Robots falling in love with each other, suicide-addicted thrill seekers who are uploaded into new bodies each time they die, societies where citizens are given a certain number of hours to live and a built-in clock they can monitor as it ticks down, sentient beings born inside computer networks… Alan loved this new collection from… Continue reading

One of the questions I ask when reviewing a single author anthology is ‘what’s special about it?’ There are plenty of story collections that are perfectly good but nonetheless fail to create that frisson of intrigue that makes them shine. In Pete W. Sutton’s A Tiding of Magpies, reissued last year with extra stories, I… Continue reading