A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker Luce Cannon was a rising rock star, traveling with a new band and doing live shows all over the country, until a rash of deadly terrorist attacks, and the threat of more to come, caused the American government to criminalize large public gatherings. Now, instead of […]
Read MoreKat Hooper and Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Sarah Pinsker | Nebula Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker Often in magical realism, a writer takes one little bit of magic and plunks it into an otherwise entirely realistic story, like adding a single drop of blue food dye into a glass of water that remains water, but water newly, wholly colored by that one tiny drop. In […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Sarah Pinsker | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The first of three novelettes in the February 2014 issue of Asimov’s is Derek Künsken’s “Schools of Clay,” a space opera that is almost incomprehensible. It concerns a race of beings that is modeled on bees, apparently, with queens, workers and new generations of princesses. These beings mine asteroid belts and seem to be partly machine and […]
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Here are the short stories nominated for a 2014 Nebula Award: In “The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard, the main character, Rechan, is pregnant. She must find her breath-sibling before she gives birth, or the baby will be stillborn. That, and the fact that they are carved by adolescent women from a special stone called […]
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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 […]
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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. Finnegan’s Field by Angela Slatter (Jan. 2016, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle version) This grim story of a mother’s love for her child taps into […]
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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. The Bohemian Astrobleme by Kage Baker (2010, free at Subterranean Press, also included in Nell Gwynne’s Scarlet Spy) The Bohemian Astrobleme is an entertaining Victorian […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones | Kage Baker, Sarah Pinsker | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
our weekly exploration of free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. This week’s (entirely coincidental) theme seems to be the monstrous elements within us. The Dark Birds by Ursula Vernon (Jan. 2017, free at Apex, $2.99 Kindle magazine issue) This creepy story is told by one of the ogre’s daughters, who lives in a home where the […]
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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. The Waiting Stars by Aliette de Bodard (2013, free to read online or download on author’s website). 2013 Nebula award winner and 2014 Hugo award nominee (novelette) In this 2013 […]
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Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. This week we begin focusing on the 2017 Nebula award nominees in the short fiction categories. Wind Will Rove by Sarah Pinsker (2017, originally published in Asimov’s, Sept-Oct 2017 issue; free PDF available at the author’s website). 2017 Nebula nominee (novelette) Rosie, […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones and Bill Capossere | Sarah Pinsker | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
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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Our weekly exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Bill and Tadiana both weigh in on a few more of this year’s Nebula nominees (and one other excellent short story that Tadiana thinks should have been nominated), and Tadiana comments on the 20Booksto50K Nebula controversy. “STET” by Sarah Gailey (2018, free at […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones and Bill Capossere | Rhett C. Bruno, Sarah Gailey, Sarah Pinsker | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
SHORTS: Our column exploring free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. In this week’s column, we review more of the current crop of 2019 Nebula nominees in the short story and novelette categories. “A Strange Uncertain Light” by G.V. Anderson (2019, Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine). 2019 Nebula Award nominee (novelette). Anne and […]
Read MoreTerry Weyna and Tadiana Jones | Fran Wilde, Sarah Pinsker | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
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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The New Voices of Fantasy edited by Peter Beagle This collection of nineteen fantasy short works, edited by Peter Beagle, is definitely worthwhile if you like speculative short fiction. Many of them left an impact on me, and a few are true standouts. These stories are by relatively new authors in the speculative fiction genre and are […]
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