Ian R. MacLeod

"Breathmoss" © IASFM, May 2002 --novella : 2003 Hugo --shortlist : 2003 Sturgeon --novella : 2003 Locus /7 --novella : 2003 Asimov's Reader Poll W --novella : 2004 Nebula --/ cool sf novella --/ wonder award "Elen O'Hara" © 1995, IASFM Voyages By Starlight, 1997 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award ---------------------------------------------- Ian R. MacLeod "The Giving Mouth" © IASFM, March 1991 Voyages by Starlight, 1996 --/ fourth place f story --/ wonder award --/ idea award --/ style award --/ shock value --/ rare find This is the most peculiar epic fantasy you ever likely to read (I realize this is quite a statement). Very stylish, very Ursula Le Guin-like at first (think of her low-key "Orsinian Tales"), it evolves into a ferocious Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique spawn, at once disgusting and irresistibly complex. Wonderful tour-de-force, liked it very much. "The Giving Mouth" features a fantasy landscape of mining, coal and smoke where knights in animated armor ride steamhorses made of "liveiron." Soon it enters highly-cinematic territory, later explored by Michael Swanwick and China Mieville: post-industrial monsters with weird eating habits, wonderfully detailed epic quest and gross-out ending. ---------------------------------------------- "Grownups" © IASFM, Jun 1992 Voyages by Starlight, 1997 --Asimov's Reader's Poll 1993, Novella --Hugo Award 1993, Best Novella ---Locus Poll Award 1993, Best Novella /10 --James Tiptree, Jr. Award 1992, Novella --/ cool f story --/ emotion award "Isabel Of The Fall" © Interzone, Jul 2001 --shortlist : 2002 Sturgeon --novelette : 2002 Locus /6 --short story : 2002 British SF --fiction : 2002 Interzone Poll /7 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ idea award "The Family Football" © Interzone, Nov 1991 Weird Tales, Spr 1999 --fiction : 1992 Interzone Poll /3 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award "New Light On The Drake Equation" © Sci Fiction, May 2001 --shortlist : 2002 Sturgeon --novella : 2002 Locus /7 --/ fourth place sf novella --/ wonder award --/ style award --/ emotion award "Starship Day" © IASFM, July 1995 Voyages By Starlight, 1997 --novelette : 1996 Locus /17 --/ fourth place sf story --/ wonder award --/ emotion award "The Summer Isles" © IASFM, Oct 1998 --novella : 1999 Hugo --novella : 1999 World Fantasy W --third place : 1999 Sturgeon /3 --novella : 1999 Locus /5 --short form : 1999 Sidewise W --novella : 1999 Asimov's Reader Poll /2 ----------------------------------------------

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