2018 online short SFF - Beneath Ceaseless Skies Jan-May

[psocoptera]

I was hoping to be done by today and get a shortlist up but I'm only halfway through BCS and still have a bunch of miscellaneous recs to check out, so... that's where I am.

Suite for Accompanied Cello, Tamara Vardomskaya. A musician and a competition.

Penitents, Rich Larson. Some quality disturbing imagery here.

Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing, Sarah Pinsker. Tradition vs innovation.

Gennesaret, Phoenix Alexander. Major content note for child death. Mixed feelings about this - this story is pretty clearly a direct response to a certain extremely horrific news photo of recent years, probably one of the most upsetting things I've ever seen (unfortunately on Facebook w/no option not to look), and on the one hand I'm not sure we should science-fictionalize things like that, and on the other hand it's a powerful story and, to me, at least, feels like it honors and respects the refugees that inspired it. So... I don't know. Not a rec, but I wanted to talk about it.

The War of Light and Shadow, in Five Dishes, Siobhan Carroll. An army marches on its stomach.

Fireskin, Joanne Rixon. Neat chronic-illness metaphor.

Comments

[irilyth]

Hm, looks like BCS only does a podcast of one story per issue, so I have Gennesaret and not Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing, which is too bad, 'cause I like Sarah Pinsker a lot. But I'll listen to Gennesaret, if you want to talk about it. :^)

(Also no luck on Fireskin; they did a podcast of Weft that month.)

[psocoptera]

Nah, I mean, I wanted to say what I said there, and I have now said it. When I said I wanted to talk about it what I meant was that I wanted to comment upon it. :)