2024 online short SFF part 4
Mar. 5th, 2025 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraA last round of recs. After this I think I'm going to make separate posts to think about nominating novelettes and short stories, and then one for other categories.
The Best Version of Yourself, Grant Collier, Clarkesworld. A particularly unsettling Rapture-of-the-Nerds, and a woman's relationship with her mother. Novelette.
I'm Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe, Daryl Gregory, Reactor. I thought this had big Men In Black energy, although apparently Gregory meant it as an homage to Iain Banks, except it didn't have the ugly mean-spiritedness of the one of those I ever read, except I know many of my friends didn't find Banks so off-putting, so, IDK! YMMV! Novelette.
The Jaxicans' Authentic Reconstruction of Taco Tuesday #37, Stephen Granade, Strange Horizons. The concept of authenticity, and the weirdness of being expected to represent it.
Another Old Country, Nadia Radovich, Apparition Lit. The power of stories, and a high school student who just wants to go running. Thanks toelysdir for the rec!
The Goddess of Loneliness and Misfortune, Anna Bendiy, khōréō. A return to a war-torn homeland.
Flannelfeet, Ursula Whitcher, Frivolous Comma. A story about portal fantasies. I'm very fond of stories about people who are trying to be logical and practical when encountering the fantastical, and this is very satisfying.
The Best Version of Yourself, Grant Collier, Clarkesworld. A particularly unsettling Rapture-of-the-Nerds, and a woman's relationship with her mother. Novelette.
I'm Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe, Daryl Gregory, Reactor. I thought this had big Men In Black energy, although apparently Gregory meant it as an homage to Iain Banks, except it didn't have the ugly mean-spiritedness of the one of those I ever read, except I know many of my friends didn't find Banks so off-putting, so, IDK! YMMV! Novelette.
The Jaxicans' Authentic Reconstruction of Taco Tuesday #37, Stephen Granade, Strange Horizons. The concept of authenticity, and the weirdness of being expected to represent it.
Another Old Country, Nadia Radovich, Apparition Lit. The power of stories, and a high school student who just wants to go running. Thanks to
elysdir for the rec!The Goddess of Loneliness and Misfortune, Anna Bendiy, khōréō. A return to a war-torn homeland.
Flannelfeet, Ursula Whitcher, Frivolous Comma. A story about portal fantasies. I'm very fond of stories about people who are trying to be logical and practical when encountering the fantastical, and this is very satisfying.
