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Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

October 3, 2025February 9, 2025

The Fifth Science – Exurb1a

A YouTuber branched out into fiction. How well will this go?

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Science-Fiction, Short Stories  1 Comment

June 13, 2025March 15, 2025

The State of the Art – Iain M. Banks

A short story collection with one novella from the Culture series

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February 23, 2024January 20, 2024

Two More Short Story Collections

Two more collections of short stories, reviewed by a person who doesn’t really like short stories.

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November 3, 2023May 11, 2023

Children of the New World – Alexander Weinstein

Oh look, a short story collection I really liked.

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July 23, 2021March 24, 2021

The Doors of His Face, The Lamp of His Mouth – Roger Zelazny

A highly acclaimed book of short stories.

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Evolution, Fiction, Novel, Science, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

May 28, 2021January 20, 2021

Evolution – Stephen Baxter

If the sentence “Baxter did a Stapeldon” makes sense to you, you will enjoy this review.

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Fiction, Horror, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  1 Comment

February 5, 2021November 29, 2020

The King in Yellow – Robert W. Chambers

Reading this made me realize that my brain just won’t register horror in any normal way.

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Alternate History, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  2 Comments

July 17, 2020July 2, 2020

Pavane – Keith Roberts

This might be the most well-written book I disliked reading.

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March 29, 2019December 5, 2018

I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream – Harlan Ellison

Even if one doesn’t particularly like short stories, one cannot help but admit that Harlan was a master of the craft.

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Comics, Feminism, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories, Super Heroes  0 Comments

December 21, 2018September 15, 2018

The Refrigerator Monologues – Catherynne M Valente

Did you ever think that there was something missing from a story only to realize that someone part of the narrative has been left out? That’s what this book is about.

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