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The Borderlands -- Fantasy &
Science Fiction, December 1995
[The first story I ever sold. Received an Honorable Mention in the Ninth
Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling]
- "...swings between nicely crafted poetic movements and more
mundane sections of summary exposition, which are at times disaffectingly
melodramatic. There is certainly some genius in it." -- Eliot Fintushel,
Tangent (Issue 13, Winter 1995)
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The Raftman -- Distant Journeys, Number 2
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A Jingling of the Bells -- Haunts, Issue 31 (Spring/Summer 1996)
- "...takes a bit of reading to figure out, but once you grasp the
main conceit, the story flows rather well...There are some graphic elements
here, appropriate to the setting and the time frame. These serve the story,
adding to the pathos and ultimate despair that drives the main character."
-- Lillian Csernica, Tangent (Issue 17, Winter 1996)
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Dealing with Dragons -- Adventures of Sword & Sorcery, Issue
#1 (Winter, 1996)
[Tied for Favorite Story in the premiere issue in a vote by the magazine's
readers.]
- "Brown plays [the two main characters] against each other to
excellent effect, to the extent that he successfully pulls off a twist ending
that could easily have fallen flat." -- John C. Bunnell, Tangent (Issue 14,
Spring 1996)
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Astronaut Memories (poem) -- Pirate Writings, Vol. 4, No. 2
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A Patch of Blue -- Strange Fiction,Vol. 1, Issue 1
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Fast Track Jones -- Fortress, Issue 2.
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Snowface -- E-Scape,
October 1996 (No. 6)
- "Carroll Brown's 'Snowface,' on the other hand, is a chilling
(sorry) ride...A little heavy on snow metaphors at the outset, but some great
imagery at the close." -- John Everson, Tangent (Issue 18, Spring 1997)
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King of Seventh Avenue -- Fantasy &
Science Fiction, January 1997
[Received an Honorable Mention in Fifteenth Annual Year's Best Science
Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois]
- "The story addresses both the Arthurian legend, and the larger
issue of how people believe what they need to believe. The writing is
impassioned, though given to cliches at time..." -- Mark R.Kelly, Locus
(Vol. 38 No. 2, February 1997)
- "...the narrator, who has seen first hand the horrors of a new
civil war in Great Britain -- England needs Arthur! -- grounds the story in a
gutty realism. While not as "stunning" as the Queen would have us
believe, "The King of Seventh Avenue" nonetheless has heart, and a
lyrical ending perhaps better than what came before it." -- Jeff
VanderMeer, Tangent (Iusse 18, Spring 1997)
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Silent Praises -- Adventures of Sword and Sorcery, Issue #4
- "The action is poorly paced, and the imagery reaches for
effect...The dialogue sounds less like mages and master thieves and more like
two mooks from the West End. From the trip through the sewers to the monster at
the end, this story read like a novelette-ization of a D&D adventure: thin,
uninteresting, and without theme." -- Kurt R. A. Giambastiani, Tangent
(Issue 18, Spring 1997)
[This is the only review here that I think is truly off the mark -- some of the
first comments may be true, that is a subjective call, but as for the last...I
think the reviewer missed the point. Plus, I wanted the characters to sound that
way -- I despise pseudo-archaic English as some kind of hallmark of fantasy
fiction. Nonetheless, humility is a good teacher, and one can always use a
reminder that you're not going to please everybody.]
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Going With Fergus -- Aboriginal
Science Fiction, Winter 1998 (Issue 59/60)
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