Title: The Ink Readers of Doi Saket
Author: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Genre: Myth/fable, anecdote
This is the part of my 100 Short Stories in 2014 challenge. This story is one of the Hugo Nominated short stories and I am reading it in the voting pacet. I have decided to review everything I read for the Hugos.
I do not normally review stories that I do not like on the blog. I normally try to keep things positive, but because of it’s nomination I will review it.
Title: Chicks in Chainmail
Editor: Esther M. Friesner
Short story anthology
Genre: Humor, fantasy, portal fantasy, magic realism, feminism, fairytale, historical fantasy, fairytales, metafiction, mythology, high fantasy, epic fantasy,
I just got Chicks in Chainmail in the mail today, I ordered it after reading Tansy Rayner Roberts great post On Influence. I wanted to read some of the older works in the genre (this is 20 years old by now) so I decided to order it. I am reading the stories as part of my 100 Short Stories in 2014 challenge.
Don’t let the cover fool you, this is a feminist book, but it is is feminism with a big smile on it’s face and a wink. It is clever and it is funny.
Title: The Too-Clever Fox
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Genre: Fable
This is the part of my 100 Short Stories in 2014 challenge.
Title: Jackalope Wives
Author: Ursula Vernon
Genre: Fable, fantasy, myth
This is the part of my 100 Short Stories in 2014 challenge.
I have read Anasi Boys and I have read a little Sandman both by Neil Gaiman, Jackalope Wives puts me in mind of both. It reads very much like a myth of some pre-industrial people. Where or which isn’t ever clear, which I do not mind as it doesn’t matter to the story.