Tag Archives: Short Stories

Voting in the Hugos 2020

Posted on 25/07/2020 by Roseanna

Weirdly, the first year I actually vote in the Hugos, I haven’t actually read all the novels. Pandemic has had a weird effect on my reading habits. But still, I read all the short fiction and nearly all the graphic … Continue reading →

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Exhalation – Ted Chiang

Posted on 16/12/2019 by Roseanna

I adored Stories of Your Life and Others. And it wasn’t just because Story of Your Life is both brilliant and perfectly designed to appeal to me (although that is true). I felt a connection or a sympathy or a fascination for several … Continue reading →

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The Mythic Dream – edited by Dominik Parisien, Navah Wolfe

Posted on 05/11/2019 by Roseanna

It’s been aaages since I read a short story collection, but what better way to draw me back than a bunch of authors I think are great writing their takes on myths? I mean, how better were you going to … Continue reading →

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Bloodchild – Octavia E. Butler

Posted on 18/03/2017 by Roseanna

So we made an enormous thread of SFF discussion on FB last night… which mainly led to me seeing a huge pile more books I need to read (like my list wasn’t long enough). However, one of them was free … Continue reading →

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Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang

Posted on 30/12/2016 by Roseanna

I’m not normally a fan of collections of short stories, though I’m not entirely sure why. Even ones by authors I rather like, I tend to be a bit meh on. But we went to see the film Arrival as a … Continue reading →

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