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psocopteraTor seems to be moving their novella publishing away from their free online fiction and into $2.99 ebooks, but they put up a couple, before they started that. GigaNotoSaurus, meanwhile, published mostly novelettes and short stories last year, which I think is a move away from their previous all-novelette pattern. Anyways. Three novellas, for your novella-reading pleasure.
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman Malik, in Tor.com. A gorgeous, slow-building fantasy of history and memory and family like a sort of emotionally-inverted Lovecraft story, sublime instead of horrific. Highly recommended.
Waters of Versailles, Kelly Robson, Tor.com. Magical plumbing in 1738 Versailles. Cute idea.
Quarter Days, Iona Sharma, in GigaNotoSaurus. Magic and recovery in post-WWI London. This is set in the same world as Nine Thousand Hours, a few generations earlier, verrry interesting to see that kind of thought put into the worldbuilding, not just what makes a neat alternate present but the alternate past that goes with it and how it evolved. I would love to see more stories in this world from even further in the past, or elsewhere in the world.
Let me just point out here that Iona Sharma is Campbell-eligible (Nine Thousand Hours was her first qualifying work) and I'll definitely be nominating her for it.
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman Malik, in Tor.com. A gorgeous, slow-building fantasy of history and memory and family like a sort of emotionally-inverted Lovecraft story, sublime instead of horrific. Highly recommended.
Waters of Versailles, Kelly Robson, Tor.com. Magical plumbing in 1738 Versailles. Cute idea.
Quarter Days, Iona Sharma, in GigaNotoSaurus. Magic and recovery in post-WWI London. This is set in the same world as Nine Thousand Hours, a few generations earlier, verrry interesting to see that kind of thought put into the worldbuilding, not just what makes a neat alternate present but the alternate past that goes with it and how it evolved. I would love to see more stories in this world from even further in the past, or elsewhere in the world.
Let me just point out here that Iona Sharma is Campbell-eligible (Nine Thousand Hours was her first qualifying work) and I'll definitely be nominating her for it.
