The Shadow of the Gods • 2022 • Epic Fantasy novel by John Gwynne

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Synopsis: It is 300 years after the twilight of the gods, when the gods killed each other. Their tainted children, all those who have the blood of the gods within them, life as thralls in the Norse land of Vigrið. 

The story follows three warriors: Varg is a former thrall who seeks revenge for the murder of his sister, if only he knew them. He is about to find a new home among a group of mercenaries called the Bloodsworn. Orka is a mother and a warrior on a mission to find her kidnapped son and take vengeance. Elvar seeks battle-fame and an undying name among another group of mercenaries, the Battle-Grim, who hunt trolls and other tainted because they give good money.

“You are Berak Bjornasson, and the blood of the dead god Berser
flows in your veins. You are Tainted, you are Berserkir, and you are
wanted by three jarls for murder, blood-debt and weregild. And
now you are mine,” Agnar said, and smiled. “You will fetch a fine
price.”

All three have some mystery in their past which unfolds only late in the story.

Review: Shadow of the Gods starts a new series, The Bloodsworn Saga, by John Gwynne. I haven’t read anything yet by this prolific author, but it shows that this isn’t his first novel. One can literally feel how much Gwynne, a Viking re-enactor, loves the Nordic way of living with all its mythology.

He sprinkles his love with a lot of world-building, stuffed with Islandic terms and sentences. You’ll find blóð svarið, a blood oath, or nålbinding caps, and other terms similarly like the typical Nordic trope of blood eagles. The only negative thing I can say about strange terms is Gwynne’s notion of “thought-cage” for the mind – he uses it so often, 70 times in summary, and each time it drew me out of the immersion.

Magic goes through runes and Icelandic sentences: 

Blóð drekans, lík rífa, voldugur, sameina og binda, brenna þessa hindrun,
opna leið fyrir herra okkar

The reader doesn’t need to know the meaning (though my ebook reader readily translates them on the fly), but they let you immerse yourself in this world just like all the well-chosen names do. Those battle descriptions with shield-walls, stabbing spears, wounds, shouts will suck you in and provides a sense of reality opposing the otherwise clear Fantasy setting.

It’s not exactly our mediaeval Viking world. The gods of Vigrið were real there, magic is happening right now, and their god-blood gives the Tainted advantages in battle that others can only dream of. It is an original world, mixing elements from Bernard Cornwell’s Last Kingdom series (including “arselings”), and Viking’s Lagertha and Ragnar Lothbrok plus a lot of magic and gods. A world which is as beautiful as cold, and Gwynne invites you to live within its snowy landscapes.

Gwynne takes his sweet time setting up the novel. Not that there aren’t enough fights, sense-of-wonder, or suspense in the first half. But the story doesn’t clarify, where all is heading to, why there are three characters, and what they have to do with each other. While this might sound slow, it isn’t: the story sucked me in and kept me on my toes from start to finish. Towards the end I pushed through in a marathon read, because I couldn’t put it down anymore.

All three main characters are interesting, and well-motivated. Some readers will prefer Orka as a tough mother, and the only one fighting for her own instead of being part of a warband. Elvar’s story is slower in the first half and really takes speed in the second half. For me, it was Varg and his way into the Bloodsworn mercenaries. Both groups of mercenaries have secondary characters which are fully fleshed out and have interesting stories of their own right. They remember me of Glen Cook’s Black Company. Yes, it’s a harsh and dark world, full of murder, aggression and fighting.

I’m very looking forward to the second book in the Bloodsworn saga, The Hunger of Gods, which is about to appear this April. 

Highly recommended for fans of darker, epic fantasy with multiple point of views, full of scary monsters, magic, and gods. 

Meta: GoodReads. Published in the UK at 27.01.2022 by Little, Brown Book Group 

Quantum of Nightmares • 2022 • Urban Fantasy novel by Charles Stross

⭐⭐

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Synopsis: Quantum of Nightmares is the sequel to Dead Lies Dreaming, set in an alternate London in the Laundry Files universe, but with a fresh start of characters and topics.

The book takes up exactly at the point where it left Dead Lies Dreaming: Eve Starkey sent her boss Rupert into oblivion. Now she’s in charge of the company. Searching through a secret stash she finds out that her boss has set up lethal magical and physical traps for her. He wants to get back from literal hell through some occult ritual involving human sacrifices. The order’s base where such a ritual will be conducted is located on one of the smaller Channel Islands modelled after Sark. Rupert bought the island and profits from its feudal governance with mediaeval laws. She gets help from her brother and his heist gang, the “Lost Boys”, just like in the first novel.

