There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we’ve recently read.
“Please Undo this Hurt” by Seth Dickinson (2015, free at Tor.com, Kindle version)
This is a really beautiful story about compassion, pain, and what it means to burn out. “Please Undo This Hurt” seems very realistic and not so much fantasy for a little while. I spent some time at the beginning waiting for the other shoe to drop.
May 16th, 2016. Skye Walker, Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper | Brandon Sanderson, Clifford D. Simak, Genevieve Valentine, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Hill, Seth Dickinson | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read (or listened to!) this week that we wanted you to know about.
“Red as Blood and White as Bone” by Theodora Goss (May 2016, free at Tor.com, $0.99 Kindle version)
Klara, the daughter of a woodcutter, now a kitchen maid at a wealthy baron’s castle, deeply loves fairy tales, which are the only outlet for her imagination. Perhaps she is a princess in disguise,
May 9th, 2016. Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper | Jonathan Maberry, Theodora Goss | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few of the stories we read this week.
“The Desert Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar” by Rose Lemberg (March 2016, free at Uncanny Magazine, Kindle magazine issue)
In this lush story, Lemberg shows us a long-distance romance developing between two makers-of-things. Maru lives in the desert and sings sand into glass; Vadrai lives in the Northern woods and uses deepnames to inscribe images into jewels.
May 2nd, 2016. Kate Lechler, Kat Hooper, Tadiana Jones, Marion Deeds, Terry Weyna and Jana Nyman | Kevin Brockmeier | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Viewers who tuned into the new Thriller program on NBC, on the night of September 13, 1960, a Tuesday, could have had little idea that the mildly suspenseful program that they saw that evening — one that concerned a male ad exec being stalked by a female admirer — would soon morph into the show that author Stephen King would later call “the best horror series ever put on TV.” The first eight episodes of Thriller came off as hour-long homages to Alfred Hitchcock Presents,
May 2nd, 2016. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Charles Beaumont, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
The Expanse Season 1
A couple of weeks ago I watched Syfy’s space-opera adaptation The Expanse all the way through, ten and a half hours. The series left me eager for January 2017, and Season Two; it also inspired me to go buy the first two books. I call that a success.
My comments here are about the television show, not the books. Daniel Abrahamson & Ty Franck, who wrote THE EXPANSE novels under the name James S.A. Corey, have writing credits on all ten episodes,
April 29th, 2016. Marion Deeds | James S.A. Corey | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | 7 comments |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about.
“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (April 2016, free at Clarkesworld magazine, Kindle magazine issue)
In “Touring with the Alien,” an unnamed alien species has landed impenetrable bubble ships on Earth and is sending out “translators,” apparently-human people who claim that they were abducted as children and raised by the aliens.
April 25th, 2016. Kate Lechler, Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper | Andy Weir, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Cixin Liu, David D. Levine, Kij Johnson | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Here are a few of the short stories we read this week, all of which are free to read online.
“The Summer People” by Kelly Link (February 2015, free online at Wall Street Journal, also included in her anthology Get in Trouble)
“The Summer People” is the first story in Kelly Link’s new story collection Get in Trouble. Fran is a teenager living in a rural part of the American southeast. Her mother is gone,
April 18th, 2016. Marion Deeds, Katie Burton and Tadiana Jones | Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, Marie Brennan, Melissa Marr, T. Kingfisher | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about.
“The Cage” by A.M. Dellamonica (2010, free online at Tor.com or purchase Kindle version)
“The Cage,” a stand-alone short story by A.M. Dellamonica, was published a few years ago on Tor.com; I read it a while ago, re-read it recently, and am happy to report that it was just as enjoyable the second time around.
April 11th, 2016. Jana Nyman, Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper | A.M. Dellamonica, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Carrie Vaughn, Kameron Hurley | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Here are some of the short fiction works we read this week that we wanted to share with you.
“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe (1843, free online at Poe Stories, Kindle version)
I recently stumbled upon PoeStories.com and am pleased with the find. A Poe a day may well keep boredom at bay. The website helpfully gives descriptions of each story. I chose this one for the enticing simplicity of the summary: “a horror story about a cat”.
This is indeed a horror story about a cat,
March 21st, 2016. Katie Burton, Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper | George MacDonald | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
Here are some of the stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about, most of which are free to read online. This week we continue focusing on 2015 Nebula-nominated short fiction, along with some other stories that caught our attention.
“Everybody Loves Charles” by Bao Shu, trans. Ken Liu (2016, free at Clarkesworld magazine; Kindle magazine issue).
I listened to this novella in the car on the way to WriteFest in Houston,
March 14th, 2016. Kate Lechler, Tadiana Jones, Kat Hooper and Jana Nyman | R.A. Salvatore, Ray Bradbury, Sarah Pinsker | Nebula Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
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