Final reminder - I’m a finalist in the Clarkesworld 2022 Reader Poll, in the novelette category, which closes TODAY.
You can vote here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/clarkesworld2022poll
The story I was nominated for is ‘Carapace’, which you can read and listen to here:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/goodman_07_22/
Reminder that the Clarkesworld Reader Poll closes on Wednesday this week and I’m a finalist in the novelette category! If you read and enjoyed my story ‘Carapace’, I’d be honoured to have your vote.
Poll link here - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/clarkesworld2022poll
and the story can be read or listened to for free here https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/goodman_07_22/
Interzone #294 is out in the world, and features my story about a revolutionary without a revolution: "Last Act of the Revolution".
Purchase/Subscriptions: https://interzone.press/iz-294/
Special Digital Edition: https://scarletferret.com/magazines/interzone/294
Weightless Books: https://weightlessbooks.com/interzone-294/
And if you get a subscription, or a Special Edition, you also get access to IZ Digital, wherein can be found my story "Witch Hunt"!
A thought-provoking read - Utopia and rebellion, enforced growth vs self direction - in today’s short fiction read rec:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ogden_11_22/
#Bradbury1000 #ShortFiction #ShortStories #ShortFictionRecs #SFFShorts #Scifi
#GigaNotoSaurus January story
Old Seeds
by Owen Leddy
https://giganotosaurus.org/2023/01/01/old-seeds/
#ShortStory #ShortFiction #SpeculativeFiction #FreeFiction #SFF #SF #ExoBiology #SciFi #SFFshorts
When the ship restarts my newly thawed brain, the first thing I do is panic. I open my eyes and see the star-spattered void, and I pinwheel and tumble, trying to swim in microgravity like an idiot. I drift out of the open lid of the stasis bed, dizzy and nauseated. I finally manage to […]
A rocking military sci-fi to kick off 2023’s short read recs.
A sentient AI mech taking a prisoner of war back through its own hostile lines. Long but with a zippy quest narrative, interesting layers of hostile terrain and a solid ending.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/goodman_07_22/
#Bradbury1000 #ShortFiction #ShortStories #ShortFoctionRecs #SFFShorts #Scifi
Today’s the last day for the BSFA long list. If you enjoyed my novelette Patterns in Stone and Stars in GigaNotoSaurus, please consider adding it to the list.
https://giganotosaurus.org/2022/12/01/patterns-in-stone-and-stars/
#sffshorts #sff2022
Szkazy forced her attention back to the candle, the flame weak and flickering in the breeze from the ship’s air duct. Somewhere in the computer bowels, the clock was ticking away her allotted minutes for kindling an open flame. She’d had the dispensation renewed last month—and yet it still felt as if the ship itself […]
Last short read rec of 2022 is Eugenia Triantafyllou’s great story about ancestors, bones and war in the latest issue of The Deadlands:
https://thedeadlands.com/issue-20/harvest/
#Bradbury1000 #ShortFiction #Shortstories #SFFshorts #ShortFictionRecs
Parenting roles, intergenerational trauma and competing cultural ideas abound in today’s short fiction rec:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chand_03_22/
#Bradbury1000 #ShortFiction #ShortStories #ShortFictionRecs #SFFShorts
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor’s first collection “So You Want to Be. A Robot?” was one of my fave reads if this year. Each story was energetic, vibrant and full of characterful heart. This story of theirs about an unconventional saving of the world is a great example:
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-heaven-that-they-never-knew/
#Bradbury1000 #ShortFiction #ShortStories #ShortFictionRecs #SFFShorts
Ginger clings to the skin of Heaven, wrapped in deep, cold vacuum. She’s a speck in the void and her breath trembles inside her helmet. No sound in space. So she breathes. She has to stay grounded, keep her thoughts from shaking and drifting to hostile sensors. Heaven’s skin is a smooth, shimmering membrane enclosing the angelships. Heaven: a bubble the size of a small moon, seeded with egg-like metallic beings that chew and swallow and reap. Locusts with a taste for spirits; nothing holy in those devourers.
David Goodman
Louise Hughes
KieraLesley
Edgard Wentz
M V Melcer
