The short: I finally read the most recent collection by Theodora Goss, “Letters from an Imaginary Country“, 2025 Tachyon Publications. It includes a great Introduction by Jo Walton, sixteen works of short speculative fiction (it leans more to fantasy and horror but with a bit of SF), and Story...
The Short: I finally read The Best of Kage Baker, 2012 Subterranean Press, no editor listed. It’s twenty stories, and comes in at 501 pages. This is a great collection by an author we lost way too soon, and a great way to get more familiar with her short fiction. My favorite story included is...
The Short: I love the Lydia Duluth stories by Eleanor Arnason, although they have not been collected yet. Lydia Duluth is a location scout for an interstellar movie company; interesting things happen to her. My favorite is the first, the superlative Hugo Award runner-up and Nebula Award nomination...