Reviews of "Ugly Duckling' (Old Mars) and "Stones and Glass" (F&SF)
At Tor.com, Robert H. Bedford has reviewed Old Mars, the George R.R. Martin/Gardner Dozois-edited retro-antho of stories set in the Mars sf authors used to imagine before robot probes and explorers revealed the hard, cold facts. Of my story, he says:
“The Ugly Duckling” by Matthew Hughes finds an archaeologist exploring the ruins of the Martian past in a place from which few have returned. Hughes plays with identity, past, and personality in this tale of obsession driving a man to discover what might be best left unexplored. Hughes conjured up a deep past for Mars in this story, and in some ways, a civilization that isn’t too dissimilar to our own.
Actually, Ray Bradbury did the conjuring. I borrowed the background from The Martian Chronicles.
And over at Tangent Online, Collen Chen reviews "Stones and Glass," my story in the November/December issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, now just out. She says the story is "engaging and tension-filled, with a solid fantasy world behind three-dimensional characters."
“The Ugly Duckling” by Matthew Hughes finds an archaeologist exploring the ruins of the Martian past in a place from which few have returned. Hughes plays with identity, past, and personality in this tale of obsession driving a man to discover what might be best left unexplored. Hughes conjured up a deep past for Mars in this story, and in some ways, a civilization that isn’t too dissimilar to our own.
Actually, Ray Bradbury did the conjuring. I borrowed the background from The Martian Chronicles.
And over at Tangent Online, Collen Chen reviews "Stones and Glass," my story in the November/December issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, now just out. She says the story is "engaging and tension-filled, with a solid fantasy world behind three-dimensional characters."
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