There is also Wendy Deere who investigates a London-based supermarket chain. They are testing bleeding-edge technology, robots automatically boning livestock and feeding the meat into a 3D printer which produces customer-specific meat products.

Eventually they plan to have vats full of animal tissue culture in every branch, feeding it to 3D printers on the deli counter – meat products without animal cruelty and the risk of another Mad Cow Disease epidemic.

Just wait for those mincemeat golems (no, that’s no joke) called “meat puppets” to replace the expensive human workforce!

A third plot line involves Mary, stepping in as a nanny for the children of two superheroes who are about to leave for some super-urgent mission abroad. Now, that one isn’t a cute Poppins at all, but she has the mission to kidnap the kids. If only the children wouldn’t have powers of their own, the job would be far easier.

The little girl’s face was buried against the side of her neck like an infant vampire, but her quivering shoulders signaled manipulative sobbing rather than sanguinary suckling.

Review: Stross kept the comical style from the first novel, but strengthened the horror aspect by a multitude. When it was light horror in the predecessor, it includes absolute disgusting details up to projectile vomiting here. You have a sensitive stomach? Do yourself a favor and don’t dive into this novel’s guts and bloods. The synopsis’s hint of meat production should be enough to figure out what I’m talking about. If you get any Sweeney Todd vibes, that’s totally intentional!

There are a lot of funny situations and dialogues where I had to laugh out loud. They just couldn’t counter the super bad feelings I’ve got from the nauseating descriptions.

Usually, when I soldier through such revolting parts and make it past the halfway-through mark, I continue to the end. This novel had a special, extremely uncomforting and disgusting sentence at around 75% for me:

Remember, work sets you free!

If anyone of you doesn’t recognize this idiom, let me tell you that it’s a Nazi slogan “Arbeit macht frei” at the entrance of concentration camps.

This crossed a red line. Coming out of nowhere, without context, this idiom isn’t funny at all, and I consider it unacceptable to include it that way. 

I could barely go on. 

Mind you, the novel has its qualities. It’s a fast page-turner, a superhero thriller with Cthulhu vibes, just like the first volume. But Stross turned up the volume of all the elements I hate, especially of horror and disgust factor. If you like those and you’re not especially sensitive about holocaust, then you will like this book.

Meta: GoodReads. UK Publication at 13.01.2022 by Little, Brown Book Group UK.

A Practical Guide to Conquering the World • 2022 • Military Fantasy novel by K.J. Parker

★★★☆☆

Synopsis: We follow the improbable quest of translator Felix, on his way from suddenly being the last of all Robur (read: Byzantines) at the court of the Echmen (read: Chinese) emperor, savior of the barbarian people called Hus (read: Mongolians), founding a new religion, becoming a prophet, to conquering the empire of the Echmen and then of the rest of the world. 

Felix inadvertently saves a young princess of the Hus from being executed by the Echmen by pointing out a translation error. 

The Echmen are extremely focused on paperwork and procedures, and when they find out that the Robur people have been extinguished (as described in the previous two volumes of this trilogy), there is no need for a Robur embassy anymore. Felix’s boss and colleagues are killed and only he is spared, because he’s adopted by the Hus out of gratefulness. That’s how he became entangled with their fate. 

The next step is that the Echmen want to build a huge Wall (read: the Chinese Wall) at their border, and they need people for doing the job. It’s only logical that they slaughter the Hus leadership and enslave the Hus people. This leaves the princess as the queen. Felix has to rescue her once again out of the palace. 

One might think, that all this rescuing sets up the two for a big romance. But the author has different plans for Felix. First of all, he isn’t up to the task of romancing around anymore, caused by reasons which led to his exile at the Echmen court. Secondly, the princess is one hell of a young adult. 

Review: This is the third book in the Siege trilogy, which started with Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, where snarky and nerdy Orhan rescued the Robur city from invasion, followed by How To Rule An Empire and Get Away With It featuring professional liar Notkar playing the game of “Sudden Emperor”. 

I wouldn’t recommend reading this novel as a standalone, because there are several tight references especially at the end of this book to the other two. Also, and this is already a summary of this book, I enjoyed the first novel far better than this one.

In general, the story has the author’s trademark elements. A snarky, funny first person protagonist stumbling through one difficulty after the other on his implausible crazy journey. The quasi-mediaeval world, almost but not exactly resembling our own. No magic at all. A fast flowing plot with lots of funny moments. In contrast to the other two novels, this one isn’t bounded with a close environment like the walls of the City, but opens up to the whole world. Yes, you will have armies shuffling around in strategical and tactical movements, battlefield tricks playing out, and you will get to know several different kinds of people, including the Swiss. 

