Print Collections
Reviews of single-author collections.
Sometimes While Dreaming by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
Sometimes While Dreaming is a chapbook of poetry written by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff. Thirty-seven of the 48 poems in this collection are new. Eight ethereal illustrations by Marge B. Simon accompany them. At her best, Tentchoff is able to put the reader in touch with the souls of some pretty strange people […]
Continue ReadingTall Tales on the Iron Horse by Colin P. Davies
Tall Tales on the Iron Horse is the first collection of short fiction by Colin P. Davies and gathers nineteen tales, the oldest published in 1989 and the most recent in 2006, with some making their first appearance here. Despite this range in publication dates, none of these stories are dated, and in fact, some […]
Continue ReadingTales from the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke
Originally published in 1957, Tales from the White Hart, a collection of fifteen tall tales by Arthur C. Clarke, has been reissued in a smart new fiftieth anniversary edition with an introduction by Stephen Baxter and one new story, a collaboration between Baxter and Clarke himself.
For those more familiar with the Clarke of the […]
Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland
Jennifer Pelland’s first collection, Unwelcome Bodies, is a compendium of dark tales that are truly speculative. Each one embraces a cosmic “what if”—many of the same questions we ask ourselves today—but in Pelland’s stories, we can see the outcome.
The first tale, “For the Plague Thereof Was Exceedingly Great,” starts with a terrible future where HIV […]
Other Voices by Andrew Humphrey
The opening story of Andrew Humphrey’s collection, Other Voices, is a science fiction tale of love and compassion. Set in a time when the world is at war and society is falling apart, “Grief Inc” is about people who have special “gifts” whom the government is making use of as it fights a losing battle. […]
Continue ReadingDagger Key And Other Stories by Lucius Shepard
At 473 pages, Lucius Shepard’s Dagger Key And Other Stories is a collection of nine substantial tales, all except the title story first published in well-known genre venues such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, and SCI FICTION, with an introduction by China Miéville, plus some concluding “Story Notes” by the author. […]
Continue ReadingPump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
In a back cover blurb to Paolo Bacigalupi’s collection, Pump Six and Other Stories, Kelly Link refers to the stories within as cautionary tales. That is exactly the right framework to have in mind when reading these stories. They are extrapolative—some rigorously so and some more whimsical. They can be visceral and […]
Continue ReadingNo Further Messages by Brett Alexander Savory
Brett Alexander Savory’s style comes through from word one in No Further Messages, his new collection of twenty-one short stories from Delirium Books. The first tale, “Messages,” is an immediately collection-defining one, about a woman who recovers manuscripts written by people in fugue states which supposedly contain messages from some higher power. Whether she is […]
Continue Reading20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts was first released by PS Publishing in 2005 with a limited print run. Hill was relatively new on the scene at the time, but 20th Century Ghosts was well received, and it went on to win the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, the 2006 British Fantasy Award […]
Continue ReadingBreaking Hearts and Traffic Lights by Patrick Chapman
Patrick Chapman’s Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights is a collection of poetry which functions as a continuous unit. If this were a piece of music, it would be a concept album. As the differences between songs and poems vary from vague to nonexistent, it should come as no surprise that this is a highly effective […]
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