SH Flashback: “Origin,” by Ari Goelman
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Origin,” by Ari Goelman A human superheroine who's dating an alien superhero discovers...
Archive for Short Stories
SH Flashback: “Greetings from Kampala,” by Angela Ambroz
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Greetings from Kampala,” by Angela Ambroz During an interstellar war between Hindustani and...
SH Flashback: “Start with Color,” by Bill Kte’pi
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Start with Color,” by Bill Kte'pi In a world where everyone's dreams come...
More multimedia speculative fiction from Jon Bois
Jon Bois's tour-de-force multimedia science fiction future-of-football extravaganza “17776” is now complete. 25 brief chapters. Well worth reading/viewing, even for...
My year in books
In 2016, I read 172 books; an average of roughly one every two days. Well, okay, when I say “read,”...
Arrival
Kam and I saw the movie Arrival on Sunday evening. It was as good as everyone's been saying. I had...
England Swings SF, Judith Merril, and the New Wave
I'm finally reading Judith Merril's groundbreaking 1968 anthology England Swings SF. Here are some thoughts. i probably ought to...
Gender balance in some old anthologies
Interim report on my father's sf anthologies: 25 sf anthologies recorded in my spreadsheet so far, published from 1953 through...
Reading update
Yesterday, I finished the anthology I'd been reading and skimming for the past few days: Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction...
Bettyann
So I've been halfheartedly reading/skimming all this old science fiction, and I started in on Raymond J. Healy's 1951 anthology...
“How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?”
I'm reading Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year from 1972, and most of the stories in it, although...
SH Flashback: “The Red Bride,” by Samantha Henderson
A new entry in my almost-weekly-again Strange Horizons retrospective: “The Red Bride,” by Samantha Henderson A bedtime story told to...