Tag: short stories
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Cookie Cutter Superhero by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Review of series Cookie Cutter Superhero by Tansy Rayner Roberts. A machine is decided who will be the superheroes in each country on Earth via lottery rotating the heroes out on a set schedule. Each story deals with different aspects of this idea.
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Miniatures by John Scalzi
Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi is a ridiculous title, so I am going to do the reasonable thing and shorten it to Miniatures by John Scalzi. It is a short story collection published in 2016 and is full of short funny stories by Scalzi.
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The Myth of Rain by Seanan McGuire
Review of The Myth of Rain by Seanan McGuire. The Myth of Rain is a short story about animal conservation in the face of climate change. What do we do when the world is burning.
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Each to Each by Seanan McGuire
Review of Each to Each by Seanan McGuire. Each to Each is a science fiction short story The review has spoilers so please don’t read it if you don’t want to know anything.
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The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
Review of The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu. The Hugo winner in the short story category in 2014.
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Human Strandings and the Role of the Xenobiologist
Review of Human Strandings and the Role of the Xenobiologist by Thoraiya Dyer. The story was originally published in Clark’s world and is free online.
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The Master Conjurer
Review of the short story The Master Conjurer by Charlie Jane Anders. The Master Conjurer was first published in Lightspeed Magazine.
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Selkie Stories Are for Losers
Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar. The story was originally published in Strange Horizons and was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story among other awards. My review from 2014 of Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar I liked the story a lot.…
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A Choice of Endings by Tanya Huff
Review of A Choice of Endings by Tanya Huff.
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Jackalope Wives
Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon was first published in Apex Magazine in 2014 (free online). Jackalope Wives won the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and the 2015 WSFA Small Press Award.