“Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory”

Locus Recommended Reading List, 2010

Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

“I was impressed last year by Paul M. Berger’s Interzone piece ‘Home Again’.  Now he contributes a brilliant story to Fantasy, one of the stories of the year so far, ‘Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory’.”

– Rich Horton, Locus

“Small Burdens”

Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

“A very different take on changelings.  RECOMMENDED.”

– Lois Tilton, Locus Online Reviews

“Home Again”

Locus Recommended Reading List, 2009

“One of those subtle, little gems that stay with you a long time… This one was only a page and a half and you have to read it carefully and, then, read it again. It will reward you.”
– Sam Tomaino, SF Revu

“Nice work, very short…Berger very sharply sets up a stinger at the close.”
– Rich Horton, Locus

“It’s a neat concept, and a neat character study, and both come together (as they need to) in a stinging closing cadence.”
– Niall Harrison, Torque Control (in Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association)

“Beneath a warm and loving family scene, we glimpse something disturbing in this effective short-short.”
– Lois Tilton, The Internet Review of Science Fiction

“A quick, smart story that asks the reader to read between the lines, and is just too nice to spoil by giving any more details.”
–Bill Ward, Tangent Online

“Winter in Aso”

“The only exuberant story here, the only story told with any élan, is “Winter in Aso” by Paul M. Berger, set in contemporary Japan and giving a modern twist to Japanese folk traditions of women able to transform themselves into animals.”
– Paul Kincaid, Strange Horizons

Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

“The Muse of Empires Lost”

“A fine and perverse fable of power and purblindness.”
– Nick Gevers, Locus

“It’s all very nicely, and spookily, done.”
– Rich Horton, Locus

“Interesting world-building, ambiguous characters, and a twist at the end make this one of the anthology’s stronger pieces.”
– Victoria Strauss, SF Site

“The science fiction setting does nothing to detract or distract from the fantastical atmosphere or the depth of emotions displayed as Jemmi and Yee struggle to use each other’s powers for their own gain.”
– Rose Fox, Strange Horizons

“Voice of the Hurricane”

“This opening story is deliciously strange.”
– Sherwood Smith, SF Site

“This is a brilliant story, full of evocative nautical imagery. So cleverly conceived, it is easy for the reader to suspend their disbelief despite this story’s impossible setting…Berger has provided some excellent narration and authentic characters, and this was the perfect choice to open this anthology.”
– Jason Fischer, Tangent

Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Second Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois