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Clarkesworld.
Clarkesworld doesn't always say what year their reprints are from. Huh, I remember not liking very many of their stories at all last year, but this year I can hardly stop adding things to this list. Of course the recs are useless if there's too many of them. I guess I can hope my descriptions can help make them more winnow-able.
I loved the December cover, by Lake Hurwitz, a possible pro artist nominee.
Tongtong's Summer, Xia Jia. Reprinted from a 2014 anthology. A nice mix of funny and not-too-sappy in this story about telepresence and elderly care.
Pernicious Romance, Robert Reed.
The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009, Ken Liu. Goddamn this story makes me angry that we're using our irreplaceable planetary helium for party balloons.
A gorgeous Julie Dillon cover. Julie Dillon won Pro Artist last year so I kind of want to nominate other people, but dang do I like her stuff.
Seeking boarder for rm w/ attached bathroom, must be willing to live with ghosts ($500/Berkeley), Rahul Kanakia. Ouch.
Giants, Peter Watts. Reprint from a 2014 source. Novelette. Far-future space exploration story.
Stone Hunger, N.K. Jemisin. This is apparently related to her upcoming novel Fifth Season somehow - maybe the way that first Dreamblood story was related to the books - and was awesome, can't wait to read the novel. Possible nominee.
The Contemporary Foxwife, Yoon Ha Lee. Aw, this is super charming.
Communion, Mary Anne Mohanraj. Ooh, this is a followup story to Stars Change, with some closure for one of the characters I really liked. I don't know if it would make any sense if you haven't read that though.
wHole, Robert Reed. Very Greg Egan.
The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye, Matthew Kressel. If you like Vernor Vinge you'll probably like this extreme-far-future story.
Passage of Earth, Michael Swanwick. DUDE. Disturbing and memorable. Possible nominee for me.
Autodidact. I still think this is a good story despite everything about Benjanun Sriduangkaew.
Water in Springtime, Kali Wallace. It's interesting reading some of these for a second time - I think I tend to like some of them more the second time around. I didn't put this fantasy story on my list last April but now I am.
Morrigan in the Sunglare, Seth Dickinson. What is the place of a killer in a culture that has genuinely tried to become more ethical? What happens when an ethical culture goes to war?
I like the February cover which turns out to be by Julie Dillon again.
The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul, Natalia Theodoridou. I imagine this is what you might get if someone asked for Strandbeests as a Yuletide fandom - interesting to me as fanfic about art.
Wine, Yoon Ha Lee. Dark SF-or-maybe-high-fantasy novelette.
Clarkesworld doesn't always say what year their reprints are from. Huh, I remember not liking very many of their stories at all last year, but this year I can hardly stop adding things to this list. Of course the recs are useless if there's too many of them. I guess I can hope my descriptions can help make them more winnow-able.
I loved the December cover, by Lake Hurwitz, a possible pro artist nominee.
Tongtong's Summer, Xia Jia. Reprinted from a 2014 anthology. A nice mix of funny and not-too-sappy in this story about telepresence and elderly care.
Pernicious Romance, Robert Reed.
The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009, Ken Liu. Goddamn this story makes me angry that we're using our irreplaceable planetary helium for party balloons.
A gorgeous Julie Dillon cover. Julie Dillon won Pro Artist last year so I kind of want to nominate other people, but dang do I like her stuff.
Seeking boarder for rm w/ attached bathroom, must be willing to live with ghosts ($500/Berkeley), Rahul Kanakia. Ouch.
Giants, Peter Watts. Reprint from a 2014 source. Novelette. Far-future space exploration story.
Stone Hunger, N.K. Jemisin. This is apparently related to her upcoming novel Fifth Season somehow - maybe the way that first Dreamblood story was related to the books - and was awesome, can't wait to read the novel. Possible nominee.
The Contemporary Foxwife, Yoon Ha Lee. Aw, this is super charming.
Communion, Mary Anne Mohanraj. Ooh, this is a followup story to Stars Change, with some closure for one of the characters I really liked. I don't know if it would make any sense if you haven't read that though.
wHole, Robert Reed. Very Greg Egan.
The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye, Matthew Kressel. If you like Vernor Vinge you'll probably like this extreme-far-future story.
Passage of Earth, Michael Swanwick. DUDE. Disturbing and memorable. Possible nominee for me.
Autodidact. I still think this is a good story despite everything about Benjanun Sriduangkaew.
Water in Springtime, Kali Wallace. It's interesting reading some of these for a second time - I think I tend to like some of them more the second time around. I didn't put this fantasy story on my list last April but now I am.
Morrigan in the Sunglare, Seth Dickinson. What is the place of a killer in a culture that has genuinely tried to become more ethical? What happens when an ethical culture goes to war?
I like the February cover which turns out to be by Julie Dillon again.
The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul, Natalia Theodoridou. I imagine this is what you might get if someone asked for Strandbeests as a Yuletide fandom - interesting to me as fanfic about art.
Wine, Yoon Ha Lee. Dark SF-or-maybe-high-fantasy novelette.
