Because of my enjoyment of last year’s challenge 100 Short Stories in 2014 I decided to do the same challenge this year. Learning from last year I decided to set up the stats post right away, so I don’t have to go back halfway through the year and catalog 50 stories. This is one of those post that is mostly for my own amusement, but if you want to take a look, you are very welcome. I will link to my reviews of the stories so hopefully it can serve as an inspiration list as well.
What have I read?
I will link to the reviews in the list but you can see all the reviews here. If a story is from a collection or a magazine I will most likely have all the reviews of that collection in one post and I will just link to that.
- “Migration” by Kat Howard in Uncanny #1, reviewed
- “Anyone With a Care for Their Image” by Richard Bowes in Uncanny #2, reviewed
- “A Lie You Give, and Thus I Take” by Damien Angelica Walters in Lightspeed Magazine, reviewed
- “Making the Cut” by H.E. Roulo in Women Destroy Fantasy
- “The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History” by Sam J. Miller in Uncanny #2
- “Love Letters to Things Lost and Gained” by Sunny Morain in Uncanny #2
- “The Nalendar” by Ann Leckie in Uncanny #2, reviewed
- “The Dryad’s Shoe” by T. Kingfisher in Women Destroy Fantasy, reviewed
- “Nine Goblins” by T. Kingfisher, reviewed
- “Toad Words” by T. Kingfisher in Toad Words and Other Stories, reviewed
- “The Wolf and the Woodman” by T. Kingfisher in Toad Words and Other Stories, reviewed
- “Pocosin” by Ursula Vernon aka T. Kingfisher in Apex Magazine #68
- “Anarchic Hand” by Andy Dudak in Apex Magazine #68
- “Pockets” by Amal El-Mohtar in Uncanny #2 , reviewed
- “John Dillinger and the Blind Magician” by Allison M. Dickson in Apex Magazine #68
- “Bluebeard’s wife” by T. Kingfisher in Toad Words and Other Stories
- “Loathly” by T. Kingfisher in Toad Words and Other Stories
- “The Sea Witch Sets the Record Straight” by T. Kingfisher in Toad Words and Other Stories
- “Lost” by T. Kingfisher in Toad Words and Other Stories
- “Drowning in Sky” by Julia August in Women Destroy Fantasy
- “Miss Carstairs and the Merman” by Delia Sherman in Women Destroy Fantasy, reviewed
- “Boar and apples” by T. Kingfisher in Toad Words and Other Stories
- “In the Loop” by Ken Liu in War Stories – Tiny review
- “Hunden, der elskede agurker” by Peter Seeberg
- “Translatio Corporis” by Kat Howard in Uncanny #3
- “When the Circus Lights Down” by Sarah Pinsker in Uncanny #3 – tiny review
- “Ghost girl” by Richard Scott Larson in War Stories
- “The Radio” by Susan Jane Bigelow – tiny review
- “Quiet Town” by Jason Gurley in Lightspeed Magazine – tiny review
- “How to always reap a harvest” by Yoon Ha Lee in Upgraded – tiny review
- “A Cold Heart” by Tobias S. Buckell in Upgraded – tiny review
- “The Wasp Keepers” by Mark Jacobsen in War Stories – tiny review
- “Mrs. Griffin Prepares to Commit Suicide Tonight” by A Que in – tiny review
- “Melioration” by E. Saxey in Lightspped Magazine – Queers Destroy Science Fiction – tiny review
- “The Myth of Rain” by Seanan McGuire in Lightspeed #60 – review
- “Prise De Fer” by Ellen Kushner in Games Creatures Play – review
- “Gratuitous Epilogue” by Andrea K. Höst
- “No Sooner Met” by Seanan McGuire – tiny review
- “We Both Go Down Together” by Seanan McGuire
- “Blocked” by Seanan McGuire
- “Oil of Angels” by Chen Qiufan in Upgraded
- “Ghost Champagne” by Charlie Jane Anders in Uncanny magazine #5 – tiny review
- “Down on the Farm” by Charles Stross
- “What I’ve Seen With Your Eyes” by Jason K. Chapman in Upgraded
- “Midnight Hour” by Mary Robinette Kowal in Uncanny magazine #5 – tiny review
- “No Place to Dream, but a Place to Die” by Elizabeth Bear in Upgraded – tiny review
- “Sideswiped” by Kim Harrison – tiny review
- “Pirate Songs” by Nicolette Barischoff in Accessing the Future – tiny review
- “Pay Attention” by Sarah Pinsker in Accessing the Future – tiny review
- “Invisible People” by Margaret Killjoy in Accessing the Future – tiny review
- “Find a Way Home” by Poul Cornell in Uncanny magazine #6
- “The Lessons of the Moon” by Joyce Chng in Accessing the Future
- “Wooden Feathers” by Ursula Vernon in Uncanny magazine #7 – tiny review
- “Tremontaine: Arrivals” by Ellen Kushner – Tremontaine #1
- “The North Side of the Sun” by Alaya Dawn Johnson – Tremontaine #2
- “Heavenly Bodies” by Joel Derfner – Tremontaine #3
- “A Wake in Riverside” by Malinda Lo – Tremontaine #4
- “The Dagger and the Sword” by Alaya Dawn Johnson – Tremontaine #5
- “A Fair Hand” by by Patty Bryant – Tremontaine #6
Stats
I am a bit of a stats junkie so I am keeping track of a number of thing on each story. Here are the numbers.
Length
Note: I use the Hugo Award category lengths as my guideline when categorizing the short fiction I read.
Flash fiction: 1-1000 words. Short story: 1000-7,500 words (5-20 pages). Novelette: 7,500-17,500 words (20-50 pages). Novella: 17,500-40,000 (50-145 pages). 1 page is about 350 words.
Publishing year
Who have I been reading
New faces: Richard Bowes, H.E. Roulo, Sam J. Miller, Andy Dudak, Allison M. Dickson, Julia August, Delia Sherman, Peter Seeberg, Sarah Pinsker, Richard Scott Larson, Susan Jane Bigelow, Jason Gurley, Mark Jacobsen, A Que, Ellen Kushner, Andrea K. Höst, E. Saxey, Jason K. Chapma, Nicolette Barischoff, Margaret Killjoy, Joel Derfner, Malinda Lo, Patty Bryant
People I read before: Kat Howard, Damien Angelica Walters, Ann Leckie, T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon, Amal El-Mohtar, Ken Liu, Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, Mary Robinette Kowal, Charles Stross, Elizabeth Bear, Yoon Ha Lee, Tobias Buckell, Poul Cornell, Ellen Kushner
Author gender
Author residence
Protagonist gender
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