THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE AND OTHER STORIES, ed. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin Solaris, 2017 eBook, 246pp The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories is an anthology of short fiction edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin. An editor and critic, Murad is also known for her fantastic weekly interview podcast on Tor.com, Midnight […]
GlitterShip is a regular speculative fiction podcast focusing on LGBTQIA+ fiction run by Keffy R. M. Kehrli. I’ve been into it from the get-go, sitting as it does at the nexus of my intersecting interests in queer culture, SFF, and audio media. In 2017 GlitterShip launches a new format: a quarterly magazine containing the fiction, […]
It’s January. I’m sitting on my sofa, swaddled in a blanket, fingers going white, watching the relentless news scroll by. I’m beginning to miss last year, when my news feed was only full of the deaths of beloved celebrities. This is my monthly collection of micro-reviews for all the short fiction, new and old, I […]
Late again, but I blame December. It’s always an intense month. Not to mention 2016’s last few kicks in the teeth. I would have integrated December’s list into this one for efficiency, but then we would have been here forever. Read on below the cut for my micro-reviews of the short fiction I read in November. […]
Look! It’s already halfway through March. But even despite the bonus day, February turned out distinctly lighter in short fiction than January. I’m not going to beat myself up about it though – I spent the month packing my life into a dozen boxes, then moving to a flat with (still!) no internet access. Because […]
Legend has it that Socrates said: ‘the unexamined life isn’t worth living’. Taking this dubious aphorism to heart, as was ever my wont, this past December I decided that the new year would be a good time to finally start logging my reading. I’m going to further break down the demographics of everything I read in another post, for now here’s […]