2024 online short SFF part 2
Feb. 26th, 2025 10:32 pmHimalia, Carrie Vaughn, Clarkesworld. Growing up on a remote space outpost, and coming home again. Novelette.
Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth, Ann LeBlanc, Three-Lobed Burning Eye. Memory and scholarship and obsession and epistemic decay. A little bit like Terry Bisson's "Smoother" meets that one episode of TNG where Dr. Crusher's in the warp bubble, maybe. Also I had never heard of Three-Lobed Burning Eye (or had I forgotten? heh) but that's a great name and I guess they've been around since 1999 and seem to run interesting, surreal, kind of retro covers.
Signs of Life, Sarah Pinsker, Uncanny. An aging news anchor visits her long-estranged sister. Covers some similar ground as Haunt Sweet Home, like Pinsker was doing variations on a theme. Novelette.
Night Desk Duty at the Infinite Paradox Hotel, Aimee Ogden, Lightspeed. Look, this is more of an extended math joke than a story, but the last line made me laugh, and it's like 800 words long.
Nothing of Value, Aimee Ogden, Lightspeed. A teleporter story about moving on, or not.
A Magician Did It, Rich Larson, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Larson does love a heist or a con or that sort of thing and this is one.
Breathing Constellations, Rich Larson, Reactor. Talking to orcas.
The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin, Zohar Jacobs, Clarkesworld. Alternate space history, people being people, and meanwhile history keeps going. Thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ursula for this excellent rec!
Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth, Ann LeBlanc, Three-Lobed Burning Eye. Memory and scholarship and obsession and epistemic decay. A little bit like Terry Bisson's "Smoother" meets that one episode of TNG where Dr. Crusher's in the warp bubble, maybe. Also I had never heard of Three-Lobed Burning Eye (or had I forgotten? heh) but that's a great name and I guess they've been around since 1999 and seem to run interesting, surreal, kind of retro covers.
Signs of Life, Sarah Pinsker, Uncanny. An aging news anchor visits her long-estranged sister. Covers some similar ground as Haunt Sweet Home, like Pinsker was doing variations on a theme. Novelette.
Night Desk Duty at the Infinite Paradox Hotel, Aimee Ogden, Lightspeed. Look, this is more of an extended math joke than a story, but the last line made me laugh, and it's like 800 words long.
Nothing of Value, Aimee Ogden, Lightspeed. A teleporter story about moving on, or not.
A Magician Did It, Rich Larson, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Larson does love a heist or a con or that sort of thing and this is one.
Breathing Constellations, Rich Larson, Reactor. Talking to orcas.
The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin, Zohar Jacobs, Clarkesworld. Alternate space history, people being people, and meanwhile history keeps going. Thanks to
ursula for this excellent rec!
