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The signing starts at 2: Snodgrass Franny Black , John Jos. Other Wild Cards contributors may also drop by… and if they do, Page One will have copies of the earlier books in the series for them to scrawl in. For more details about the signing, check out the Page One website at http: I should stress that this is a Wild Cards signing. You can check out the full results on Tor. My thanks to all our contributors, who helped make the book what it is. A well deserved award for a great story.

This blog is the only place for official communication from George R. Blog Home George's Website. A Dangerous Delivery January 22, at 3: The table of contents will look like this: Another monkey off my back!! Curveball Is Here January 16, at 1: Books and stories both. Curveball Is Coming January 5, at Falksen - 4 stars. Love the idea of the tit-tat. I'll be looking up the novel that this was prequel to. The Iron Shirts, by Michael Flynn - 2 stars. Maybe I was just tired while I was reading it, but I had trouble keeping track of all the Gaelic names and kept getting confused who was who, so I didn't really know what was going on.

Weird little story - I wanted to know more. Lightbringers and Rainmakers, by Felix Gilman - 4 stars.

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Really enjoyed the narrative voice in this one, may pick up the novel that was the first introduction to this world.. Shade, by Steven Gould - 4 stars. Definitely made me want to pick up the Jumper series. Bugs in the Arroyo, by Steven Gould - 4 stars. Evidently this is a sneak peak at a novel yet-to-be-published, and though I loved it I could tell it wasn't quite a complete story.

Steampunk Quartet, by Eileen Gunn - 3 stars. I may have appreciated it more had I been more familiar with the source material she was riffing off of. I guess the chance to be a character in the stories had been auctioned off, so that must have been fun for the people who got to be included, but for the rest of us wasn't especially interesting.

Mother, Crone, Maiden, by Cat Hellisen - 3 stars.

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Yet another short story that's a prequel to an already-published book. It was ok, but didn't really grab me enough to make me buy the book, even having read the sample chapters that were included. I really enjoyed this bittersweet tale of wish granting. I do feel like I missed some of the reading between the lines just because I read it late a night and was sleepy, so I should go back and read it again at some point. Too Fond, by Leanna Renee Hieber - 4 stars. Beautifully written dark tale. At the Foot of the Lighthouse, by Erin Hoffman - 5 stars. A girl with a disturbing gift in a Japanese internment camp during the war.

Ghost Hedgehog, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman - 4 stars. A fifth grade boy finds himself collecting ghosts who have unfinished business. Jackson - 3 stars.

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I think I would have appreciated it more had I read the books that this story is prequel to. I'm finding that's the case with a lot of these stories. It did interest me enough that I might read the Thieftaker Chronicles, so I suppose Jackson did his job: It's not the destination, it's the journey.

Ponies, by Kij Johnson - 3 stars. I'd read this one before, when it was first published on tor. Crazy Me, by James Patrick Kelly - 4 stars. An opthamologist with a doppelganger living in his garage - who's the "real" one, Crazy Me or Demented Me? First Flight, by Mary Robinette Kowal - 5 stars.

Utterly charming time travel story involving the Wright brothers and an unlikely friendship between a centenarian woman from the present and a year-old boy in How to Make a Triffid, by Kelly Lagor - 2 stars. The narrator starts off somewhat sympathetic but got annoying real fast. A Water Matter, by Jay Lake - 4 stars. From the reviews of the novel this was based on, I don't have much interest in reading it, but I did like the short story, particularly the group hunt. The Speed of Time, by Jay Lake - 2 stars. A neat take on first contact. An insider's look at the development of a horrifying new bioweapon.

Not really a story with a plot at all, but an intriguing glimpse into various alien civilizations and their attitudes towards starflight. The price of innocence. Earth Hour, by Ken MacLeod - 3 stars. Not a whole lot to say about this one - it was mildly entertaining, anyway. Farewell Performance, by Nick Mamatas - 2 stars. I understood it, but didn't really get it, if that makes any sense. I liked this take on a vampire story. The Finite Canvas, by Brit Mandelo - 5 stars.

The Hanging Game, by Helen Marshall - 2 stars.

