2025 Online Short SFF Fiction - Post Two

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A few more recommendations. I have not done as much reading this year as I would have liked to but I'm running out of time, so, here's what I have.

Short stories:

Unbeaten, Grace Seybold, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Nice riff on "swords into plowshares" and "pen is mightier".

Last Meal Aboard the Awassa, Kev Coleman, Lightspeed. A doomed ship has a party. (This one from the Locus list.)

The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead, E.M. Linden, PodCastle. Migration and memory. (Nebula nominee.)

Six People to Revise You, J.R. Dawson, Uncanny. Letting other people fix you. (Nebula nominee.)

ETA: The Fate You Choose, Nadia Radovich, Apex. Atalanta choose-your-own-adventure.

Looped, Nadia Radovich, Heartlines Spec. A time loop, with knitting.

Five Things You Can See, Nadia Radovich, Strange Horizons. Future selves.

Novelette:

Barnacle, Kate Elliott, Reactor. NOVELETTE. Life in a company town.

ETA: The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Uncanny. NOVELETTE. A meta story about fantasy books and what they mean to people. (Nebula nominee.)


Novellas:

The Chronolithographer's Assistant, Suzanne Palmer, Asimov's. NOVELLA. A young man avoiding the sea becomes a printmaker. Palmer is always a good time.

Murder on the Eris Express, Beth Goder, Asimov's. NOVELLA. A spaceship AI and a mystery.