My Best 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories
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This is partially a testament to how prolific they are, but also does represent my fondness for them. Liu in particular comes to mind whenever someone asks me about favorite authors or for suggestions on what to read.
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012
I also really liked their stories. Plus, I like being able to see the growing expansion of the genre as I discover new gems. I will continue to read as much short fiction as possible in So more print mags are in my future. Hopefully that will happen this month. You can see all of the short stories I liked this year by surfing the tag on my blog or over on Delicious.
Glad you liked some of them, anyway, even if none made your top 19 for the whole year! I like those odds. Apex editor Lynne Thomas says that the magazine published 27 original stories and 13 reprints. Of the stories I favorited, 8 of them are originals and 1 is a reprint. Lightspeed published 48 original stories if this list of Hugo-eligible works is anything to go by and I liked 13 of them. By my rough count, Strange Horizons published 32 original stories and I liked 11 of them.
My Best Short Stories were all written with a purpose. One of these stories will resonate with you, which one? Spirit What happens when one?wakes. My Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories. Filesize: MB. Reviews. These kinds of ebook is the ideal book readily available. Better then never.
So, if you look at percentages, the magazines with original stories I like best are: Dunno why my data said otherwise. Possibly because I had the Yanez story accidentally marked as for a long time. I digest most of my short fiction as podcasts and am especially fond of both Clarkesworld and LightSpeed. I also like EscapePod as well for short audio fiction. Will be interesting to see what award season brings in Thanks much for sharing your list!
The Wisdom of Ants by Thoraiya Dyer Though this story is pure science fiction, it has a fantasy sensibility that I deeply love.
The rest I thought were just alright or less than average. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Intelligent map-making wasps expand their Empire and attempt to colonize the Bees. I love me some comeuppance. It is true that no one else had ever done anything like it before, to travel at such a distance, and at such speeds, and by such means.
Here again is that thing I like to read about: I love me some comeuppance. There are several layers of complexity here as he folds in colonialism, imperialism, and cultural death while addressing issues of sexism and even rape culture there are no on-screen rapes, though. Very finely crafted story.
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A lot of them were over-descriptive and very hard to get through with very little reward for doing so. Perhaps all the other stories are amazing, or at least down on a level I can appreciate. Maybe one day I'll pick it back up and find out. Nov 02, Amy rated it liked it. The stories I really liked were: All in all, interesting to see what was out there from the previous year.
May 26, Jacob rated it really liked it. Some stories were better than others, but overall, it's a solid read. I only skipped one: The Last Sophia, by C. The best of the bunch, in my opinion: May 13, Llewellyn rated it liked it. Some of these stories were great, some were downright awful, and some were pretty mediocre.
I thought the best of the bunch were: Sep 30, Richard rated it liked it. Two stories really stand out to me.
The rest wasn't that special. The rest I thought were just alright or less than average. Apr 06, Samantha rated it liked it.
Hugo Award for Best Short Story
Some really great stories here, some not so much. Without being negative and naming the poorer stories some from inexperienced authors who just haven't found their voice yet here are the highlights: Jul 23, Amy rated it liked it Shelves: I skimmed a few of these, and wasn't caught up. I got this for Valente's Fairyland 0. But all in all it didn't engage me like some other anthologies. Aug 27, Dan rated it really liked it.
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By and large well-curated. Some standouts are sub-par, one or two very sub-par, but this may have been a bad year for speculative fiction. Nonetheless I would encourage the editor to seriously consider whether stories about hipsters meeting vampires truthfully belong in any serious anthology. Nov 11, Chris Kasten rated it it was ok.
Odd mix of stories and styles. I didn't love the majority of them, but yet there were a few that were really great and a couple more that were enjoyable. There were also a bunch that I couldn't even finish. Apr 25, Jennles rated it it was ok. I love short stories but collections are usually a disappointment - will probably just stick to the magazines from now on. Jul 19, Richelle rated it it was ok.
There were a few good stories, but mostly by already established authors I already knew about. All the Myriad Ways Ballantine Books. New Dimensions 1 Doubleday. New Dimensions 2 Doubleday. Again, Dangerous Visions Doubleday. New Dimensions 3 Doubleday. The Alien Condition Ballantine Books. Stellar 1 Ballantine Books. New Dimensions 5 Doubleday. Stellar 2 Ballantine Books. Anticipations Faber and Faber. Robot Dreams Berkley Books.
What Might Have Been? Alternate Empires Bantam Spectra. Full Spectrum 4 Doubleday. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. A Wellsian Perspective ". Starlight 1 Tor Books. Tales from Earthsea Harcourt. Fragile Things William Morrow and Company. The New Space Opera Eos. Eclipse 2 Night Shade Books. Footprints Hadley Rille Books. The Future is Japanese Viz Media.
- Hunting Party (House of Wolves Book 1)
- HOOD-WINKED: Some historical accounts of the deception of man since the beginning of time.
- Spotted Hyenas: A Romance (a short story from The Atlantic) (From the Archives of The Atlantic)
- Worth The Room : An Autobiography of Survival and Service
- The Mayfair Moon (The Darkwoods Trilogy Book 1)
- Faerie Tales and Mystical Spells - Book 2 (A Series of Poetic Events)