I suppose it was well done but I was definitely not in the right frame of mind to appreciate it when I read it. I might have given it a higher rating another time. I liked the seashells. A unicorn named Steve! Sad portrait of a family struggling to deal with a loss.

Preparations, by Mark Mills - 2 stars. This was just silly. About Fairies, by Pat Murphy - 4 stars. Interesting take on fairy tales. I think this is another one of those that would make more sense if I were familiar with the novels, since it apparently takes place between books 2 and 3 of a trilogy.

Hints of the backstory intrigued me, but I don't know if it caught my interest enough to make me seek them out. Hello, Moto, by Nnedi Okorafor - 2 stars. Neat idea to combine witchcraft and modern technology, but the story didn't do it for me. Too bad, because I was looking forward to this one, having really enjoyed her novel Who Fears Death. Sacrifice of the First Sheason, by Peter Orullian - 5 stars. I really liked this origin story and will definitely be looking up the Vault of Heaven series!

Set in the same world as the above at a much later time. The Battle of the Round, by Peter Orullian - 5 stars. An immediate sequel to the above. I just requested the first book of the series from the library: Sweetheart, by Abbi Mei Otis - 4 stars. How to stop a war?

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Unite humanity against a common enemy. Ragnarok, by Paul Park - no rating. It's not fair of me to give this one star just because I don't like poetry. I'm sure this is a lovely poem, done in the style of the Icelandic Sagas, I believe, I just don't like this kind of thing and couldn't finish it. What do the four horsemen do with themselves when the Apocalypse is over? Pearson - 4 stars. Not sure how it would hold up if you weren't familiar with the source material.

Petty - 3 stars.

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Interesting premise, didn't love the characters. Silver Linings, by Tim Pratt - 4 stars. At first I dismissed the story as just a silly riff on an old idiom, but it took an interesting twist with the revelation of the protagonist's identity and the reason he was in hiding. It might have been 3 stars had I not already been a little familiar with the Wild Cards universe, having read up on the Wikipedia page after reading the first few Wild Cards stories in this collection!

Clockwork Fairies, by Cat Rambo - 3 stars. I liked the premise, but the chauvinistic narrator couldn't be more annoying! I know this was intended, to make a point, and the point was definitely made, but ugh! The Next Invasion, by Robert Reed - 3 stars. Fans of "Night of the Body Snatchers" will enjoy this one ; Our Candidate, by Robert Reed - 3 stars.

Swingers, by Robert Reed - 2 stars. Lovely story, somewhat predictable but very well-done otherwise. Jack of Coins, by Christopher Rowe - 3 stars. Okay story, nothing especially noteworthy about it one way or another - could have been an interesting setting for a longer piece. It kind of made my head hurt, but in a good way.

Good Night, Moon, by Rudy Rucker - 2 stars.

A little too surreal and cyberpunky for me. Loco, by Rudy Rucker - 1 star.

Bizarre little piece of nonsense. I actually really liked this, but it left me unsatisfied and not quite understanding. From the other reviews, it seems that this is another example of a story that would make more sense had I read the book it is based on. Firstborn, by Brandon Sanderson - 5 stars. The man is just that good: Really liked this one.

After the Coup, by John Scalzi - 4 stars. Probably would be a little confusing if I hadn't already read Old Man's War , though. A use for futuristic technology that I hadn't thought of! Prologue, by John Scalzi - 3 stars. I'd read this one before. A very silly spoof on fantasy tropes.

This was really lovely. On the long-ish side for a short story, which allowed for some real character development. An aging clown finds inspiration in an unexpected place! Mining for hope while awaiting the Santaman and his sword ho ho ho. I'd not heard of Ken Scholes before this collection and given that I've just rated all of his stories 4 or 5 stars, I'll definitely be looking up more of his work! Rag and Bone, by Priya Sharma - 4 stars. An alternate England where the wealthy buy body parts from the poor. Do Not Touch, by Prudence Shen - 5 stars. Adventures in museum paintings - this was fun!

Like a lot of these stories, I think I'd have appreciated it more had I been familiar with the novels.

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