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Chambers' influential, haunting stories of the play that seems to break down reality for those who read it. [more inside]
posted by mark k on Oct 31, 2024 - 6 comments

Hugo nominated short stories from Shiv Ramdas, SL Huang, Rivers Solomon, Fran Wilde, Alix E Harrow, and Nibedita Sen (links to the complete stories inside) [more inside]
posted by dinty_moore on May 1, 2020 - 3 comments

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”―Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”―Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and...
posted by CMcG on Dec 8, 2019 - 6 comments

Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories (Microcosm Publishing 2018) - As you ride down the intergalactic bike path, you come to a crossroads. Which path will you take? Your choice could determine your future, or the future of all humanity, forever. These twelve stories explore a variety of intersections set in distant, outlandish, or disturbingly realistic futures and dimensions—all involving bicycles and the breaking of gender stereotypes. A bicycle race spans a rift between worlds. A teenager learns a valuable lesson from her prepper mom. A young fruit seller gets closer to her dream of becoming an astronaut. An overwhelmed mom finds unexpected solace at a bicycle collective. [more inside]
posted by aniola on Oct 15, 2019 - 0 comments

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
posted by komara on May 20, 2019 - 3 comments

All of the novelettes (stories between 7,500 and 17,500 words) that were nominated for a Hugo this year. [more inside]
posted by dinty_moore on May 4, 2019 - 11 comments

For the short stories that appear in the Waterstones Editions of the Peter Grant Novels [more inside]
posted by dinty_moore on Apr 24, 2019 - 2 comments

Short Stories in the Peter Grant Universe - available on audible or the Aaronovitch's website. [more inside]
posted by dinty_moore on Apr 23, 2019 - 6 comments

We're discussion the short stories next week - what should that look like? Multiple posts? What should we cover? [more inside]
posted by dinty_moore on Apr 16, 2019 - 2 comments

A discussion of the shorts stories nominated for a Hugo this year [more inside]
posted by dinty_moore on Apr 6, 2019 - 16 comments