AndyHat's 2003 Recommended Reading

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Novellas

• "Walk in Silence", Catherine Asaro (Analog 4/03)
• "The Empress of Mars", Kage Baker (Asimov's 7/03)
• Dear Abbey, Terry Bisson (PS Publishing)
• "Greetings", Terry Bisson (Sci Fiction 9/3/03)
• Struck, Geoffrey Bromhead (Anvil Press)
• "The Time That Time Forgot", Jack Cady (Ghosts of Yesterday)
• "Exorcising Angels", Simon Clark & Tim Lebbon (Exorcising Angels)
• "The Bone Witch", R. Garcia y Robertson (F&SF 2/03)
• "Pictures from an Expedition", Alex Irvine (F&SF 9/03)
• "Counting Crows", Mercedes Lackey (Charmed Destinies)
• The Teratologist, Edward Lee & Wrath James White (Medium Rare Books)
• "Jailwise", Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 6/4/03)
• In & Oz, Steve Tomasula (Ministry of Whimsy)
• "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know", Connie Willis (Asimov's 12/03)

Novelettes

• "The Census Taker", Dale Bailey (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "Old Virginia", Laird Barron (F&SF 2/03)
• "Anomalous Structures of My Dreams", M. Shayne Bell (F&SF 1/03)
• "The Hydrogen Wall", Gregory Benford (Asimov's 10-11/03)
• "Poison", Beth Bernobich (Strange Horizons 1/20/03)
• "The Trismegistus Club", James P. Blaylock (In for a Penny)
• "The Pink Ribbon", A. S. Byatt (Little Black Book of Stories)
• "Fashion Victims", Stephen Dedman (Borderlands #1)
• "Clouds and Cold Fires", Paul Di Filippo (Live Without a Net)
• "The Empire of Ice Cream", Jeffrey Ford (Sci Fiction 2/26/03)
• "Bitter Grounds", Neil Gaiman (Mojo: Conjure Stories)
• "A Study in Emerald", Neil Gaiman (Shadows over Baker Street)
• "Impala", John Gonzalez (Trampoline)
• "Angels and You Dogs", Kathleen Ann Goonan (Sci Fiction 7/2/03)
• "Burning Day", Glenn Grant (Island Dreams)
• "The Perfect Pilgrim", Jim Grimsley (Asimov's 2/03)
• "With Acknowledgements to Sun Tzu", Brian Hodge (The Third Alternative #33)
• "Babylon Falling", Brian Keene (The Rise and Fall of Babylon)
• "Closing Time", Jack Ketchum (Peaceable Kingdom)
• "Into the Gardens of Sweet Night", Jay Lake (Writers of the Future Volume XIX)
• "Love in a Time of Dragons", Tanith Lee (The Dragon Quintet)
• "Tiny Berries", Richard A. Lovett (Analog 9/03)
• "Child of the Stones", Paul McAuley (Sci Fiction 11/12/03)
• "Pale Dog", Tim Pratt (Little Gods)
• Epiphany: A Flying Tiger's Story, Stephen Mark Rainey (Delirium Books)
• "Like Minds", Robert Reed (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "Golden Bird", Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's 1/03)
• "Jenna and Me", Rudy Rucker & Rudy Rucker, Jr. (The Infinite Matrix 2/11/03)
• "Tropical Nights at the Natatorium", Richard Paul Russo (F&SF 9/03)
• "The Same Old Story", Lucius Shepard (Polyphony 2)
• "Señor Volto", Lucius Shepard (Sci Fiction 2/12/03)
• "The Madwoman of Shuttlefield", Allen M. Steele (Asimov's 5/03)
• "Nightfall", Charles Stross (Asimov's 4/03)
• "King Dragon", Michael Swanwick (The Dragon Quintet)
• "Legions in Time", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 4/03)
• "Unsportsmanlike Conduct", Scott Westerfeld (Sci Fiction 4/9/03)
• "Death Did Not Become Him", David Niall Wilson & Patricia Lee Macomber (Shadows over Baker Street)

