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44 reviews
Charles Stross

Golden Gryphon Press, 2004

Far out, man!
What a great book! Charles Stross' "Atrocity Archives/Concrete Jungle is a mixtue of Lovecraft, Len Deighton as well as Monty Python and Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" all in one. This is a book that a reader will have to read multiple times and will glean something new from the book in every reading. Bob Howard is an IT (Info Technology)support person for the Laundry, a British Department under ...

The Jennifer Morgue

22 reviews
Charles Stross

Golden Gryphon Press, 2006

SciFi would be on top, if all novels were like this...
This novel actually creeped me out a few times and had me rolling on the floor with laughter most of the time. SciFi would be the topseller in genre fiction, if more novels were like this one. Stross skewers James Bond, flips the Lovecraft style horror novels on their ear, infuses some of the best IT and hacker details that I've read in a novel, incorporates a pretty good love story paired with a ...

Budayeen Nights

5 reviews
George Alec Effinger

Golden Gryphon Press, 2008

Best SF Collection of 2003!
What isn't obvious about the Publishers Weekly review of BUDAYEEN NIGHTS posted above is that this was a *starred* review! Not only is it rare for a sf/fantasy collection even to be reviewed in PW, but to receive a starred review is . . . well, kudos to Golden Gryphon for publishing this long-awaited collection from George Alec Effinger. In fact, anything from GAE is long-awaited! According to ...

Mad Dog Summer: And Other Stories

3 reviews
Joe R. Lansdale

Golden Gryphon Press, 2006

Yet another great place to start....
Just received this book yesterday and sorting my way through some familiar and the off the wall gems. When you pick up Joe R. Lansdale short stories you won't find the same old stories, you'll find some good life lessons and hard luck, some shock and laughs and down home tales, usually from a very twisted perspective at times. Always top notch stories. I especially enjoyed joe's expanded ...

Wreck of the Godspeed: And Other Stories
James Patrick Kelly

Golden Gryphon Press, 2008

Providing new insights into the human psyche, this remarkable collection gathers 13 cutting-edge tales of science fiction that reveal both the dark and light side of progress. In the Nebula award-winner, "Burn," an idyllic planet wrestles with ecological responsibility and terrorism, while the problems and temptations of a happy virtual reality are examined in "The Dark Side of Town." Colorful pilgrims travel to new worlds until their ...

Nano Comes to Clifford Falls: And Other Stories
Nancy Kress

Golden Gryphon Press, 2008

Blending a focus on cutting-edge technology with deep emotional impacts, this enticing collection draws its stories from various Year's Best and Reader's Choice lists. The pathos of the human condition is explored in such stories as "My Mother, Dancing," in which seedlings are planted and those responsible must decide if they will play God with them, or let natural selection progress; or in "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls," where nanotechnology ...

Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers

13 reviews
Kage Baker

Golden Gryphon Press, 2004

Snapshots from the Kage Bakers excellent world of Cyborgs
Kage Baker has created a fascinating world where cyborgs, human beings who have been enhanced, augmented and made immortal live through the ages doing the bidding of the Dr Zeus Corporation in the 24th century. They collect artifact, rare plants, and anything else that has monetary value in the dreary world of the future. This collection of short storys, some previously published, shows ...

The Empire of Ice Cream

6 reviews
Jeffrey Ford

Golden Gryphon Press, 2006

Excellent collection of lovely varied fantasy tales
Jeffrey Ford has made quite an impression in the last few years, with several fine novels including the World Fantasy Award winning The Physiognomy, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, and The Girl in the Glass. But my favorite Ford works have been short fiction -- and it so happens that my personal favorites appear in this new collection, his second. The title story, indeed, is one of my ...

High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale

11 reviews
Joe R. Lansdale

Golden Gryphon Press, 2003

Lansdale's Best-Of Collection
So, "High Cotton" reprints several of Lansdale's personally selected best stories. These stories, all of them except for one are also featured in his original collections "By Bizarre Hands", "Bestsellers Guaranteed", and "Writer of the Purple Rage", and are arguably the best of the stories featured in the original (and out of print) books. Lansdale's follow-up, "Bumper Crop" collects many ...

Louisiana Breakdown

2 reviews
Lucius Shepard

Golden Gryphon Press, 2003

Shepard at his very best
Two centuries ago, the townspeople of Grail, Louisiana made a deal with the entity they call the Good Gray Man. The Good Gray Man promised good fortune to the town as long as it provided him with a Midsummer Queen he found acceptable. Accordingly, every twenty years, the town elects a 10-year-old girl to be their Midsummer Queen, the person who draws all of the town's bad luck to her for the next ...

