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Welcome citizens of Twitter to my big ol’ Short Story Recommended Reading thread! Writing an end-of-2020 list? Nominating for awards and catching up? Well I read pretty broadly and I have some recommendations.
Thread incoming!
Thread incoming!
Also if you like my work, a thread of my own 2020 publications is right here: https://twitter.com/Wiswell/status/1334178494473973763
This list is alphabetical. Ranking these stories would be preposterous.
And this thread is going to be long, so mute it if you hate literacy or whatever.
And this thread is going to be long, so mute it if you hate literacy or whatever.
“5:37” by A.P. Howell ( @APHowell ) at Translunar Travelers Lounge ( @TranslunarTL ) https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2020/08/15/537-by-a-p-howell/
“Across the Ice” by Ada Hoffman ( @xasymptote ) at Strange Horizons ( @strangehorizons ) http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/across-the-ice/
“After the Monster” by Marissa Lingen ( @MarissaLingen ) at Daily Science Fiction @DailySF http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/modern-fantasy/marissa-lingen/after-the-monster
“All the Turns of the Earth” by Matthew Claxton ( @ouranosaurus ) at Analog Magazine & Curious Fictions @Analog_SF @curiousfictions https://curiousfictions.com/stories/3481-matthew-claxton-all-the-turns-of-the-earth
“Amber” by Sandra M. Odell ( @WriterOdell ) at Daily Science Fiction @DailySF https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/virtual-reality/sandra-m-odell/amber
“Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse” by Rae Carson ( @raecarson ) at Uncanny Magazine @UncannyMagazine https://uncannymagazine.com/article/badass-moms-in-the-zombie-apocalypse/
“A Being Together Among Strangers” by Arkady Martine ( @arkadymartine ) at Uncanny Magazine @UncannyMagazine https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-being-together-amongst-strangers/
NOVELETTE: “Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super” by A.T. Greenblatt at Uncanny Magazine @UncannyMagazine https://uncannymagazine.com/article/burn-or-the-episodic-life-of-sam-wells-as-a-super/
I have a handful of novelettes to recommend. I'll mark them all clearly in their tweets.
“Caihong Juji” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ( @spireswriter ) at Robot Dinosaurs @robodinofiction https://robotdinosaurfiction.com/caihong-juji/
“A Complete Transcript of [REDACTED]’s Video Channel, In Order of Upload” by Rhiannon Rasmussen ( @charibdys ) at Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-68b-a-complete-transcript-of-redacteds-video-channel-in-order-of-upload-by-rhiannon-rasmussen/
"Dresses Like Elephants" by Meg Elison ( @megelison ) at Uncanny Magazine @UncannyMagazine https://uncannymagazine.com/article/dresses-like-white-elephants/
“The Eight-Thousanders” by Jason Sanford ( @jasonsanford ) in Asimov’s @Asimovs_SF
Alas this story isn't available for free online. If you're an Asimov's subscriber, it was in the September/October issue.
Alas this story isn't available for free online. If you're an Asimov's subscriber, it was in the September/October issue.
As @APHowell points out, Jason can hook you up with a free digital copy! https://twitter.com/jasonsanford/status/1331244967738675210
"Fight Some Crime, Or I'll Tell Mom" by Rachael K. Jones ( @RachaelKJones ) at Daily Science Fiction @DailySF https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/superhero/rachael-k-jones/fight-some-crime-or-ill-tell-mom
“Flashlight Man” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor ( @merc_wolfmoor ) at Nightmare Magazine @NightmareMag http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/flashlight-man/
“For Every Jack" by R.K. Duncan ( @RKDuncanAuthor ) at http://Tor.com @tordotcom https://www.tor.com/2020/08/26/for-every-jack-r-k-duncan/
“The Goatkeeper’s Harvest" by Tobi Ogundrian ( @tobi_thedreamer ) at The Dark @thedarkmagazine https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-goatkeepers-harvest/
“Halogen Nightmares” by Anatoly Belilovsky ( @loldoc ) in Nature Futures @NatureFutures https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02510-2
“Hearts in the Hard Ground” by G.V. Anderson ( @luna_luminarium ) at http://Tor.com @tordotcom https://www.tor.com/2020/09/09/hearts-in-the-hard-ground-g-v-anderson/
“A Hench Helps Her Villain, No Matter What” by Izzy Wasserstein ( @izzyxen ) at Escape Pod @escapepodcast https://escapepod.org/2020/02/13/escape-pod-719-a-hench-helps-her-villain-no-matter-what/
“How the Emperor of All Space and Every World Awoke to the True Nature of Reality and Why it Didn’t Matter” by P.H. Lee ( @P_H_Lee ) at Escape Pod @escapepodcast https://escapepod.org/2020/02/06/escape-pod-718-how-the-emperor-of-all-space-and-every-world/
