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| The Gardens of Tantalus The Gateway of Eternity The Gift of the Magi Given by the Sun Goldilocks 2: This Time It's Personal! Going to the Dogs The Growth of the House of Usher |
| The Gardens of Tantalus [9] | ||||
| Classical Whodunnits, Past Times 1996. | ||||
| The Gateway of Eternity [36] | ||||
| Interzone 139/140 (January/February 1999) | ||||
| The Gift of the Magi [3] (as Francis Amery) | ||||
| Interzone 122 (August 1997) | ||||
| Given by the Sun [1] (as S. May Amarinth) | ||||
| Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Barnes & Noble 1998 | ||||
| ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg | ||||
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"Given by the Sun" was the ruler who wasted on himself the last of an elixir that prevented death and thought of himself and his kingdom as invincible. After their vanquishing by Rome, the people of the kingdom revolted, but the king could not kill himself. Review by Trent Walters |
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| Going to the Dogs [v] | ||||
| The Drabble Project, Beccon Publications 1988 | ||||
| ed. Rob Meades & David B. Wake | ||||
| Goldilocks 2: This Time It's Personal! [1] | ||||
| The Seventh Seal 5 | ||||
| The Growth of the House of Usher [9] | ||||
| Interzone 024 (Summer 1988) | ||||
| Ice River 4 (June 1989) | ||||
| Best New SF 3, Robinson 1989 | ||||
| ed. Gardner Dozois | ||||
| Interzone: The Fourth Anthology, Simon & Schuster (UK) 1989 | ||||
| ed. John Clute, David Pringle & Simon Ounsley | ||||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection, St. Martin's 1989 | ||||
| ed. Gardner Dozois | ||||
| Interzone: The Fourth Anthology, NEL 1990 | ||||
| ed. John Clute, David Pringle & Simon Ounsley | ||||
| Sexual Chemistry, Simon & Schuster (UK) 1991 | ||||
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| [Hayakawa] SF Magazine October 1993 | ||||
| Rowland Usher is in the final stages of a debilitating and
fatal hereditary disease. He has decided to build a monument to himself
and his work, so we find ourselves in a motorised dinghy in the far
flung Orinoco delta.
Most of the story is taken up describing the house and the rather unusual way it was made: using bacteria to bind together Orinocean silt, before being hollowed out with genetically engineered insect larvae. However, Rowland has had plenty of time to do other things, including a little tinkering around with larval genes. The title isn't the only reference to Poe in this tale, which has several echoes from The Fall of the House of Usher, including the narrative style. This story shares background material with the much later Emortality series and the non - fiction book The Third Millennium, written with David Langford. |
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