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Mondy’s Recommended Reading – May 2012

Here we go with my May recommendations.  No commentary, I’m a bit short on time, but I am curious to know what you thought of these stories and what else you liked in May. For May I read from the … Continue reading

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Mondy’s Years Best for 2011

What better thing to do, late on a Christmas mornig, then write about my favourite short stories from 2011. Of the 7,000 or so short stories written and published in any one year, I read 185 of them.  Considering one … Continue reading

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Eclipse Four Highlights

I very much like the tone that emerged from the Eclipse anthologies – they all feel like part of the same thing, despite the books being unthemed. This one has an excellent balance of high quality oddball stories, and I … Continue reading

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David Bowie would be so proud

Another anthology from the prolific Jonathan Strahan, Life on Mars invited authors to consider just that topic. A range of approaches has resulted in this collection, from stories dealing with the initial landing on and colonising of Mars, through to … Continue reading

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Online-a-palooza – The Sequel

I am so far behind in my Last Short Story reading.  Of course, my fellow LSSites knew this was going to happen and warned me accordingly.  But still, I secretly believed that they were all just a pile of whingers … Continue reading

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