Nominating for the Nebula awards? Or just looking for a #scienceFiction story about #cyborg/#AI found families? I released the free full text of my Analog #shortStory "For Every Bee, a Hive" last week!
Since my memory is failing and Google isn't any better, I'm going to #askFedi for some #fediHelp finding the title and author of a #SciFi#ShortStory featuring a #timeLoop: “they” suddenly appear wish spaceships on the edges of the Solar System and with no warning wipe out the outer colonies. Earth quickly sets up a space navy to face the unknown enemy, but as the enemy approaches Earth it stops fighting and is easily defeated.
Last-min reading for Nebulas? "Discreet Services Offered for Women Ridden by Hags" by Stephanie Malia Morris made Locus's Reading List.
"She had never written to tell us where she had gone or that she was married. What kind of person did this, unless they were ashamed of their kin? But what reason had she to be ashamed? So she was passing light; so our parents had been enslaved before Emancipation. These were not reasons. These were excuses."
Years ago one of my dear friends (who is a huge bookworm) and I were talking. She told me she hated short stories. I can’t remember why or if she even told me a reason. This conversation has stuck with me, because I struggle with them- why? I have no idea. I have tried different tactics to overcome this. I am s l o w l y reading one now, but I don’t gravitate toward it (not the one pictured, but it’s one I really want to read if I can ever get there).
@Likewise@bookstodon you might try the Selected Shorts podcast. It's introduced me to lots of great short fiction. Typically there are 2-3 stories in under an hour.
Just stumbled across this December 2010 edition of Chess Life (which I'd never seen before).
It has a review by two-time US Women's Champion Jennifer Shahade of the chess fiction anthology MASTERS OF TECHNIQUE to which I contributed. She has some very nice things to say!
Check this interview with her in Vanity Fair about the TV series QUEEN'S GAMBIT:
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My sword and sorcery story, The Red God, is the lead story in this month's Savage Realms Monthly. My first story in the genre that was established by the great Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian!).
Robert Louis Stevenson’s #shortstory “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) #OTD, 8 Feb 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in #Samoan translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)
If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html#freeread#shortstory#funny#pleaseboost
The crowd cheered as the speaker for the keynote appeared on stage.
"We have some groundbreaking innovation to show you today", the speaker begins as they look up to the audience with a proud and confident smile.
Inspiring music starts to play, the staging lights are panning to the audience - all those faces lighting up in excitement as they are anticipating the next big innovation.
As the camera zooms out, one sees the bright letters:
Climate & Humanities Conference
What happened to Brittany Watts never should have happened in the first place. Now we need to make sure it never happens again -- nobody should be criminalized for how their pregnancy ends. We have multiple ways for you to take action right now. https://indivisible.org/resource/demand-justice-brittany-watts