This next batch is from this month's (September 2015's) issue of Lightspeed magazine #64, edited by John Joseph Adams ( Read more... )

Because I missed ReadaThon yesterday for various personal reasons, I've decided to set myself a challenge today to read at least 24 short stories (one for each hour of the day), out of various online sources and in anthologies that have sat on my shelves un-opened for too long. Here are my thoughts on the fourth batch of three, with links to where ( Read more... )

Once again I have fallen behind on posting story reviews. Much earlier in the year this year! Instead of spacing these out over 19 individual entries, which will put me even farther behind, here are my thoughts (sometimes brief, sometimes less-so) on the stories in Not Our Kind: Tales of (Not) Belonging, edited by Nayad Monroe and published by ( Read more... )

From the February 2014 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine (on stands now ( Read more... )

And yet another months-overdue catch-up post:

BEYOND THE SUN, anthology edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt ( Read more... )

Here are three I read before I started proofreading next month's Lightspeed magazine. This doesn't quite catch me up, but it closes the gap:

46. THE CRACKER TRAP by Maurice Broaddus, from the Spring 2012 issue of Shroud magazine. When I had dinner with Maurice and his family in Indianapolis last year, he told me about this story's publication and ( Read more... )

When I was in Duncan Oklahoma last week for work, I chanced across a local chain bookstore, and in the magazine section I found a couple of magazines I'd never heard of before that had mostly, if not all, short stories.  So of course, out of the three which is the one I read first?  Right -- the genre (in this case, a mix of fantasy, horror and ( Read more... )