SH Flashback: “Valiant on the Wing,” by Chris Szego
As I noted last week, I've embarked on a weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. The format of this entry is the...
Archive for Short Stories
SH Flashback: “In the Cold,” by Kelly Jennings
During my twelve years as a fiction editor at Strange Horizons, we published over 500 stories. Now that I've been...
Who would’ve been on the Best Editor Hugo ballots?
Jim Hines posted yesterday about the Best Editor categories of the Hugo ballot. A friend asked who might've been on...
Good weekend
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
Fathers and stories: “Emerson’s Chevrolet”
I've written before about marvelous storyteller Willy Claflin. Today in the car his story “Emerson's Chevrolet” came up in my...
First-person plural, indeterminate
I've now encountered this interesting and unusual PoV in multiple works of fiction: The narration is in first-person plural. It...
Hugo rec: Six-Gun Snow White
The deadline for Hugo voting is the day after tomorrow, so I'd better finally post a couple of the things...
“Wakulla Springs”: sf or not?
A couple of friends have indicated that they're a little hesitant to vote for “Wakulla Springs” for a Hugo, on...
Susanfic
I hadn't realized there's a whole genre of Susan Pevensie fanfic. Here's one I just came across: “Between,” by genarti,...
Hugos 2014: Venues
Another unusual thing about this year's Hugo nominees is where the short fiction was published. As I noted last year,...
Hugo recommendations
I've been meaning for months to blog about specific works and people I'm going to nominate for the Hugos, and...
RIP, Lucius Shepard
I just learned that Lucius Shepard died two days ago. I haven't had much contact with him in a long...