I'll be interested about this one. Ballantyne's debut story, The Fifth VNM, was excellent but the rest of his stories have been a bit erratic and peppered with utter cobblers like Gorillagram.
I actually thought the two stories he had in IZ last year ('The Waters of Meribah' and 'The Ugly Truth') were his best so far; they're the main reason I'm looking forward to Recursion so much. He seems to actually understand what 'writing an sf short story' means - he really does write stories where the ideas are important to the plot, and not just colour.
I do wonder about Tor UK sometimes.
They're publishing Jeff Vandermeer and Gene Wolfe and, so far as I can tell, more debut sf novels this year than the rest of the UK publishers put together. I think, on balance, they're probably a good thing. :)
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Date: 2004-05-27 06:38 am (UTC)I actually thought the two stories he had in IZ last year ('The Waters of Meribah' and 'The Ugly Truth') were his best so far; they're the main reason I'm looking forward to Recursion so much. He seems to actually understand what 'writing an sf short story' means - he really does write stories where the ideas are important to the plot, and not just colour.
I do wonder about Tor UK sometimes.
They're publishing Jeff Vandermeer and Gene Wolfe and, so far as I can tell, more debut sf novels this year than the rest of the UK publishers put together. I think, on balance, they're probably a good thing. :)