Programmed Love Story - Ian Watson

Wife whore personality.


3 out of 5

A Typical Day - Doris Piserchia

Breeding experiment demands.


3 out of 5

Songs Of War - Kit Reed

Revolution women, non-stick.


4 out of 5

The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter - Angela Carter

The high chop fetish unrewarded.


3 out of 5

The Scream - Kate Wilhelm

Running out of people. Scientists, too.


4 out of 5

Lost and Found - Thomas Baum

Play generation.


3 out of 5

Owing To Circumstances Beyond Our Control 1984 Has Been Unavoidably Detained - Alan Coren

Owing To Circumstances Beyond Our Control 1984 Has Been Unavoidably Detained


3.5 out of 5

The Rise Of Airstrip One - Clive James

Concorde silly.


3 out of 5

Paleontology: An Experimental Science - Robert Olsen

If you make a Rex, they will break stuff, eat stuff, kill stuff. Imagine that.


4.5 out of 5

Listen With Big Brother - Brian Aldiss

Patriotic crims.


3.5 out of 5

When Petals Fall - Sydney Van Scyoc

Immortality message rejection.


4 out of 5

Marnie - Ian R. MacLeod

Younger relationship.


3 out of 5

Escape - Ilya Varshavsky

Psi-test stress.


3.5 out of 5

The Windows In Dante's Hell - Michael Bishop

Beating up your younger self.


3 out of 5

Early Bird - Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas

Big sperm powerup.


3.5 out of 5

Sister Francetta and the Pig Baby - Kenneth Bernard

Ugly kid, works ok though.


2.5 out of 5

La Befana - Gene Wolfe

Jesus, Bananas, what a witch.


3 out of 5

Captain Nemo's Last Adventure - Josef Nesvadba

Robot spacemen better.


3 out of 5

The Man Who Collected the First Of September - Tor Age Bringsvaerd

Offsite backups, dude.


3 out of 5

Ten Years Ago - Max Beerbohm

If an author has written a completely irrelevant note short short piece about what he thought a painting might be AND hidden it behind the painting so no-one can find it, why the hell would you publish something that irrelevant in a Year's Best Science Fiction? Too much of that dust jacket plonk?


1 out of 5

The Birds - Thomas Disch

Duck Dodgers not so good.


3 out of 5

We Are Very Happy Here - Joe Haldeman

Stuck in an interstellar war for a bloody longtime, lying bastard Army.


5 out of 5

Serpent Burning On the Altar - Brian Aldiss

Magician groper.


2.5 out of 5

Welcome To the Standard Nightmare - Robert Sheckley

One barbarian overlord right here.


4 out of 5

Mason's Life - Kingsley Amis

Dream? Yikes!


3 out of 5

Whatever Happened To the Olmecs? - Kate Wilhelm

Dead parent alien contact plant.


3 out of 5

The National Pastime - Norman Spinrad

Combat Football.


4 out of 5

Parthen - R. A. Lafferty

Happy without us, girls?


3 out of 5

Parthen - R. A. Lafferty

Happy without us, girls?


3 out of 5

The Problem Of Pain - Poul Anderson

Flying alien religion misunderstanding poisonous.


3 out of 5

Ghosts - Robert F. Young

Kid making.


2.5 out of 5

Think Only This Of Me - Michael Kurland

Superwoman loyalty limitations.


3.5 out of 5

The Population Implosion - Theodore R. Cogswell

All those ancestors are a load of bull.


3 out of 5

Androids Don't Cry - Edward Wellen

Cyborg family leave payout.


3.5 out of 5

Thou Good and Faithful - Thomas N. Scortia

Dog planet manipulation.


3.5 out of 5

On Venus Have We Got A Rabbi - William Tenn

Space Age Jew certainly can be blue.


2.5 out of 5

Dark Icarus - Bob Shaw

Hawk cop fireman takedown.


4 out of 5

Born With the Dead - Robert Silverberg

Ex-life wife pursuit not so interesting when examined cold.


4 out of 5

Born With the Dead - Robert Silverberg

Ex-life wife pursuit not so interesting when examined cold.


4 out of 5

Born With the Dead - Robert Silverberg

Ex-life wife pursuit not so interesting when examined cold.


4 out of 5

We Purchased People - Frederik Pohl

Alien sex control destruction.


4 out of 5