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Lewis Shiner



"Brujo"
© F&SF, Aug 1982
--/ cool sf story
--/ rare find

"Jeff Beck"
© IASFM, Jan 1986
--Asimov's Reader's Poll 1987 Short Story
--Locus Poll Award 1987

--/ cool sf story

"Mozart In Mirrorshades"
(with Bruce Sterling)
© Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, 1986
--short story : 1986 Locus /17
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award


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Lewis Shiner
"Scales"

© "Alien Sex", ed. by E. Datlow, 1990
Love In Vain, 2001
--/ fourth place f story
--/ emotion award
--/ shock value
--/ rare find

I was simply enchanted by the quiet, very sensitive storytelling of Lewis Shiner in this story: significantly different from his edgy cyberpunk offerings: in fact, he writes from the viewpoint of a woman, trustworthy wife who encounters a sex vampire stealing her husband and her daughter... great treatment of an age-old subject, very high quality prose.

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"Sitcom"
© IASFM, Jan 1995
--short story : 1996 Asimov's Reader Poll /9 (tie)
--/ cool sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award
--/ rare find


"Stuff of Dreams"
© F&SF, Apr 1981
--novelette : 1982 Locus
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ adventure award
--/ idea award
--/ style award
--/ rare find


"Till Human Voices Wake Us"
© F&SF, 1984
Mirrorshades, 1986 -a
--/ cool sf story
--/ wonder award

"Twilight Time"
© IASFM, Apr 1984
--novelette : 1985 Locus /19
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ adventure award
--/ idea award
--/ style award
--/ rare find


"The Workshop Lexicon" (nf)
(with Bruce Sterling)
© 1990, Interzone
--/ cool sf story
--/ humour award

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