Saturday Storytime: If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love
One of the great things about an award nomination list coming out is that it gives me a great excuse to feature authors here more than once. I love finding new (to me) authors and sharing them, but...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Selkie Stories Are for Losers
It’s award nomination time again. As I said last week, this is my annual excuse to revisit great writers I’ve featured before. This week, it’s Sofia Samatar‘s turn, with another great story I passed on...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Tornado’s Siren
It is still award nomination season in F&SF land, which makes me very happy. So many people pointing to good things I missed because I don’t have the time to read everything. (The reason for this...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade
Still reading off Rachel Swirsky’s Campbell recommendation list because wow. Benjanun Sriduangkaew has published mostly in anthologies, so this is one of your few opportunities to read her online,...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Turnover
Y’all know who Jo Walton is, right? She’s only won just about every genre award that exists. Well, if you don’t know her, consider this story a nice little taste of her work. “We’ll never get to the...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: The End of the World in Five Dates
I’ve featured one of Claire Humphrey‘s stories here before, but this one got to me. It started with the Harold Camping. It ended with..well, that would be spoiling it. Let’s just say I remember knowing...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Little Faces
Vonda McIntyre is one of the earliest women to be nominated for a Hugo. She’s been nominated several more times for several more awards since then. It will be unsurprising to anyone who reads this...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Glory Awaits
Did you know that Adam Lee has published two science fiction novels? Dark Heart and Broken Ring follow the life of Myrren Kahliana, a young woman in a world in which gods are real but can still be...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Ten Sigmas
This story from Paul Melko is going to spoil me on parallel world tales for a little while I think. I mean that in a good way. In some worlds, the truck is there, past us, or there, coming down the...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Falling From Earth to Haphazard Sky (Tadpole Remix)
I was flipping through a bunch of recently published F&SF stories, waiting for a title to catch my eye when a name caught my eye instead. E. Catherine Tobler. Checked the blog. Nope, hadn’t...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: The Gifts of the Giving Tree
When I read Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, I loathed it. A lot of that reaction came from comparing the contents to all the recommendations of the book. The more I learn about Silverstein, though,...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Falling Leaves
Liz Argall, among other things, plays roller derby and writes “A comic about creatures who are kind“. Don’t let that fool you, though. This story is one of the hard ones. Charlotte and Nessa met in...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: If God Is Watching
If you’re on Twitter, you probably know Mikki Kendall as Karnythia, one of those people who can manage incisive social commentary in 140-character chunks. You may not have read her fiction, though. You...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Going After Bobo
One of the great things about reprints in our digital age is that they continue to extend the reach of these stories going forward. People don’t need to collect back issues of a magazine in order to...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: A Word Shaped Like Bones
The Women Destroy Science Fiction issue of Lightspeed Magazine is out and being praised and vilified in (I am happy to say) decidedly unequal measure. A few of the stories are available online. More...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: The Case of the Passionless Bees
Another from the Women Destroy Science Fiction issue of Lightspeed Magazine. I’m glad this, by Rhonda Eikamp, is one they chose to make publicly accessible, and not just because I’ve been reading...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Toad Words
Ursula Vernon has, among many other things, won a Hugo for her graphic novel Digger and created the lovely, wonderful Morally Ambiguous Honey Badgers. This week, she did this. Frogs fall out of my...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden’s Syndrome
Y’all probably know who John Scalzi is. What you may not know is that he has a prequel of sorts for his new novel Lock In available to read online. It’s worth it. It was clear this wasn’t the H5N1...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Blessed Are the Hungry
Apex Publishing has been bringing good science fiction and fantasy to American authors for several years with its Books of World SF series. This is a tradition Apex Magazine follows as well, as with...
View ArticleSaturday Storytime: Chopin’s Eyes
I’m not usually a fan of the Victorian propensity to romanticize illness, but this story from Lara Elena Donnelly does things a little differently. George courts Chopin like a terrier down a rabbit’s...
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