2019 online short SFF - Clarkesworld Jul-Dec

Second half of Clarkesworld had a good novelette and my three favorite short stories so far:

The Visible Frontier, Grace Seybold. A young man on a trading voyage. The slow reveal of the situation is excellent.

Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart, Sam J. Miller. So, if you remember "Things with Beards", which took The Thing and made it about AIDS and it was amazing, this is a similar concept, only a different pair of things.

Entangled, Beston Barnett. An alien citizen of Earth, looking for connection.

The Yorkshire Mammoth, Harry Turtledove. A James Herriot story from a slightly different world.

Your Face, Rachel Swirsky. An interesting counterpoint to the other Swirsky story I recommended earlier.

Dave's Head, Suzanne Palmer. There's a lot going on here! Recommended. NOVELETTE.

Such Thoughts Are Unproductive, Rebecca Campbell. Life in the surveillance state, the disinformation state.

Annotated Setlist of the Mikaela Cole Jazz Quintet, Catherine George. Generation ship story that managed to hit a couple of beats I don't think I'd seen before.

2019 online short SFF - Future Tense

Forgot to list Future Tense, Slate's SF fiction + commentary project, on my list of what I planned to read, but it's only one story per month, so was pretty fast to read through.

Thoughts and Prayers, Ken Liu. Mass shootings and online harassment. Content note for child death.

No Moon and Flat Calm, Elizabeth Bear. Disaster in space.

Affordances, Cory Doctorow. Trying to get by in a world ruled by algorithms.

Actually Naneen, Malka Older. Whether to replace the robot nanny.