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Charles Coleman Finlay

Author of The Patriot Witch

81+ Works 1,103 Members 51 Reviews 3 Favorited

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Series

Works by Charles Coleman Finlay

The Patriot Witch (2009) 205 copies, 11 reviews
The Prodigal Troll (2005) 98 copies, 8 reviews
Spell for the Revolution (2009) 84 copies
Demon Redcoat (2009) 65 copies, 1 review
Wild Things (2005) 33 copies
Pervert 5 copies, 1 review
Lucy, in Her Splendor (2003) 3 copies
Passing Through 2 copies
The Rapeworm 2 copies
The Seal Hunter 2 copies, 1 review
Footnotes 1 copy

Associated Works

Brave New Worlds (2011) — Contributor — 520 copies, 18 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003) — Contributor — 501 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009) — Contributor — 399 copies, 2 reviews
By Blood We Live (2009) — Contributor — 307 copies, 7 reviews
Year's Best SF 10 (2005) — Contributor — 237 copies, 6 reviews
The Way of the Wizard (2010) — Contributor — 213 copies, 6 reviews
Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond (2013) — Contributor — 157 copies, 11 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 (2004) — Contributor — 132 copies, 1 review
Year's Best Fantasy 4 (2004) — Contributor — 113 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2016 Edition (2016) — Contributor — 59 copies, 4 reviews
War and Space: Recent Combat (2012) — Author — 53 copies, 2 reviews
The Book of More Flesh (2005) — Contributor — 41 copies
Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms (2022) — Contributor — 37 copies, 1 review
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition (2008) — Contributor — 34 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 2008, Vol. 115, No. 2 (2008) — Contributor — 19 copies, 1 review
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 33 • February 2013 (2013) — Contributor — 14 copies, 3 reviews
The Best of Strange Horizons: Year One : September 2000-August 2001 (2003) — Contributor — 11 copies, 1 review
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 60 • May 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 11 copies, 1 review
The Reinvented Detective (2023) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Best of Talebones (2010) — Contributor — 8 copies
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #4 — Contributor — 4 copies
Noctum Aeternus 1 — Contributor — 3 copies
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #3 — Contributor — 2 copies
Daily Science Fiction: March 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 1 copy, 1 review
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 10 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Favorite Stories:
The Man I Loved by James Patrick Kelly: This was SO GOOD, this was one of those stories that improves your day, makes you smile and has makes me want more stories from the Happy Valley Tavern.
The Last Legend by Matthew Hughes: I had no clue until the very end where this story was going
Of the 12 stories only 2 were duds (in my opinion)
...Also some of the cartoons were hilarious!
 
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davisfamily | 2 other reviews | Dec 11, 2022 |
Not a review. Includes two (!!!) of my poems, "Space Isn't Like in the Vids" and "Least Weird Thing of All."
 
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ladycato | Dec 31, 2021 |
This is definitely one of the better issues of the magazine. Not a single dud of a story and the weakest one in here is co-authored by Ted Chiang! The included fiction is:

7 • More Heat Than Light • novelette by Charlotte Ashley
28 • Last of the Sharkspeakers • novelette by Brian Trent
62 • The Nostalgia Calculator • short story by Rich Larson
88 • Coyote Song • novella by Pat MacEwen
134 • The Great Silence • (2015) • short story by Allora and Calzadilla and Ted Chiang
139 • Caribou: Documentary Fragments • short story by Joseph Tomaras
152 • Steamboat Gothic • novelette by Albert E. Cowdrey
173 • Ash • short story by Susan Palwick
190 • The Secret Mirror of Moriyama House • short story by Yukimi Ogawa
208 • The Long Fall Up • novelette by William Ledbetter
231 • The Stone War • novelette by Ted Kosmatka

There seems to be a little something of everything in this issue. We start off with an alternative history story with a sort of french revolution in Canada leading to a soldier story. Honor prevails. It was one of the weaker stories I thought, but OK. We then have a story set on an asteroid, Ceres, where future humans have a very strange society. I liked this one. We also have a CSI type story with heavy supernatural elements and I liked that one too. Fantasy, supernatural and some horror is the overriding element of most stories.

I think my favorite story here was 'The Long Fall Up' by William Ledbetter.
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RBeffa | Jul 17, 2020 |
Favorite: Playscape by Diana Peterfreund
 
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tldegray | Aug 6, 2019 |

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Statistics

Works
81
Also by
29
Members
1,103
Popularity
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Rating
½ 3.7
Reviews
51
ISBNs
13
Languages
2
Favorited
3

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