Tag: Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Inspiration

Inspiration

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1990)

Magazine cover: Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1990; review of “Inspiration” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

A short Christmas ghost story about a romance novelist and her spirit lover, whom she cannot touch because she was born after he died. The tragic tones give way to ick with the arrival of a rapist/stalker. Somewhat muddled in the denouement.

The Retrieval Artist

The Retrieval Artist

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Analog, June 2000)

Magazine cover: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2000

A significant novella that establishes Rusch’s concept of human corporations sponsoring disappearances so as to circumvent the strange requirements of alien justice. Though paving the way for a successful series of books, this first story indulges in an awful lot of telling.

 

 

Boneyards

Boneyards

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Pyr, 2012)

Rusch_Boneyards

Having created the ‘Diving Universe’, Rusch in this third book seems in no great hurry to advance it. Of diving—the archaeological exploration of abandoned spaceships—there is little, and of the titular boneyards still less. Even so, the story froths along.

 

 

Recovery Man

Recovery Man

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Penguin, 2007)

Rusch_Recovery Man

While surprisingly little happens in this Retrieval Artist novel, Rusch is as readable as ever and the narrative to and fro spawns an immersive understanding of her near-Earth SF future – a potpourri of corporate frontier settlement, digital advancement and edgy alien multiculturalism.