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Christmas Magic edited by David G. Hartwell

Christmas Magic edited by David G. Hartwell

by P.J. Sun | Dec 23, 2016 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Science Fiction, Short Stories

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, to the future and a...
Waiting for the Cyclone: Stories by Leesa Dean

Waiting for the Cyclone: Stories by Leesa Dean

by Stephen Febick | Dec 9, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories

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 places further away, and...
The Water Museum by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Water Museum by Luis Alberto Urrea

by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Oct 13, 2016 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Back Bay Books Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] From the very beginning of this short story collection, the reader...
Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser, translated by Tom Whalen, Nicole Kongeter, and Annette Wiesner

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser, translated by Tom Whalen, Nicole Kongeter, and Annette Wiesner

by Kenyon Ellefson | Sep 23, 2016 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: NYRB Classics Formats: Paperback, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories consists of scores of delightful and lyrical vignettes (or sketches, as...
The Bed Moved: Stories by Rebecca Schiff

The Bed Moved: Stories by Rebecca Schiff

by Julia Gaskill | Sep 12, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Humor, Short Stories

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Knopf Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] The Bed Moved: Stories by Rebecca Schiff is a collection of twenty-three short stories focusing on...

Dead Letters Anthology edited by Conrad Williams

by Jon Sanetel | Jul 19, 2016 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Titan Books Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] “When you sell people a dream, he thought, they don’t want to know how the dream works.” Sometimes...
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