Nothing Human

5 reviews
Nancy Kress

Golden Gryphon Press, 2003

I thought this book was great!
I thought this book did everything a good sci-fi book did -- discuss issues and ideas that are important today. Maybe I'm just simple minded, but I thought this book was a lot better then the overall "acceptable" reviews that I've read here. I also recommend another book (trilogy, actually) that deals with very similar issues in a very similar fashion by Octavia E Butler, the Xenogenesis ...

Black Pockets: And Other Dark Thoughts

3 reviews
George Zebrowski

Golden Gryphon Press, 2006

An impressively entertaining collection of this accomplished author's memorable short stories of horror
Black Pockets And Other Dark Thoughts by George Zebrowski is an impressively entertaining collection of this accomplished author's memorable short stories of horror gathered together under one cover, and includes the novella "Black Pockets" which was written especially for this anthology of dark fantasy. Combining metaphorical lore and a born storyteller's skills, Black Pockets contributes works ...

Map of Dreams

1 review
M. Rickert

Golden Gryphon Press, 2006

Stories you will not forget easily
M. Rickert's first collection, Map of Dreams, is beautiful, magical, real, incantatory, evocative, lush, poetic, full of narrative momentum and characters and situations that you will not easily forget. There is a generous amount of heart and sympathy in these stories, and a wealth of wisdom. Don't read this book at your own risk.

Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations

4 reviews
Howard Waldrop

Golden Gryphon Press, 2003

Idea (...) from the galactic fringe
The stories in this collection are great, of course. Some are recently published, some have been sprung from the prison of time, and one, the long-rumored collaboration between Howard Waldrop and Bruce Sterling, has never been published previously. The title story is the one that changed the ground rules for writing alternate history. These are stories of ideas -- of complete profligacy with ...

Impact Parameter: And Other Quantum Realities

5 reviews
Geoffrey A. Landis

Golden Gryphon Press, 2001

Excellent hard science-fiction short stories
I was impressed by the author's first novel, MARS CROSSING, so I was very eager to read his collection of short stories, and I found that I was not disappointed. Many of these stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies, and have won awards. Landis is clearly a "hard" science-fiction writer, in that the science element in his stories is interesting and accurate, but he does not neglect ...

Think Like a Dinosaur: And Other Stories

6 reviews
James Patrick Kelly

Golden Gryphon Press, 2003

A brilliant collection.
James Patrick Kelly is among the best there is in science fiction. There are some real classics contained in Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, from the now-famous title story, "Think Like a Dinosaur" (which won a well-deserved Hugo Award) to his brilliant, fast-paced novella, "Mr. Boy," which had a tremendous impact on me when I first read it, and still does. There's "Rat," one of my ...

A Thousand Deaths

3 reviews
George Alec Effinger

Golden Gryphon Press, 2007

Publishers Weekly review
Since Amazon has neglected to post the Publishers Weekly review for Effinger's A THOUSAND DEATHS, I'll take the liberty. Publishers Weekly for May 7, 2007: A heartfelt homage to the late (and largely underappreciated) SF author Effinger (1947-2002), this intimate collection of stories revolving around his literary alter ego, hapless genre writer and editor Sandor Courane, offers a poignant ...

Bumper Crop

11 reviews
Joe R. Lansdale

Golden Gryphon Press, 2005

Nice Companion Piece to High Cotton
While I haven't read "High Cotton" yet, I have read most of the stories in it. As had I read most of the stories in this anthology. "Bestsellers Guaranteed" and "By Bizarre Hands" collected the majority of Lansdale's fiction back in the day, and it is from these two books where the majority of these two books come. I think he focuses on novels now, and I'm not sure how much short fiction he ...

The Guild of Xenolinguists

3 reviews
Sheila Finch

Golden Gryphon Press, 2007

A blend of strong plot and technological insight.
In most science fiction novels the challenges and impossibilities of inter-species communication is overcome by the presence of a 'universal translator' - or just not mentioned. So, its intriguing to see a novel based around communication challenges - and presents a story surrounding the Guild of Xenolinguists, which helps sentient species overcome cross-communication challenges. A Guildmember is ...

Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of Hpl in Popular Culture

4 reviews

Golden Gryphon Press, 1998

Great production values from Golden Gryphon
While I was at a meeting in St. Louis I came across thic collection by Golden Gryphon Press. Publication date was 1998. It was expensive but $17.93 is very reasonable for high quality hardcover. First, the production values are high quality with a nice hardcover binding. The dustjacket has a wonderful painting by Nicholas Jainschigg, that depicts a glowing eye stranger walking away as some ...

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