by Philip Rafferty | Aug 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories
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 four previous works all...
by Julia Gaskill | Jul 26, 2017 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories, Sponsored
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 of Bugs Bunny and...
by Julia Gaskill | Jun 23, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Portland Publishers, Science Fiction, Short Stories
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 the title, feminist...
by Sarah Hutchins | Mar 24, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories
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 MacFarquhar. The opera captures...
by Galina Roizman | Feb 23, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Humor, Short Stories, Sponsored
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 called poems) of...
by Katie Richards | Jan 20, 2017 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, Short Stories
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 in choosing the...