Charlie Jane Anders’s novel All the Birds in the Sky came out earlier this year, and has been very well received. This unusual tale follows the lives of a witch and a super-scientist who were best friends in middle school, and raises lots of questions about science, magic, popular culture, and coming of age. Anders […]
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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders, is a likeable book. The writing is fluent, filled with grace notes, witty observations and jokes that poke fun, but gently, at certain subcultures and stereotypes — mostly, the ones we all enjoy mocking from […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds and Katie Burton´s rating: 3 | Charlie Jane Anders | Nebula Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Rock Manning Goes for Broke by Charlie Jane Anders The thing I loved the most about Rock Manning Goes for Broke, the 2018 novella by Charlie Jane Anders, is the narrative voce of Rock himself. Here are the opening lines: Earliest I remember, Daddy threw me off the roof of our split-level house. “Boy’s gotta […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 5 | Charlie Jane Anders | Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders The second novel by Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night (2019), surprised me. Having read her fantastical debut novel All the Birds in the Sky, and her sociological science fiction novella Rock Manning Goes for Broke, I was […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 5 | Charlie Jane Anders | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders 2021’s Victories Greater That Death is the first book in Charlie Jane Anders’s new Young Adult space opera series, UNSTOPPABLE. The book is filled with smart, heroic young people, extraterrestrials, space adventures, horrifying villains, bad food and plenty of relationships, as six Terran humans get pulled up […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Charlie Jane Anders | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders “Knowledge is ugly, and that’s why we wear cute dresses and eat cake.” As with most second books in a trilogy, things are bad, teetering on the precipice, by the end of Charlie Jane Anders’s second YA SF book Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak (2022). Our stalwart band […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Charlie Jane Anders | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
It was a treat to reread Geoff Ryman’s “What We Found” to prepare to write this column. As I noted when I wrote about this story for my review on the issue of F&SF in which it originally appeared, Ryman has been writing in recent years of third-world cultures, in such a way that the […]
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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. “Doctor Kitty Solves All Your Love Problems” by Carrie Vaughn (2001, originally published in Weird Tales 324 (Summer 2001), free on the author’s website) Kitty […]
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Special Halloween issue of SHORTS: This week all of the stories reviewed in SHORTS feature zombies, haunted houses, vampires, intelligent rats, and various other types of creepiness and spookiness. Enjoy! The Modern Ladies’ Letter-Writer by Sandra McDonald (March 2016, free at Nightmare, Kindle magazine issue) There are customary ways to begin a letter and end it, to […]
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There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week: “The Loud Table” by Jonathan Carroll (Nov. 2016, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle version) A group of retired old men meets every day at a coffee shop to hang out most of […]
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Our weekly exploration of free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “Report” by Donald Barthelme (1967, originally published in the New Yorker, free at Jessamyn.com (reprinted by permission), also collected in Sixty Stories) “Our group is against the […]
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After a few weeks’ vacation, SHORTS returns to continue exploring free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read recently that we wanted you to know about. “As Good as New” by Charlie Jane Anders (2014, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle version) Marisol Guzmán, a pre-med student who decided that […]
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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 […]
Read MoreKat Hooper, Skye Walker, Taya Okerlund, Terry Weyna, Bill Capossere, Nathan Okerlund, Tadiana Jones and Katie Burton | Charlie Jane Anders, Elizabeth Hand, JY Yang, Kai Ashante Wilson, Karen Joy Fowler, Ken Liu, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Peter S. Beagle, Samuel R. Delany | Audio, Horror, Locus Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Women Destroy Science Fiction! Lightspeed Magazine Special Issue: The Stories edited by Christie Yant, Robyn Lupo, Rachel Swirsky Last June, Hugo-winning Lightspeed Magazine, which is edited by John Joseph Adams, devoted an entire issue (Women Destroy Science Fiction!, June 2014, issue #49) to female science fiction writers and editors. Under Christie Yant’s and Robyn Lupo’s editorial […]
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Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 edited by Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams Karen Joy Fowler is the guest editor of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016. This is the second book in the annual series, which John Joseph Adams conceived of, and he still plays a large role in the […]
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A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers edited by Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams In reaction to the Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States as well as to the rhetoric spewed by his far-right supporters such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, Victor […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Ashok K. Banker, Catherynne M. Valente, Charles Yu, Charlie Jane Anders, Daniel José Older, G. Willow Wilson, Hugh Howey, Justina Ireland, Malka Older, Maria Dahvana Headley, N.K. Jemisin, Sam J. Miller, Seanan McGuire, Tobias Buckell, Victor Lavalle | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
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