Dave Hook
The short: I finally read the most recent collection by Theodora Goss, “Letters from an Imaginary Country“, 2025 Tachyon Publications. It includes a great Introduction by Jo Walton, sixteen works of short speculative fiction (it leans more to fantasy and horror but with a bit of SF), and Story...
Dave Hook
The Short: I just read The Big Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow editor, 2025 Open Road Integrated Media (a re-issue of the 2008 Del Rey/Ballantine The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy). It’s an original anthology. The title is somewhat of a misnomer, as I believe it...
Dave Hook
The Short: The Best of Ian McDonald, 2016 PS Publishing, came out in two different editions of SF/fantasy/horror, a deluxe edition with twenty-one stories and one with ten stories. My e-book version of the deluxe edition also has a “Story Notes” essay by McDonald. My favorite story is “Unfinished...