The Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 stands out from the many other science fiction and fantasy short story anthologies, not just because the Nebula Awards are the best of the best in genre fiction, but because each anthology is slightly different. [...]
Set between China and The US over a thirty-year period, My Old Faithful tells the story of one Chinese family and their growth over ten interconnected stories. Author Yang Huang’s debut novel, Living Treasures, told the story of two young lovers [...]
The twelve stories that comprise Laurie Ann Doyle’s debut short story collection World Gone Missing are a relatable expression of Baby Boomers’ experiences. Characters are often in their late 40s or 50s navigating memories transposed with today. [...]
The story of Alice in Wonderland is one that has captivated the imaginations of children and adults for years. Both fanciful and dark, the original story weaves a tale that cannot be forgotten and has inspired countless films, books, and even [...]
We’ve All Been There, an anthology put together by Elisabeth Ashlin and several others, is a collection created and inspired by the National Novel Writing Month. Writers from around the world were given the theme “going back or returning” with a [...]
Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero: 9 Stories begins and ends with the two strongest short pieces, which both examine heterosexual marriage from a male perspective. The husbands, willing but almost passive participants, marvel at the changes that overcome [...]
The World To Come is Jim Shepard’s latest collection of short stories that are all epic historical pieces that perform unimaginable feats of storytelling in the small space of a short story. The book is the latest from the author, whose [...]
Chimera is a collection of four short stories and one novelette, all written by Julian Mihdi. These stories focus on both the benign and the extraordinary. One story, “Follow the Scroll”, has its protagonist chatting with the likes [...]
There’s no question as to what the book Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories In Extreme Futures is about. It serves as a collection of short stories, focused around the concept of a tumultuous future with, as one might glean from [...]
Alexander Pushkin’s great-great-great-granddaughter, Englishwoman Marita Phillips, wrote an opera – Pushkin: Poet and Czar – that just debuted in Moscow on February 4, 2017, according to The New York Times article by Neil [...]
If you like Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” A Boy from the Chesapeake, by Larry Roszkowiak, is a book for you. This is a wonderful collection of short stories. It consists of a little more than 30 pieces (part of them could be [...]
This Way to the End Times is exactly what the title advertises, a nice, thick collection of science fiction and speculative stories about the end of the world. Robert Silverberg, himself an award winning science fiction writer, has a deft touch [...]
Christmas Magic, edited by David G. Hartwell, is a reprint of a 1994 anthology. This compilation of twenty-eight stories revolves around a Christmas theme. The various authors send the reader on a journey from the past, with its earthly ghosts, [...]
The cyclone in Leesa Dean’s Waiting For The Cyclone is many things. It is a figurative disruption, chaos for its characters, yet it also a way of life. Her collection of thirteen stories picks up its characters on a whim and ends them in [...]
From the very beginning of this short story collection, the reader knows they will be going on a journey through a strange, yet somehow familiar, landscape, and that author Urrea is the right guide to take you there. The first story, “Mountains [...]
Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories consists of scores of delightful and lyrical vignettes (or sketches, as Walser himself would call them) of Swiss life in the early twentieth century, ranging from youthful country life to a more ruthless [...]
The Bed Moved: Stories by Rebecca Schiff is a collection of twenty-three short stories focusing on relationships, family, sex, and death. The stories all vary in length, the longest being thirteen pages and the shortest only a mere half a page. [...]
“When you sell people a dream, he thought, they don’t want to know how the dream works.” Sometimes lifting the veil back from the lesser known and unseen parts of our world offers an escape in to other realities. This is true for Dead Letters as [...]
“They’ve already made waking life a dream and the dreamers into a mushy mass-mind where everyone shares the same dream of being the only one who matters.” Sixteen tales with a Lovecraftian focus explore the otherworldly in bizarre and wonderful [...]
The best moments in Richard Platz’s Vanishing Point come when our characters are in their quiet moments. If there is a vanishing point for them – or end of the world – it comes through their isolation and moments of solitude that [...]
