On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

“Family on the Vineyard?” It might have been a cheerful tone. It might have been a leading one. But it was the sort of question anybody might ask. As so often happens when one has an unconventiona...

Hm. I must admit to never having read anything of this author's before. I was voluntold to read this short story of hers and so I did.What awaited me as a slightly Lovecraftian tale of a female physic...

And so here we were, on a strange planet under an alien sun, surrounded by twisted, non-Euclidean geometry; pistols at alien dawn with inside-out monstrosities which (presuming our hypothesis was reli...

On a whim, an anonymous female physicist in New England gets her DNA run, with surprising results. She ends up on Martha's Vineyard in winter, standing on what turns out to be a portal to another worl...

No spoilers, but this fun little Elizabeth Bear story has tones of Lovecraft and R. Chambers while reading like a straight SF novel of scientific and personal discovery.Did I think it was brilliant? N...

A curious and unexpected Lovecraftian inspired journey into the unknown parts of an orphaned scientist's genetic legacy. Lighthearted and touching, rather than chilling, Bear plays on some familiar tr...

I love stories that take fantastical things seriously, and I love how this story does that. (I also loved the whip-sharp cracks at being a woman in academia, but that's probably me.) I also liked the ...

Smart, fun, concise, lucidly told. Thank you for restoring my faith in modern SF and giving me the Sense of Wonder I look for. Not too much on the characterization, though, or, tbh, the What If. Still...

Really liked this Lovecraftian shortie by Elizabeth Bear. Raises all sorts of questions that I hope get answered in a future work! 5 stars....

What a nice little Lovecraftian-themed story. It's not horror, mind you, or another commentary on H. P. Lovecraft's prejudices, just a nice story of learning you are in a world that just happens to ha...