New story out today! Nature Futures is giving you Planet of the Five Rings. This was a Christmas present to my father, who is a deeply serious person, so you know that it will be a grim and somber read. If that’s not enough, there’s a story behind the story blog post where you can read more about it. Hope you enjoy!
Tag: short story glory
Blue Ribbon
Today’s reprint has particularly good timing! Lightspeed is running a story of mine that has never been available online before, Blue Ribbon. (It previously appeared in Analog and in Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction.) Why is this good timing?
Well, for non-Americans, it’s a story to enjoy on a Tuesday, okay, sure. For most Americans, it’ll be something to ease you back into your work week after the Labor Day holiday weekend. Who could argue with that kind of timing? I hope you enjoy it!
But for those of you who are missing your State Fair now that it’s over. For those of you who were 4H kids in particular. Yes, this is my story of 4H kids in space. It’s not the perky tale of “and then I won the prize, hurray!” that that thumbnail might suggest, but I’m pretty proud of it all the same. And the day after the State Fair seems like just the right time for it to be more broadly available for the first time.
Ice, icon, revolution
I have a new story out in Beneath Ceaseless Skies today! Across Pack Ice, a Fire. This one was inspired by a fragment of family story on my trip last year. Go, read, enjoy!
You know: the thing with stories I’ve liked lately
And maybe a poem or two or a hundred. And you can chime in, because even things from a particular magazine do not mean I’ve read all of that magazine.
What to Expect from the Large Hadron Collider as a college roommate, by Betsy Aoki (Uncanny)
Search History, by K. T. Bryski (Daily SF)
Junebug’s Magical Magnificent Mercurial Barbershop, by Malon Edwards (Fireside)
A Late Quintessence, by Justin Howe (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Packing, by T. Kingfisher (Uncanny)
elemental haiku by Mary Soon Lee
Red Bark and Ambergris, by Kate Marshall (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
The Stars That Fall, by Samantha Murray (Flash Fiction Online)
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM, by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex)
For Now, Sideways, by A. Merc Rustad (Diabolical Plots)
Stories I liked this time around
It’s time again for another batch of: short stories I liked since the last time I posted about some short stories! As always, this makes no pretense of being exhaustive. The appearance on this list of a story does not mean that I’ve read everything else a magazine puts out–so feel free to recommend your own favorites in the comments. Sharing around good stories is the entire point.
The Cold, Lonely Waters, by Aimee Ogden (Shimmer)
The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom, by Max Gladstone (Tor.com) (Is there a bonus for using “water” or “waters” in your title? Well. In your story, yes, so in your title, probably. Why be coy about this? Water. It’s a family thing.)
The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales, by Fei Dao (Clarkesworld) (Translated by Ken Liu)
Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus, by Bogi Takacs (Clarkesworld)
2067: Transcript of Found Audio Interview, by Adrienne Maree Brown (Riverwise)
A Burden Shared, by Jo Walton (Tor.com)
That Lingering Sweetness, by Tony Pi (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
They Will Take You From You, by Brandon O’Brien (Strange Horizons)
For your own safety and comfort
I have a story out in Nature today, Running Safety Tips for Humans. Go, read, enjoy! And when you’re done with that, they’ve asked me to do a blog post on the story behind the story.
Available in bookstores now or soon
I have a space salvage story, “Vulture’s Nest,” in the May/June 2017 issue of Analog. Go, read, enjoy!
The dhole didn’t fit in the title
I have a new story out today at Daily Science Fiction: Vervain, Grasshopper, Sun. Like all of DSF’s offerings, it’s quite short, so it won’t take you long to go, read, and enjoy!
Short stories I’ve liked: earliest 2017
As always, I make no pretense of having read everything–even everything in the magazines I’ve read some of–so this is not some kind of “top ranking” or “better than,” it’s just stuff I’ve read and liked. Feel free to recommend things you’ve read and liked in the comments.
The Compassion of the Pheasant Lord, Leena Likitalo (Lackington’s)
Her Hands Like Ice, KT Bryski (Bracken)
Prosthetic Daughter, Nin Harris (Clarkesworld)
Suddenwall, Sara Saab (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
With Cardamom I’ll Bind Their Lips, Beth Cato (Uncanny)
This is the Aesir-alien flash you were looking for.
Or maybe you weren’t looking, but–you’ve found it anyway! The Hand of Loki is out today in New Myths. Go, read, enjoy!