Last year I decided to make a specific effort to read award-eligible short fiction, and tell people about the short stories I like. The second half of the plan was executed without too much bother - I have diligently updated my list on Diigo, and periodically remind people that said list exists. But working through the first half of the plan was ( Read more... )

I read quite a bit of SF&F short fiction. Not as much as I'd like, of course, but I could say that about everything pleasant in life. But I don't tend to tell people about the short fiction I have enjoyed. I do recommend, and occasionally just hand people, novels that I love. But for some reason it never occurs to me to let people know about the ( Read more... )

There's only a week left until the Hugo Nomination window closes! I am frantically leaping from story to story in an attempt to stuff my brain full of every potentially-awesome piece of speculative fiction published in 2014. In case anyone else is similarly frozen by decision paralysis, below are some of my favourite free-to-read-online Hugo- ( Read more... )