Locus Recommended Short Fiction

The Feb issue of Locus contains the Year in Review feature (plus a ton of other great stuff) and the 2007 Recommended Reading List.

I've decided to start working my way through the 57 recommended short stories (which, for those of you too lazy to click on the above link, I've included below). The idea is to read a story and write a brief blog entry on it. Bring on the caffeine!

Short Stories:
"Clockmaker's Requiem", Barth Anderson (Clarkesworld 3/07)
"The Ruby Incomparable", Kage Baker (Wizards)
"Last Contact", Stephen Baxter (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
"Barrens Dancing", Peter S. Beagle (Wizards)
"The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French", Peter S. Beagle (Eclipse One)
"Orm the Beautiful", Elizabeth Bear (Clarkesworld 1/07)
"Tideline", Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's 4-5/07)
"Pirates of the Somali Coast", Terry Bisson (Subterranean 10/07)
"The Coat of Stars", Holly Black (So Fey)
"Paper Cuts Scissors", Holly Black (Realms of Fantasy 10/07)
"Among Strangers", Pat Cadigan (disLOCATIONS)
"Café Culture", Jack Dann (Asimov's 1/07)
"Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse", Andy Duncan (Eclipse One)
"The Dreaming Wind", Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road)
"The Drowned Life", Jeffrey Ford (Eclipse One)
"The Manticore Spell", Jeffrey Ford (Wizards)
"Under the Bottom of the Lake", Jeffrey Ford (Subterranean 10/07)
"Always", Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's 4-5/07)
"Electric Rains", Kathleen Ann Goonan (Eclipse One)
"Catherine and the Satyr", Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 10/07)
"Singing of Mount Abora", Theodora Goss (Logorrhea)
"Dead Horse Point", Daryl Gregory (Asimov's 8/07)
"Unpossible", Daryl Gregory (F&SF 10-11/07)
"Soul Case", Nalo Hopkinson (Foundation Summer '07)
"Saving Tiamat", Gwyneth Jones (The New Space Opera)
"The Tomb Wife", Gwyneth Jones (F&SF 8/07)
"Graduation Afternoon", Stephen King (Postscripts Spring '07)
"Save Me Plz", David Barr Kirtley (Realms of Fantasy 10/07)
"Mrs. Zeno's Paradox", Ellen Klages (Eclipse One)
"Art of War", Nancy Kress (The New Space Opera)
"By Fools Like Me", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 9/07)
"C-Rock City", Jay Lake & Greg Van Eekhout (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction)
"Jesus Christ, Reanimator", Ken MacLeod (Fast Forward 1)
"Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?", Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera)
"Osama Phone Home", David Marusek (MIT Technology Review 3-4/07)
"Sanjeev and Robotwallah", Ian McDonald (Fast Forward 1)
"Verthandi's Ring", Ian McDonald (The New Space Opera)
"The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large", Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse One)
"Fragrant Goddess", Paul Park (F&SF 10-11/07)
"Three Days of Rain", Holly Phillips (Asimov's 6/07)
"Artifice and Intelligence", Tim Pratt (Strange Horizons 8/6/07)
"Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys", Robert Reed (F&SF 3/07)
"Holiday", M. Rickert (Subterranean 10/07)
"Memoir of a Deer Woman", M. Rickert (F&SF 3/07)
"Molly and the Red Hat", Benjamin Rosenbaum (Interzone 10/07)
"Stray", Benjamin Rosenbaum & David Ackert (F&SF 12/07)
"Objective Impermeability in a Closed System", William Shunn (An Alternate History of the 21st Century)
"Strangers on a Bus", Jack Skillingstead (Asimov's 12/07)
"A Trade in Serpents", Alan Smale (Realms of Fantasy 8/07)
"Stone and the Librarian", William Browning Spencer (F&SF 2/07)
"The Lustration", Bruce Sterling (Eclipse One)
"A Plain Tale from Our Hills", Bruce Sterling (Subterranean Spring '07)
"A Small Room in Koboldtown", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 4-5/07)
"The Third Bear", Jeff VanderMeer (Clarkesworld 4/07)
"The Surgeon's Tale", Jeff VanderMeer & Cat Rambo (Subterranean Winter '07)
"The Great White Bed", Don Webb (F&SF 5/07)
"Abigail and Chang", Harvey Welles & Philip Raines (Challenging Destiny 8/07)