The Wicked + the Divine vol. 2 by Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen
We Stand on Guard #1 by Steve Skroce and Brian K. Vaughan
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Foulsham by Edward Carey
Last First Snow by Max Gladstone
Zeroes by Chuck Wendig

Notable Short Fiction
"The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne Valente
"The Midnight Hour" by Mary Robinette

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy
The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser
Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
Wonder Woman #1
Wonder Woman #5
Wonder Woman #6
Collected Fiction by Hannu Rajaniemi
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (plus squee on Rocket Talk)
Velvet vol. 2 by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting
The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché
Full Fathom Five by Max ( Read more... )

The first half of this month was given over to marking and course work; the second half was in Glasgow; but reading and writing happened all the same. Short fiction reading suffered, though.

Books:

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace (Lightspeed column, June)
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (Lightspeed ( Read more... )

Hardly any short fiction this month, as the reading schedule for courses and NPR reviews was a bit intense. Also not counting the reading of three short stories of 2500-7500 word length a week written by my students, and marking two courses' worth of assignments.

Books:

My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear by ( Read more... )

A stupendous amount of last-minute reading of novellas and novelettes for award nomination happened this month, but I'm not counting them because mostly the point of listing the short fiction is to help me around award season again next year, so I want to only list what's eligible and what I've enjoyed.

Books:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy ( Read more... )

Books

The Just City by Jo Walton
Ghost Signs by Sonya Taaffe
The Haunted Girl by Lisa Bradley
Elysium by Jennifer Brissett
The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord
The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton
Bogle Corbet by John Galt
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada by Anna Brownell Jameson (selections from, but it was most of it!)
You Must Set Forth at ( Read more... )