

The Fate Of Mice - Susan Palwick

Scary escape plan.


4 out of 5

The Edge of Nowhere - James Patrick Kelly

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/edgeofnowhere.htm

Bad dogs and old stories.


4 out of 5

Triceratops Summer - Michael Swanwick

Time loop holiday.


4.5 out of 5