Short Stories

• "Scrapbook for an Epidemic", Barth Anderson (Flytrap 11/03)
• "You Go Where It Takes You", Nathan Ballingrud (Sci Fiction 7/16/03)
• "Click", Gary Barwin (Descant #122)
• "Through Soft Air", Lee Battersby (Borderlands #1)
• "Chrysalide", Beth Bernobich (Polyphony 2)
• "Dr. Susan Lee Research Notes: Leopolda's Song", John Borneman (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 2/03)
• "Danaïd Night", Gary A. Braunbeck (A Little Orange Book of Odd Stories)
• "Reflections Of...", Gary A. Braunbeck (Chiaroscuro 4-6/03; A Little Orange Book of Odd Stories)
• "The Music Box", P. D. Cacek (Cemetery Dance #45)
• "The Lady with the Blind Dog", Jack Cady (Ghosts of Yesterday)
• "Gramercy Park", Haddayr Copley-Woods (Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats)
• "Salting the Map", Alan DeNiro (Fortean Bureau 12/03)
• "Bare Market", Paul Di Filippo (Interzone 1/03)
• "The Constellation Game", Rudi Dornemann (Fortean Bureau 12/03)
• "Fairy Tale", Gardner Dozois (Sci Fiction 1/15/03)
• "I Killed Them in Vegas", Esther M. Friesner (F&SF 9/03)
• "The Medusa Dishroom", Eric Gardner (Full Unit Hookup #3)
• "The Arts of Malediction", Lisa Goldstein (Polyphony 2)
• "Four Short Novels", Joe Haldeman (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "Flow of Time and Water", Rachel S. Heslin (Intracities)
• "Nobody's Car", Robert Hood (Ideomancer 1/03)
• "The Small Miracle", Rhys Hughes (Nemonymous #3)
• "The Uterus Garden", Alex Irvine (Polyphony 2)
• "...What a Spaceman's Gotta Do", Daniel Kaysen (Strange Horizons 2/3/03)
• "The Bluest of Grey Skies", Michael Kelly (Nemonymous #3)
• "Points of Contact", John Keyes (Descant #122)
• "Harvey's Dream", Stephen King (The New Yorker 6/30/03)
• "Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur", Paul LaFarge (Politically Inspired)
• "The Headline Trick", Douglas Lain (Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats)
• "The Beauty of Our Weapons", Jay Lake (Full Unit Hookup #4)
• "Over the Walls of Eden", Jay Lake (Descant #122)
• "I Wear Mourning, Seeing a World of Deceit", Robert Lake (Descant #122)
• "The Lost and Found of Years", Claude Lalumière (Intracities)
• "The God Behind the Glass", Richard Larson (Electric Velocipede #5)
• "The Tale of the Golden Eagle", David D. Levine (F&SF 6/03)
• "Pale Horse", Kevin Levites (Analog 9/03)
• Sideshow and Other Stories, Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean Press)
• "Ghost Dancing", Jason Erik Lundberg (Four Seasons in One Day)
• "Night Off", Jason Erik Lundberg (Four Seasons in One Day)
• "Past Tense", Patricia Lee Macomber (Cemetery Dance #42)
• "Why I Became a Plumber", Sara Maitland (On Becoming a Fairy Godmother)
• "Bush of Ghosts", Geoffrey Maloney (Tales from the Crypto-System)
• "A Very Long War", Geoffrey Maloney (Tales from the Crypto-System)
• "joanierules.bloggermax.com", Nick Mamatas (Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats)
• "Scarlet Women Watch TV Till Dawn", Nick Mamatas (3000 Miles Per Hour in Every Direction at Once)
• "Blind Lion", Nye Marnach (Full Unit Hookup #4)
• The Law of Gravity Isn't Working on Rainbow Bridge, Jack McDevitt (Buffalo Fantasy League / W. Paul Ganley)
• "Ancestor Money", Maureen F. McHugh (Sci Fiction 10/1/03)
• "Frankenstein's Daughter", Maureen F. McHugh (Sci Fiction 4/2/03)
• "Three Bean & Moon Salad", Christoph Meyer (Electric Velocipede #5)
• "The Navatar", Jerry Oltion (F&SF 10-11/03)
• "Morlock Chili", Lawrence Person (Asimov's 6/03)
• "The Birds of Isla Mujeres", Steven Popkes (F&SF 1/03)
• "The Scent of Copper Pennies", Tim Pratt (Far Sector 1/03; Little Gods)
• "Robots Don't Cry", Mike Resnick (Asimov's 7/03)
• "The Machine", M. Rickert (F&SF 1/03)
• "O One", Chris Roberson (Live Without a Net)
• "Dead White Guys", Bruce Holland Rogers (Polyphony 2)
• "The Rower", Bruce Holland Rogers (Descant #122)
• "Cechas!", Judi Rohrig (Extremes 5: Fantasy & Horror from the Ends of the Earth)
• "Nutball Season", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Sci Fiction 12/24/03)
• "Ferret", Kiini Ibura Salaam (The Infinite Matrix 1/1/03)
• "The Hotel", Jessica Amanda Salmonson (The Deep Museum)
• "Blue Chuck Does Thrilltown", Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt (The Urban Bizarre)
• "Broken Branches", Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt (Intracities)
• "Mrs. Janokowski Hits One out of the Park", William Shunn (Electric Velocipede #4)
• "Brain Worms Crave Soul Food", Bryan Smith (Under the Skin)
• "Being Right", Michael Marshall Smith (More Tomorrow and Other Stories)
• "The Defragmentation of Thomas Crane", Jeff Somers (The Urban Bizarre)
• "Smoke and Mirrors: Four Scenes from the Postutopian Future", Michael Swanwick (Live Without a Net)
• "The Bereavement Photographer", Steve Rasnic Tem (13 Horrors)
• "The Collector", Alinta Thornton (Borderlands #2)
• "Perfect", Paul G. Tremblay (Vivisections)
• "The Former King of France", John Urbancik (Sound & Vision)
• "In the Late December", Greg van Eekhout (Strange Horizons 12/22/04)
• "Master Plan; Or, The Art of Tragedy in Relation to Human Morphology", Marc Venema (Descant #122)
• "Ten Bears; or, a Journey to the Weterings", Henry Wessells (The New York Review of Science Fiction 10/03)
• "That Which Does Not Kill Us", Scott Westerfeld (Agog! Terrific Tales; Say...aren't you dead?)
• "Genie", Tamar Yellin (Nemonymous #3)
• "Waiting for Jenny Rex", Melissa Yuan-Innes (Full Unit Hookup #3)
• "Line on the Palm", Zoran Zivkovic (Interzone 1/03)

Last updated: Wed Apr 28 01:41:06 2004 US/Eastern