SHORTS is our regular short fiction review column (previously SFM or Short Fiction Monday). In today’s column we review several more of the 2019 Locus award nominees in the short fiction categories.
No Flight Without the Shatter by Brooke Bolander (2018, free at Tor.com; 99c Kindle version). 2019 Locus award nominee (novelette).
No Flight Without the Shatter brings together Linnea and her Aunties Ben, Dora, and Martha at the end of the world. Linnea is recognizably human,
May 24th, 2019. Jana Nyman, Tadiana Jones and Bill Capossere | Brooke Bolander, Jeffrey Ford, Ken Liu, N.K. Jemisin, Theodora Goss, Ursula K. Le-Guin | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Gone Away Place by Christopher Barzak
Because of a stupid fight with her high school boyfriend, Ellie Frame cut school one day to took sorrowful refuge in a nearby faux lighthouse, where she falls asleep. What wakes her is a series of devastating tornadoes that rip through her small rural Ohio town of Newfoundland, killing nearly a hundred people, including Ellie’s boyfriend Noah and several of her best friends. Not all the dead are gone, however; some remain behind, visible to many of the town’s residents and especially their loved ones as they hover “in the grey place” between life and death.
May 24th, 2019. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Christopher Barzak | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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