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Opera Vita Aeterna

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opera_256Title: Opera Vita Aeterna
Author: Vox Day
Genre: Fantasy

This is part of my Hugo award reading. It was nominated as a part of the best Novelette category. This is the part of my 100 Short Stories in 2014 challenge.

This is a fantasy story set in a world with elves, goblins and humans. However the religion seems to be catholicism, or as close to it as you can get without naming it. This is important because the story is very much about religion. It takes place in a monastery where an elf spend many years.

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The Elephant in the Room

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The elephant in the roomTitle: The Elephant in the Room
Author: Paul Cornell 
Genre: Urban fantasy

This is the part of my 100 Short Stories in 2014 challenge.

This story is part of George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards multi-author shared-world universe , which I have never encountered before, but which I now want to read more off. I tried to read London Falling  by Paul Cornell last year without luck – to my annoyance it didn’t catch me. I say to my annoyance because I really like Paul Cornell on SF Squeecast and I want to like the writing of the internet people I follow. So I am very happy that I really like The Elephant in the Room.

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Day 18, story 18: Special Economics

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cw_86_300Title: Special Economics
Author: Maureen F. McHugh
Published: clarkesworldmagazine.com 2013, first published in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Genre: Science fiction, near future
Length: 10989 words, novelette
Reading time: 1 hour and 12 min

I read this as part of my reading challenge: 25 short stories in 25 days.

First off this did not feel like science fiction at all. It just felt like fiction. The only science fictional bit about it was biocomputers. But can really only make it near future.

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Day 4, story 4: Tensegrity

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18680662Title: Tensegrity
Author: 
Published: 2013 by Audible Frontiers
Collection: METAtropolis: Green Space
Genre: Science fiction, near future
Length: Novelette
Listing time: 110 min (just under 2 hours)

I read this as part of my reading challenge: 25 short stories in 25 days.

I have been listening to this over the last few hours and I have decided that this will be my story for the 28th because it is too good, not to give a separate post and I did finish it after midnight so I guess that is fair. That of course means that I will have to read a novel today, or at least not include any new stories I read in the challenge.

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Day 3, story 3: Midway relics and dying breeds

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18680662Title: Midway relics and dying breeds
Author: 
Published: 2013 by Audible Frontiers
Collection: METAtropolis: Green Space
Genre: Science fiction, near future
Length: Novelette
Listing time: 95 min

I read this as part of my reading challenge: 25 short stories in 25 days.

Today I listed to a story instead of reading one. I started reading one, but fell asleep – not the stories fault I was just tired. So I decided to listen to the next story in Metatropolis since I wanted to hear McGuire’s story anyway. That also eat my Seanan McGuire story for this challenge. Which is probably not a bad thing either.

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