Posted by Tadiana Jones | Apr 2, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 2
Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Several 2017 Nebula short fiction nominees are reviewed in today’s column. A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (2017, free at Clarkesworld, $3.99 Kindle magazine issue). 2017 Nebula award nominee (novelette) In this near-future SF novelette, 3-D printing has become so advanced that a […]
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Posted by Jana Nyman | Mar 26, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 0
Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read that we wanted you to know about, including two excellent Nebula nominees. “Flow” Marissa Lingen (March 2018, free at Fireside Fiction) In Marissa Lingen’s “Flow,” teenaged Gigi, who loves her father and proudly shares his mannerisms, accidentally […]
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Posted by FanLit | Dec 9, 2021 | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 14
Winners of the 2021 Hugo Awards will be announced at the 79th World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) which will be held December 15-19 in Washington DC (DisCon III). (Usually WorldCon is held in August but it was delayed this year due to COVID). The award ceremony takes place on Saturday December 18. The Hugo Award […]
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Posted by FanLit | May 20, 2021 | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 13
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 56th Annual Nebula conference (June 4-6) will be held online this year (as it was last year) and the 2020 Nebula Awards will be announced on Saturday, June 5, 2021. Today let’s talk about the finalists for Best Short Story and Best Novelette. We’ll talk about other categories […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | May 20, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 7
This week’s SHORTS column features some of the 2020 Nebula and 2021 Locus and Hugo award finalists in the novella, novelette, and short story categories. “A Guide for Working Breeds” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (2020, free at Tor.com, originally published in Made to Order: Robots and Revolution) This is an absolutely delightful story! A grumpy […]
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Posted by FanLit | Jul 25, 2019 | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 10
The 2019 Hugo Awards will be presented at Worldcon 77 in Dublin, Ireland, on August 18. The Hugo Award finalists are chosen by readers who are voting members of Worldcon. This week we’ll talk about the finalists for Best Series, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. We […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Jul 26, 2018 | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 12
The 2018 Hugo Awards will be presented at Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California, on August 19. The Hugo Award finalists are chosen by readers who are voting members of Worldcon. This week we’ll talk about the awards for Best Series, Best Young Adult Novel, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Author. We discussed […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Jul 12, 2018 | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 33
The 2018 Hugo Awards will be presented at Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California, on August 19. The Hugo Award finalists are chosen by readers who are voting members of Worldcon. This week we’ll talk about the shortest works, novelettes and short stories. We’ll discuss other categories in future columns. Click the title links below to read […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | May 31, 2018 | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 18
The Nebula Awards are in our rearview, and next up are the Locus Awards, leading us into Hugo Season! The Locus Weekend will be held in Seattle, Washington, on June 22-24, 2018. The Locus Awards have lots of categories, so I am focused on the short fiction this week and in a couple of weeks […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | May 28, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 2
Today’s SHORTS column features all of the 2018 Locus Award finalists for short fiction. The Locus Award winners will be announced by Connie Willis during Locus Award weekend, June 22 – June 24, 2018. NOVELLAS: In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle (2017) Claudio, a middle-aged curmudgeonly farmer living in a remote area of the Italian […]
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