Great Fiction Award from SFReader.com
Filed under My Writing • Reviews • 23-02-2006 •
Daniel E. Blackston of sfreader.com has awarded my short story SUNSETS AND HAMBURGERS with his Firebrand Fiction Reviews Award for Great Fiction.
Firebrand Fiction Reviews is a regular column that reviews fiction from the web and beyond. Their Great Fiction award has previously been conferred upon the likes of Ellen Datlow, Darrell Schweitzer, Tanith Lee, Jeffrey Ford, and many other notable SF writers and editors.
He also gave the story a great review on sfreader.com.
He wrote: “Sunsets and Hamburgers, by Gareth Lyn Powell is an excellent far-future apocalypse with an immediately grabbing opening and a grandly successful denouement. Told episodically in numbered diary entries, the story combines a hatful of familiar SF-nal conceits such as: suspended animation, galactic “drift,” the end of the universe, the extinction of the human race, genetic engineering, forced breeding. That all of this and more is accomplished in a short-short – without sacrificing character depth or world-building – is just amazing. Powell’s narrative voice is precise, giving needed details, sparing superfluous digressions, lengthy exposition, or wooden dialogue. In fact, “Sunsets and Hamburgers” moves so quickly and so effectively toward its profound and unforgettable climax that it is easy to forget that this little gem of a science-fiction story has more concepts invested in it than many door-stopper sci-fi novels. Simply a magnificent short-short, one which I wholeheartedly give my highest recommendation… This month’s Great Fiction Brand Award goes to Gareth Lyn Powell for Sunsets and Hamburgers. Congratulations Gareth!”
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