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psocopteraShort stories from Lightspeed.
He Came From a Place of Openness and Truth, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. Odd little playing around with alien and YA tropes.
Things You Can Buy for a Penny, Will Kaufman. A neatly-built fairy tale.
The Way Home, Linda Nagata. Ye olde American-soldiers-through-a-portal fantasy, this one to a particularly hellacious world.
Quiet Town, Jason Gurley. You know, in 10 or 20 years this kind of thing might seem like nothing special at all, but right now, it's topical and I'm a sucker for it.
Time Bomb Time, C.C. Finlay. Very gimmicky but it's an amusing enough gimmick.
Goodnight Earth, Annie Bellet. Supersoldiers in a post apocalyptic future kind of deal.
Influence Isolated, Make Peace, John Chu. Had me at cyborg boyfriends, what can I say.
Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind, Erica L Satifka. This is 736 words long and almost made me cry. I didn't rec this on Twitter because the title is so long, but it's worthwhile.
Madeleine, Amal El-Mohtar. Memories, time travel, and girlfriends.
Given the Advantage of the Blade, Genevieve Valentine. Princess fights! But more than that!
And We Were Left Darkling, Sarah Pinsker. Dream children. Beautiful and shivery.
Ghosts of Home, Sam J. Miller. The foreclosure crisis personified, clever and sharp.
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death, Caroline M. Yoachim. I feel like when I write tropey fanfic (universe-swapping, mysterious duplicates, shrinking, etc) my characters tend to be much more focused on solving the problem than in some other similar fic. I liked the problem-solving focus in this time-travel story.
The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley. Starts like military SF, ends like something more.
Beacon 23: Little Noises, Hugh Howey. Ye olde fixing-shit-in-space story.
Not Hugo eligible (there are always a few reprints I can't resist reading):
Water Rights, An Owomoyela. Near-space human expansion sf. From 2012.
The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees, John Barnes. Close encounters, the abyss, etc. From 2010.
He Came From a Place of Openness and Truth, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. Odd little playing around with alien and YA tropes.
Things You Can Buy for a Penny, Will Kaufman. A neatly-built fairy tale.
The Way Home, Linda Nagata. Ye olde American-soldiers-through-a-portal fantasy, this one to a particularly hellacious world.
Quiet Town, Jason Gurley. You know, in 10 or 20 years this kind of thing might seem like nothing special at all, but right now, it's topical and I'm a sucker for it.
Time Bomb Time, C.C. Finlay. Very gimmicky but it's an amusing enough gimmick.
Goodnight Earth, Annie Bellet. Supersoldiers in a post apocalyptic future kind of deal.
Influence Isolated, Make Peace, John Chu. Had me at cyborg boyfriends, what can I say.
Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind, Erica L Satifka. This is 736 words long and almost made me cry. I didn't rec this on Twitter because the title is so long, but it's worthwhile.
Madeleine, Amal El-Mohtar. Memories, time travel, and girlfriends.
Given the Advantage of the Blade, Genevieve Valentine. Princess fights! But more than that!
And We Were Left Darkling, Sarah Pinsker. Dream children. Beautiful and shivery.
Ghosts of Home, Sam J. Miller. The foreclosure crisis personified, clever and sharp.
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death, Caroline M. Yoachim. I feel like when I write tropey fanfic (universe-swapping, mysterious duplicates, shrinking, etc) my characters tend to be much more focused on solving the problem than in some other similar fic. I liked the problem-solving focus in this time-travel story.
The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley. Starts like military SF, ends like something more.
Beacon 23: Little Noises, Hugh Howey. Ye olde fixing-shit-in-space story.
Not Hugo eligible (there are always a few reprints I can't resist reading):
Water Rights, An Owomoyela. Near-space human expansion sf. From 2012.
The Birds and the Bees and the Gasoline Trees, John Barnes. Close encounters, the abyss, etc. From 2010.
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Date: 2016-02-12 02:48 am (UTC)