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Sunday Shorts is a weekly feature where I highlight and review one sci-fi/fantasy short story published online every Sunday. Why? I believe short stories are a great way to discover new authors. A great short story can move a reader in the same ways novels can.
Want to hear more about my love of short stories and why I think they are a great way to explore speculative fiction? Check out my guest post on Oh the Books!
Past Sunday Shorts:
- Polenth Blake - Never the Same
- Marie Brennan - Mad Maudlin
- Tobias Buckell - Toy Plane & The Found Girl
- John Chu - The Water That Falls From Nowhere
- A.M. Dellamonica - The Color of Paradox
- Ruthanna Emrys - The Litany of Earth
- S. L. Huang - Hunting Monsters
- Thomas Olde Heuvelt - The Ink Readers of Doi Saket
- Mary Robinette Kowal - The Lady Astronaut of Mars
- David D. Levine - Damage
- Ken Liu - Paper Menagerie
- Seana McGuire - Each to Each
- Foz Meadow - Ten Days' Grace
- Jennifer Pelland - Captive Girl
- Sarah Pinsker - No Lonely Seafarer
- John Scalzi - Unlocked
- Sofie Samatar - Selkie Stories are for Losers
- Rachel Swirsky - If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love
- Lavie Tidhar - Selfies
- Carrie Vaughn - The Best We Can
- Jo Walton - Sleeper
- LaShawn M Wanak - 21 Steps to Enlightenment (Minus One)
Have a suggestion for a short? Feel free to leave them in the comments below!
Last Updated: 20AUG2015
Great idea! Thanks for highlighting these stories - I'm going to explore them. Just reading your post about the spiral staircase one made me curious. I do like sci-fi and the weird ;).
ReplyDeleteThanks Roberta! :) I'm really enjoying finding and sharing new short stories. And it seems like authors can get away with more weird in a short story than you might find in a novel length format.
DeleteIf you like your sci-fi with weird + a little mythology, I really recommend Marie Brennan's Mad Maudlin. I reviewed it a few weeks back here: http://exploringworldsfiction.blogspot.com/2014/09/sunday-short-marie-brennans-mad-maudlin.html