A lot of these battles and tricks are references to history, and neither Felix nor the author shy away:

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, plagiarism is practically a declaration of love.

While this standard recipe usually works very well for me, I had several issues this time, lessening my reading experience:

• I didn’t like the main protagonist like I loved Orhan from book one. Where Orhan was a petty criminal turned capable savior, Felix is far too often a self-centric, blithering, unsympathetic person. I could very well feel with sidekick talking to Felix: “I’ve met some real arseholes in my time […] but you’re something else, you know that? You’re so full of shit I don’t knwo how you live with yourself.”
• at the start of each chapter, there always was a longer excursion from the main plot, often with some info dump. I found my mind wandering which is always a bad sign, before jumping back to the story. To cite Felix commenting about himself: “it’s like they say in medicine, the dose makes the poison. Unfortunately, I come with the story. You want one, you’re goint to have to put up the other.“
• Felix’s story and the overall story of the Robur didn’t come to a final conclusion, and the ending was a letdown for me. 

I also understand that there are reviewers who had issues how Parker addressed and embedded PoC in his three books. If you’re sensitive, you might want to avoid this book.

Those were minor issues, and overall I liked the book, just not in the way of the first two, and I would still recommend it. If you’ve read the first two, you won’t want to miss this concluding book, anyway. It was good for many giggles with its deadpan humor, and it’s a really fast-paced read.

Meta: GoodReads. Published at 13.01.2022 by Little, Brown Book Group 

The Player of Games • 1988 • Space Opera novel by Iain M. Banks

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

First Sentence: 

This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh”. The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game.
Me? I’ll tell you about me later.

Seriously, the author loves to play games with the reader 🙂

Synopsis: The story follows Culture citizen Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a famous player of board games. He’s bored with his life on his home Orbital, and just parties around with his human and drone friends. 

One of his drone friends, Mawhrin-Skel, manages to blackmail Gurgeh into accepting an offer from Culture’s secrect police called “Special Circumstances (SC)”. They want him to participate in a very complex game called “Azad”.

This game isn’t played in the political sphere of the Culture, but in a far-away Empire of Azad, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The game Azad is the basis for the Empire, players win political status and social ranks through it, and the Emperor himself is the one player winning the game. The players define their philosophy and political targets by playing it.

Now, SC has kept contact to the Empire secret for some 70 years, but they see now the chance to introduce one of their citizens as a player in the tournament which will once again find the next Emperor.  

Gurgeh learns to play the game on his two years journey to the Empire’s home planet Eä. He’s accompanied only by one diplomatic drone Flere-Imsaho.

Gurgeh more or less flies through the qualifications which is already a shock for the Empire. They thought that he would loose his first match already. Along the way, Gurgeh learns about the highly oppressive nature of the Empire, and several other dark and cruel aspects like snuff channels for the high society, life torturing of prisoners and similar atrocities.

He’s matched against ever more capable and important opponents, and there are attempts on his life and other blackmailing actions. Nevertheless, he participates in the final rounds on a different planet Echronedal, the “Fire Planet” which has an everlasting firewall going around the planet’s circular continent. 

Review: Just recently, I’ve read the first Culture novel from Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (review), and I really liked it. It’s very similar with Player of Games, not because it’s the same thing in different colours, but because it’s very different.

First of all, it feels more like an extended novella than a typical representative of the Space Opera subgenre. Compare it’s 300 pages to some other huge doorstoppers (looking at you, Mr Reynolds!), and you know what I mean.

Throughout the whole novel, I couldn’t identify with the one defining core element of the narration: the game Azad, which is an extrapolation of chess. I simply don’t believe that future games, culture-defining games would be board games. Of course, Banks hadn’t got any The Last of Us, World of Warcraft, or similar video games at the time of writing. But still, there were team-oriented role playing games around, and in the one case where Gurgeh participated in one of the first person shooter simulations, he disregarded them as uninteresting. Also, the “facing opponents” part works out very differently in our COVID-19 world. Even the pen&paper RPGs happen remotely these days. In those regards, the novel doesn’t feel fresh or relevant, it’s got a nostalgic touch. Which I liked, mind you, and I was easily able to ignore my second thoughts about them during the reading experience.  

The novel once again focuses on a single protagonist in tight third person. It doesn’t have sidekick protagonists to speak of. Yes, there are the friends of Gurgeh, especially several named drones exposing interesting personalities, but none of them steal Gurgeh’s show. Mind you, they aren’t pale or uninteresting, quite the contrary, but still, they don’t take much screen-time to be noteworthy. It’s really a one-man show. 

