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Austin Beeman

Science Fiction Short Story Reviews by Austin Beeman

 

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The Very Best of Barry N Malzberg. 2013
Reviewing the 2025 Hugo Award Finalists: Best Novelettes
Reviewing the 2025 Hugo Award Finalists: Best Short Story
Clarkesworld 2024 Readers' Award Finalists: Novellas | Novelettes | Short Stories
The John Varley Reader: Thirty Years of Short Fiction. 2004
Deathbird Stories. by Harlan Ellison. 1975
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. edited by Bruce Sterling. 1986
Nebula Awards 22: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy. edited by George Zebrowski. 1986
The Best of Michael Swanwick. 2008
The Last Dangerous Visions. edited by Harlan Ellison. With J. Michael Straczynski. 2024
Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact. November 1978
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024. edited by Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams
New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention. edited by Chris Campbell. 2024
Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions. by Nalo Hopkinson. 2024
Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection. by Isaac Asimov. 1995
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge. 2001
The Wolfe at the Door. by Gene Wolfe. 2023
Kurdistan + 100: Stories from a Future Republic. edited by Orsola Casagrande and Mustafa Gündoğdu. 2023
The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection. edited by Gardner Dozois. 1984
Dangerous Visions. edited by Harlan Ellison. 1967
Reviewing the 2024 Hugo Award Finalists: Best Novella
Reviewing the 2024 Hugo Award Finalists: Best Short Story
Reviewing the 2024 Hugo Award Finalists: Best Novelettes
New Adventures in Space Opera. edited by Jonathan Strahan. 2024
Calvaria Fell: Stories. by Cat Sparks and Kaaron Warren. 2024
Reviewing the 38th Annual Readers' Award Finalists from Asimov's Science Fiction. 2024. Novellas, Novelettes, and Short Stories.
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition. 2023
Fast Forward Japan: Stories from the Founder of Japanese Science Fiction. by Juza Unno. 2021.
The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century. edited by Martin H Greenberg. 1998
The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth. edited by Allan Kaster. 2023
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