Yoon Ha Lee’s Hexarchate Stories is a collection of short stories set in the universe of Lee’s Machineries of Empire series, and, more specifically, mostly revolving around the life of everyone’s favourite mad general, Shuos Jedao. And it’s just now hitting me that the series is really, truly over. A collection with many eyes Hexarchate […]
I don’t usually do non-review posts these days, but this one caught my eye and hooked me in. Plus it’s been a bank holiday weekend for us here in the UK, so I’ve had some time. This is an A-to-Z of book blogging questions that I nicked from Avery over at Red Rocket Panda, and […]
It’s somehow March 2017 already—time, as They Might Be Giants so accurately said, is marching on (and now I’m even older). But I just can’t quite let 2016 go until I’ve rounded up my most favourite short fiction published in it. So what follows is my favourite short fiction from 2016, with a link to the reviews […]
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. […]
My brain last month has been a dandelion clock, and every day is a gust of wind that scatters me on the breeze. Things I’ve been doing this month instead of writing this short fiction review post include: experimental cooking; laundry; day trips; playing Flight Rising; enduring computer meltdowns; installing Ubuntu; staring into space. But […]
The sun’s out and so are my legs, and it’s almost May—but nevertheless it’s time for my monthly collection of mini-reviews of all the short fiction I read last month. March’s short fiction intake is inflated by two factors: one was my twenty-two hours on buses on my way to and from Edinburgh. Story podcasts? […]