I am not a pod(cast)person, but this anthology might change that for me! Or at least get me out of my very narrow lane of go-to things to listen to while wrapping Christmas presents or other visual-heavy artsy-crafty things. I tend to enjoy more radio-drama-type fare like Limetown or, even older than that, Sherlock Holmes …
Category: Short Stories
Dec 07 2020
Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology edited by Mur Lafferty & S. B. Divya
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Science Fiction, Short Stories
December 7, 2020
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Dec 02 2020
Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-nan
- By Doreen Sheridan in Asia, Doreen, Literature, Short Stories
December 2, 2020
Happy December, everyone! Let’s start the month with a chilling read! I have a bad habit of not remembering why I picked up certain volumes, not helped by the often considerable lag time between me deciding I want to read a book and me actually getting the opportunity to read it. So I vaguely recall …
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Nov 05 2020
Invisible Planets edited and translated by Ken Liu
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Fabulous Ones, Science Fiction, Short Stories
November 5, 2020
With his smashingly successful translation of Liu Cixin’s The Three–Body Problem, Ken Liu introduced modern Chinese science fiction to a large English-speaking audience. The reception of the rest of Three-Body‘s trilogy, one translated by Joel Martinsen and the other by Ken Liu, showed that it was not a one-book phenomenon, and that English-speaking science fiction …
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Oct 02 2020
The Night Archer and Other Stories by Michael Oren
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Short Stories
October 2, 2020
Reading Michael Oren’s debut collection of short stories reminded me very much of being a teenager again and reading two of Roald Dahl’s short story collections for adults, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch, once I’d exhausted his works for younger readers. Densely packed with entertainment value, each book was a wild ride that I wouldn’t …
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Sep 28 2020
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Horror, Short Stories
September 28, 2020
The afterword of T Kingfisher’s terrific The Hollow Places (which I’ll shortly be reviewing over at CriminalElement.com) mentions that it’s based on the classic horror short story The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, which has been cited by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most terrifying stories ever written. Being a voraciously curious reader, …
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Sep 09 2020
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020 edited by Jonathan Strahan
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Science Fiction, Short Stories
September 9, 2020
With Gardner Dozois’ passing, science fiction lost not only a brilliant writer but also one of the most prominent editors in the genre. Since 1984, he’d presided over the premiere collection of sci-fi’s shorter works via his Year’s Best collections, which numbered thirty-five at the time of his demise. Two years on, Jonathan Strahan and …
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Jun 21 2020
Hugo Awards 2020: Short Story Nominees
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories
June 21, 2020
Because I don’t have a subscription to the OED, I will take Merriam-Webster at their word that the first appearance of “listicle” was in 2007, several eternities ago in internet terms — back when you still had to have a .edu address to get a Facebook account (back when youngish people still thought Facebook was …
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Jun 11 2020
Hugo Awards 2020: Novelette Nominees
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Fantasy, General, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories
June 11, 2020
For whatever reason, I felt that this slate wasn’t as strong as in the Short Story category, probably because I spent less time being impressed by the entries, bar the one I’m going to vote for. I mean, there weren’t any bad stories here, but I’d expect better from what’s essentially a Year’s Best list. …
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Jun 08 2020
Hugo Awards 2020: Short Story Nominees
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories
June 8, 2020
It’s that time of year again! Doug persuaded me to get a voting membership to the Hugos this year, and I’m taking my duties quite seriously, even if there’s only about a month and a half in which to go over all the materials nominated. Of course, I started with the short stories because they’re …
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May 21 2020
Giants at the End of the World edited by Johanna Sinisalo and Toni Jerrman
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Fantasy, Short Stories, Urban Fantasy
May 21, 2020
Giants at the End of the World is a nifty artifact, its subtitle “A Showcase of Finnish Weird” telling part of the story, and the headline of the back jacket text “Worldcon 75 proudly presents” telling the rest. The slender and compact collection of 11 stories was a present to attending members of the 2017 …
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