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2024 online short SFF
Feb. 25th, 2025 04:26 pmI keep thinking I should read some online short SFF and then reading more of the news, despite being sure I'd be much happier reading SFF. Well, sometimes it is like that. Anyways, here's an initial post. As of right now I have six stories on my list; these are things I read at some point during the year and added to my recs file:
Median, Kelly Robson, Reactor. Car trouble and caregiving.
A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places, Marissa Lingen, BCS. A disabled archivist whose mother hopes for a cure.
The Spindle of Necessity, B. Pladek, Strange Horizons. Very meta story about stories and identity and authenticity.
Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, A.W. Prihandita, Clarkesworld. Medicine and licensing and helping and listening. Novelette.
Exit Interview, K.W. Onley, Strange Horizons. Portals, but only for Black women. Novelette.
By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars, Premee Mohamed, Strange Horizons. An aging wizard, an apprentice, and a problem. Novelette.
Of these stories, the Lingen, Prihandita, and Onley stories are not on the Locus list, the Robson, Pladek, and Mohamed are. (Relevant to their odds of showing up as awards nominees.)
Many of my favorite authors or authors I follow with interest don't have anything I'm reccing this year: Naomi Kritzer has something in Asimov's, but nothing online. Rebecca Campbell doesn't have any 2024 work. Adam R Shannon doesn't have any 2024 work. Isabel J Kim has one story in Clarkesworld, "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole", which, like, fine, as engagement with Omelas goes that is one, but I don't want to rec it at this time. If it makes a ballot I'm voting on I'll decide what to do about it then. Peter Watts doesn't have any 2024 stuff. Ray Nayler had something in Asimov's. Nghi Vo had one story in Uncanny, "Stitched to Skin like Family Is", which was fine but I didn't quite like enough to rec. Lina Rather doesn't have any 2024 stuff. Mary Anne Mohanraj doesn't have any 2024 stuff. Iona Datt Sharma doesn't have any 2024 stuff. Greg Egan had stories in Asimov's and Analog. Suzanne Palmer doesn't have any 2024 short stuff. (I guess there's another novel out in the Finder series, which I am already like three books behind on, oops.)
I do now have tabs open to read works by Sarah Pinsker, Ann LeBlanc, Aimee Ogden, Carrie Vaughn, and Rich Larson. And I'm sure there are other people who I'll come across and realize I would of course have looked them up by name if I had thought of them. My plan is to read through these open tabs, then work through the Locus List, then go through the rest of Strange Horizons and khōréō if I have time, or maybe see what's on the recs spreadsheet. I would also be delighted to take recommendations! (Looking specifically for online short stuff at this time; I don't think I have time to add any more novels or novellas to what I'm already trying to read before deadlines, which is, uh, several.)
Median, Kelly Robson, Reactor. Car trouble and caregiving.
A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places, Marissa Lingen, BCS. A disabled archivist whose mother hopes for a cure.
The Spindle of Necessity, B. Pladek, Strange Horizons. Very meta story about stories and identity and authenticity.
Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, A.W. Prihandita, Clarkesworld. Medicine and licensing and helping and listening. Novelette.
Exit Interview, K.W. Onley, Strange Horizons. Portals, but only for Black women. Novelette.
By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars, Premee Mohamed, Strange Horizons. An aging wizard, an apprentice, and a problem. Novelette.
Of these stories, the Lingen, Prihandita, and Onley stories are not on the Locus list, the Robson, Pladek, and Mohamed are. (Relevant to their odds of showing up as awards nominees.)
Many of my favorite authors or authors I follow with interest don't have anything I'm reccing this year: Naomi Kritzer has something in Asimov's, but nothing online. Rebecca Campbell doesn't have any 2024 work. Adam R Shannon doesn't have any 2024 work. Isabel J Kim has one story in Clarkesworld, "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole", which, like, fine, as engagement with Omelas goes that is one, but I don't want to rec it at this time. If it makes a ballot I'm voting on I'll decide what to do about it then. Peter Watts doesn't have any 2024 stuff. Ray Nayler had something in Asimov's. Nghi Vo had one story in Uncanny, "Stitched to Skin like Family Is", which was fine but I didn't quite like enough to rec. Lina Rather doesn't have any 2024 stuff. Mary Anne Mohanraj doesn't have any 2024 stuff. Iona Datt Sharma doesn't have any 2024 stuff. Greg Egan had stories in Asimov's and Analog. Suzanne Palmer doesn't have any 2024 short stuff. (I guess there's another novel out in the Finder series, which I am already like three books behind on, oops.)
I do now have tabs open to read works by Sarah Pinsker, Ann LeBlanc, Aimee Ogden, Carrie Vaughn, and Rich Larson. And I'm sure there are other people who I'll come across and realize I would of course have looked them up by name if I had thought of them. My plan is to read through these open tabs, then work through the Locus List, then go through the rest of Strange Horizons and khōréō if I have time, or maybe see what's on the recs spreadsheet. I would also be delighted to take recommendations! (Looking specifically for online short stuff at this time; I don't think I have time to add any more novels or novellas to what I'm already trying to read before deadlines, which is, uh, several.)
