2019 short SFF - short stories
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psocopteraAnd here's my shortlist of short stories:
Tower, Lane Waldman. Maaaan the imagery in this Rapunzel retelling.
The Visible Frontier, Grace Seybold. A young man on a trading voyage. The slow reveal of the situation is excellent.
Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart, Sam J. Miller. So, if you remember "Things with Beards", which took The Thing and made it about AIDS and it was amazing, this is a similar concept, only a different pair of things.
Such Thoughts Are Unproductive, Rebecca Campbell. Life in the surveillance state, the disinformation state.
Self-Storage Starts with the Heart, Maria Romasco-Moore. Emotions, externalized.
A Bird, a Song, a Revolution, Brooke Bolander. Great sense of deep time and the long human story in this. F/F.
Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island, Nibedita Sen, Nightmare Magazine. I like the way this format gives the impression of a slow reveal in a very small number of words.
Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders, Malka Older. Climate grief, and an octopus.
I'm thinking... Seybold, Campbell, Romasco-Moore, Bolander, Sen as my nominees? The Bolander story is on the Locus list, none of the rest are, although the Sen story is a Nebula nominee so obviously it has fans. (And Sen has two other short stories on the Locus list. Sen for the Astounding? By which I mean both that I am nominating her and predicting that she'll make the ballot.)
Tower, Lane Waldman. Maaaan the imagery in this Rapunzel retelling.
The Visible Frontier, Grace Seybold. A young man on a trading voyage. The slow reveal of the situation is excellent.
Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart, Sam J. Miller. So, if you remember "Things with Beards", which took The Thing and made it about AIDS and it was amazing, this is a similar concept, only a different pair of things.
Such Thoughts Are Unproductive, Rebecca Campbell. Life in the surveillance state, the disinformation state.
Self-Storage Starts with the Heart, Maria Romasco-Moore. Emotions, externalized.
A Bird, a Song, a Revolution, Brooke Bolander. Great sense of deep time and the long human story in this. F/F.
Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island, Nibedita Sen, Nightmare Magazine. I like the way this format gives the impression of a slow reveal in a very small number of words.
Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders, Malka Older. Climate grief, and an octopus.
I'm thinking... Seybold, Campbell, Romasco-Moore, Bolander, Sen as my nominees? The Bolander story is on the Locus list, none of the rest are, although the Sen story is a Nebula nominee so obviously it has fans. (And Sen has two other short stories on the Locus list. Sen for the Astounding? By which I mean both that I am nominating her and predicting that she'll make the ballot.)
