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Rich Horton says some nice things about my work in the context of his year-end review of Realms of Fantasy. He mentions "Romanticore" in passing -- I hope he covers it in a bit more depth in a review at some point. Rich is one of my favorite short fiction reviewers. He's insightful, articulate, and enthusiastic -- and most importantly, his taste is similar to my own!

Here's the relevant bit, if you don't want to follow the link:
Of the new novelettes, I was particularly taken with Tim Pratt's "Fable from a Cage" (February), a nasty story about a thief captured by a witch who needs him to help her steal something of great value to her. Pratt twistily and cynically shows serial betrayals. Pratt had a great year at RoF, with two more strong novelettes, "Romanticore" (December) and "Captain Fantasy and the Secret Masters" (April), as well as a good short story, "Down With the Lizards and the Bees" (August). Pratt also deserves praise, in my skewed view, for apparently pushing the magazine to publish longer stories: last year's "The Witch's Bicycle" was at that time the longest RoF story I'd ever seen, and he had three stories in the 10,000 word range this year.

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Our own David Moles has a story, The Memory of Water, at Strange Horizons. I read it mere moments after midnight on Sunday night/Monday morning, and it was a good way to start the week, a story full of crackpot Nazi pseudo-science and haunting desert-scapes. It reminded me in part of Tim Powers's marvelous Declare, and in part of Charles Stross's A Colder War (though they're both Cold War stories, not WWII stories). The story shares with those works a skillful blending of the military/historical and the supernatural, something I admire, but suspect I would have trouble pulling off in my own fiction. David is one of the smartest people I know, and it shows in his fiction. Plus, he's going to edit an anthology of zeppelin-related pulp fiction!

Now if only he'd send me something for Flytrap...


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