I can already hear the outcry “oh, that’s soooo last millenium to have an entitled white man dominating the show”. Well, it isn’t, because Gurgeh is a PoC, which causes him a lot of resentment from the racist Azad people. And also, all those Culture people constantly change their gender on a whim. I guess, everyone of the Culture is a transgender. Which, again, is considered highly offensive at the homophobic Azad.

Banks makes a decided statement about sexuality in this novel – I didn’t like that one too much, because it was too heavy-handed for my taste, and too obvious, too easy.

This is already one of the core features of this novel, differentiating it from others:

• It’s clearly structured with chapters orienting on the tournament just like a sports story.
• It doesn’t have multiple points of view (with some very minor exceptions)
• It doesn’t jump around in time (contrasting for example Use of Weapons, the third in the series)
• It has a single main protagonist Gurgeh who isn’t highly relatable but very interesting to read about
• It has several very clear philosophical statements about racism, sexism, torture, and free will. 

For my taste, it’s lacking a certain finesse and is clearly dedicated for ease of accessibility to a broader reading public. 

I really like the unobstructed flow through the novel, and could easily rush through it, just like the first Culture novel. That is a quality I often call “unputdownable” which hit me in only three reading sessions.  

As a side-note, the mysterious figure from the “first sentence” was very easily identifiable, as was the general plot line and the question “what would Culture’s AIs achieve with involving Gurgeh”. 

In summary, I loved how Banks made a statement how he write a very easy novel which doesn’t lack statements about our own society. It’s not a masterpiece but solid craft and well worth your reading time. Highly recommended!

Meta: GoodReads.  

Level up! 1000 blog posts

As a RPG gamer, I always think that the first few levels are intentionally easy, but having past the first ten level ups, things get more difficult.

• Level 1: set up the blog
• Level 2: Publishing the first review
• Level 3: Getting the first views from readers through search engines
• Level 4: Publish 5 reviews
• Level 5: Publish 20 reviews
• Level 6: every day a hit – constant traffic
• Level 7: first follower
• Level 8: Publish 50 reviews
• Level 9: 5 views daily
• Level 10: Publish a guest review
• Level 11: Schedule a review
• Level 12: Attract a pingback
• Level 13: 50 ARC Reviews
• Level 14: 500 Likes
• Level 15: 600 Posts
• Level 16: 1000 Likes
• Level 17: One is fine, two is better
• Level 18: Be elite
• Level 19: Reblogged
• Level 20: 100 Followers
• Level 21: 750 posts
• Level 22: Reblog a post
• Level 23: 100 ARCs
• Level 24: 100 daily views
• Level 25: 900 posts
• Level 26: ARC-free
• Level 27: Level up! 1000 read books
• Level 28: 150 followers
• Level 29: 100k views
• Level 30: 1000 blog posts

The One-thousandth blog post!

To celebrate it, I’ve written a review for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Gondolin. I also invested a couple of hours producing two new overview posts for all reviews on this blog:

• list of short story reviews
• list of book reviews

That was a huge mess of work, because WordPress doesn’t have a good system for meta data, like “publication date” or “author last name”. Luckily, most of these relevant information were in my review titles, and I only had to develop an algorithm in Excel to carve out the fields after having it exported. I learned a lot that way!

1000 blog posts is a huge number. Let me elaborate it:

Nearly all of the posts – 937 – are reviews. I don’t post much fluff (like this fun level-up posts), it is really dedicated to reviews. 

• 686 story reviews (short stories, noveletts, and novellas)
• 159 novel reviews
• 72 anthologies and collection reviews
• 20 non-fiction book reviews

I began this blog in 2014 after realizing that GoodReads doesn’t handle short story reviews nicely. The first problem was that reviews are restricted in size. That’s usually no problem, but for larger collections where I wanted to write one review for every story, it became a burden. The next issue was that GoodReads policy is to delete entries which aren’t books. Moderators often enough deleted short story reviews together with their entry. That’s when I decided to search for a safe spot for short story reviews.

Nearly at the same time, I started requesting ARCs from NetGalley, and this blog came in handy for writing reviews also for novels. 

Up to this time, GoodReads was my main site for writing novel reviews. 

Then, a reviewing slump hit me between 2017 and the end of 2019. 

Since 2020, this blog is my main site for reviews. 

All My Reviews for Books

You can find reviews for the first 1000 posts collected on this page. Reviews for stories are on a separate page.

