2021 SFF - Short Stories Shortlist
Mar. 1st, 2022 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraAs with the novelettes, I am still reading, but I wanted to go ahead and post some favorites/likely nominees. I will edit this post as I find more.
Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station, Ann LeBlanc, Mermaids Monthly. An original and compelling take on time loops.
All Us Ghosts, B. Pladek, Strange Horizons. The Truman Show meets helicopter parenting meets the labor market? Layered and bleak and really good.
A Stranger Goes Ashore, Adam R. Shannon, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Hoooly shit. This is like half an argument about climate collapse and space exploration and half Junji Ito.
Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self, Isabel J. Kim, Clarkesworld. Emigration and the divided self. An intriguing magical-realism premise well-executed.
All Worlds Left Behind, Iona Datt Sharma, khōréō. Wow, I loved this. My favorite portal fantasy I've read in awhile.
ETA:
Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias, Elly Bangs, Lightspeed. Utopia and escapism and change. This is a feelgood story but, you know what, I did feel good, and I liked it, and it's very nicely written. F/F.
Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station, Ann LeBlanc, Mermaids Monthly. An original and compelling take on time loops.
All Us Ghosts, B. Pladek, Strange Horizons. The Truman Show meets helicopter parenting meets the labor market? Layered and bleak and really good.
A Stranger Goes Ashore, Adam R. Shannon, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Hoooly shit. This is like half an argument about climate collapse and space exploration and half Junji Ito.
Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self, Isabel J. Kim, Clarkesworld. Emigration and the divided self. An intriguing magical-realism premise well-executed.
All Worlds Left Behind, Iona Datt Sharma, khōréō. Wow, I loved this. My favorite portal fantasy I've read in awhile.
ETA:
Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias, Elly Bangs, Lightspeed. Utopia and escapism and change. This is a feelgood story but, you know what, I did feel good, and I liked it, and it's very nicely written. F/F.
