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Fantasy & Science Fiction - February 2005
by hist | Jan 11 '05
A stronger issue than January, but still a ways to go.

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Re: Oncore! (Reply to this comment)
by hist
Ok, May is now up!! I'll be working on March and April (along with the Asimov's reviews) in the near future.

Dave
Apr 24 '05
7:51 pm PDT

Re: Oncore! (Reply to this comment)
by hist
It will be a while before I do any of the other ones. I got behind, and now they're packed away for our move.

I'll try to get them done, but you'll have to just keep an eye out. :-)

Dave
Mar 30 '05
7:37 am PST

Oncore! (Reply to this comment)
by davideland
Hey how about reviewing March, April, May?
Mar 29 '05
7:12 am PST

Re: Nice review. (Reply to this comment)
by hist
Thanks, David!

I'm glad that somebody's getting something out of these. Are you a subscriber? What about the other mags?

I did really like "Dutch," but I'm a big Hughes fan so that one just felt a little bit better than the rest. :-)

Dave
Jan 17 '05
3:24 pm PST

Nice review. (Reply to this comment)
by davideland
Thanks for reviewing F&SF. I agree with much of what you said, although Dutch was the story that I found to be head and shoulders above the rest.

P.S. I saw one small typo in your review. I think "on that was flawed" should have been "one that was flawed."
Jan 17 '05
8:03 am PST

Re: Congrats (Reply to this comment)
by hist
Hey Karyn!

300? Really? I wasn't really aware of that, at least not on a conscious level. Thanks for noticing!

Dave
Jan 12 '05
8:51 pm PST

Congrats (Reply to this comment)
by artemis8
Congrats on review number 300!
And nice review btw too =)
Karyn
Jan 12 '05
8:34 pm PST

Re: Queen of the Balts? (Reply to this comment)
by hist
Hey Andy

It's a series of stories published in F&SF, not a book series at all.

It's clearly based on that area, though Robertson adds a bunch of other stuff to it. They talk about going back to Riga, so it must take place in the equivalent of the Baltic states somewhere. How well it would track with your familiarity, I don't know. :-)

This is the only one I've read, as the other stories were published before I started reading the magazine (One novella was published in the February 2003 issue ("The Bone Witch") and one was published in the December 2003 issue ("Killer of Children")). Actually, I just did a search and there are two more stories. "Death in Love" in the January 2002 issue and "Firebird" in May 2001.

"Firebird" was also reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 2 edited by David Hartwell, so I have read it before. I'd have to go back and read it again, though, as I don't remember it.

Dave
Jan 12 '05
12:50 pm PST

Queen of the Balts? (Reply to this comment)
by panguitch
As in Lithuanians, Latvians, etc., or as in Baltic Germans?

Haven't heard of this series. It could be very interesting to me, since I lived in the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia for two years.

Have you read much of it?

-Andy
Jan 12 '05
11:17 am PST