So for real, Binti is a terrific character and the setting is amazing and the way Nnedi Okorafor builds a whole universe and sci-fi system is breathtakingly good considering the novella doesn’t even break a hundred pages but Jesus fuck, I was not okay with how the Meduse were deferred to. They did something to …
Category: Short Stories
Nov 09 2017
Binti (Binti #1) by Nnedi Okorafor
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Science Fiction, Short Stories
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November 9, 2017
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Nov 03 2017
Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Mystery, Short Stories
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November 3, 2017
I didn’t even know this existed till I stumbled across a free Kindle copy. It’s really a novella (about 80 pages) of what happens when Tom and Huck get entangled in a murder mystery, based on an actual case that Mark Twain freely admits to using in the opening paragraphs. It’s an entertaining story set …
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May 20 2017
“The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Fabulous Ones, Fantasy, Mythology, Short Stories
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May 20, 2017
“The Tomato Thief” by Urusla Vernon will have my first-place vote for this year’s Hugo award in the category of best novelette. It is a sideways return to the world of “Jackalope Wives,” which won the Nebula in 2014 for best short story, and is the only other story of hers that I have read. …
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May 07 2017
“The City Born Great” by N.K. Jemisin
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Short Stories, Urban Fantasy
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May 7, 2017
“The City Born Great” by N.K. Jemisin should win this year’s Hugo for short story. The conceit of the story is that great human cities have a life of their own. Maybe that life awakens quickly, maybe it takes centuries or millennia, but at some point the genius loci becomes a thing in itself. Birth …
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Mar 07 2016
The King In Yellow by Robert W Chambers
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Horror, Romance, Short Stories
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March 7, 2016
This book is easily split into two parts, perhaps three. The first four stories are overtly supernatural and horrific, having to do with a fabled play, The King In Yellow, and its unhappy effects on its readers. The second bit transitions away from TKIY, seguing from horror and romance to horrors of a different sort …
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Dec 05 2015
Rogues edited by George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Short Stories
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December 5, 2015
A solid collection of stories, some better than others, but none, if I’m being quite honest, really a groundbreaker. My favorites were likely The Inn Of The Seven Blessings by Matthew Hughes (whom I’d never heard of before) and Tawny Petticoats by Michael Swanwick (whose Mongolian Wizard series I adore!) The non-fantastic entries were, I …
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Aug 18 2015
Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories
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August 18, 2015
I was initially resistant towards reading this book. If it was bad, I would feel a certain kind of “malu,” the nearly indescribable shade of embarrassment Malaysians feel when one of their own commits a faux pas, akin but not quite the same as the East Asian concept of losing “face.” And if it was …
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May 27 2015
To Be Read 1
- By Doug Merrill in Alternate History, Coming Attractions, Doug, Eastern Europe, Essay, Fantasy, Lists, Mystery, Politics, Russia, Science Fiction, Short Stories
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May 27, 2015
The good news is that at present I can buy books faster than I can read them. The bad news is that at present I can buy books faster than I can read (and review) them. Here are some new things that have appeared (somehow!) in the to-be-read pile, along with what some of my …
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Jan 25 2015
The Giant Book Of Stories by Various
- By Doreen Sheridan in Children's, Doreen, Short Stories
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January 25, 2015
It seems a bit odd, tbh, to lump together the many contributors to this compendium of short stories under the one word “various” but Galley Press never named an editor, and there were enough anonymous contributors that I don’t feel all that bad doing it. Anyway, this book was one of several I brought home …
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Jan 11 2015
The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer
- By Laura Eilers in Fantasy, Laura, Review, Short Stories
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January 11, 2015
The Third Bear is a somewhat unsettling collection of short stories by Jeff VanderMeer. I’ve been trying to find a way to classify this book, and it’s defying me. The stories within range from bizarre to creepy to unnerving, and they took my mind to pictures and ideas that I wouldn’t normally have found on …
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