• 159 novels
• 20 non-fiction books
• 72 anthologies and collections

This blog doesn’t cover all the books I’ve read, nor all the books I’ve reviewed.
It started in 2014 as a center for short story reviews for a couple of anthologies, because GoodReads couldn’t handle those, and moderators often enough deleted them. At the same time, I started requesting ARCs from NetGalley, and this blog came in handy for the mandatory reviews. I had a reviewing slump starting in 2017 up to 2019 and wrote only very few posts at all in those years.
Starting in 2020, I switched to this blog as the main source for reviews of all sorts.

Novels

Title with Link to Review	Author(s)	Publication Year	Genre and Category	Blog Post Date
Die Flüsse von London	Ben Aaronovitch	2011	Urban Fantasy	22.08.2020
The Goblin Emperor	Katherine Addison	2014	Gaslight Fantasy novel	29.04.2015
The Witness for the Dead	Katherine Addison	2021	Gaslight Fantasy novel	22.07.2021
Finches of Mars	Brian W. Aldiss	2015	SF novel	01.05.2015
Gridlinked	Neal Asher	2001	Space Opera novel	06.10.2021
The Water Knife	Paolo Bacigalupi	2015	CliFi novel	24.01.2016
Consider Phlebas	Iain M. Banks	1987	Space Opera novel	12.12.2021
Call of the Bone Ships (Tide Child #2)	RJ Barker	2020	High Fantasy novel	27.11.2020
A Caller’s Game	J.D. Barker	2021	Thriller	22.02.2021
The Last Unicorn, Two Hearts	Peter S. Beagle	1968	Fantasy novel and novelette	09.03.2021
The Unfinished Land	Greg Bear	2021	Fantasy novel	15.02.2021
The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester	1951	SF novel	07.05.2015
The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester	1953	SF novel	23.10.2021
I’m Waiting for You And Other Stories	Kim Bo-Young	2021	Collection	06.04.2021
Driftwood	Marie Brennan	2020	Fantasy novel	14.08.2020
Red Rising: Das dunkle Zeitalter – Teil 1	Pierce Brown	2019	SF Roman	02.05.2020
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within	Becky Chambers	2021	Space Opera	18.02.2021
Record of a Spaceborn Few	Becky Chambers	2018	Space Opera novel	02.01.2021
Downbelow Station	C.J. Cherryh	1981	Space Opera novel	04.10.2021
Cyteen #1-3	C.J. Cherryh	1989	Space Opera novel	05.10.2021
Black Water Sister	Zen Cho	2021	Urban Fantasy novel	10.06.2021
The Walking Dead – Taifun	Wesley Chu	2021	post-apokalyptischer Thriller-Roman	11.03.2021
The Three-Body Problem	Liu Cixin	2014	SF novel	29.04.2015
A Master of Djinn	Phenderson Djèlí Clark	2021	Steampunk novella	19.08.2021
The City and the Stars	Arthur C. Clarke	1956	SF novel	12.03.2015
Rendezvous With Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	1973	SF novel	11.05.2015
Piranesi	Susanna Clarke	2020	Speculative fiction novel	04.10.2020
Engine Summer	John Crowley	1979	Post-post apocalyptic novel	04.12.2021
Babel-17	Samuel Delany	1966	SF novel	07.05.2015
The Einstein Intersection	Samuel R. Delany	1967	SF Novel	22.01.2021
The Man in the High Castle	Philip K. Dick	1962	SF novel	01.06.2015
Ubik	Philip K. Dick	1969	SF novel	01.06.2015
Attack Surface	Cory Doctorow	2020	Near Future SF novel	01.10.2020
All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr	2014	Historical Fiction novel	28.10.2021
How to Mars	David Ebenbach	2021	Planetary Romance novel	25.05.2021
The Hair Carpet Weavers	Andreas Eschbach	1995	SF novel	06.08.2020
Eines Menschen Flügel	Andreas Eschbach	2020	Science Fantasy Roman	30.09.2020
How to They/Them	Stuart Getty	2020	Non-fiction novel	29.09.2020
Neuromancer	William Gibson	1984	Cyberpunk novel	28.12.2020
The Peripheral	William Gibson	2014	Time Travel novel	16.01.2021
Agency	William Gibson	2020	Cyberpunk/Zeitreise-Roman	21.01.2021
The Conductors	Nicole Glover	2021	Urban Fantasy novel	05.03.2021
Trafalgar	Angélica Gorodischer	1979	SF novel	04.08.2020
Ammonite	Nicola Griffith	1992	Planetary Romance	02.04.2021
Hild	Nicola Griffith	2013	Historical Fiction novel	11.09.2021
The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	1975	SF novel	17.05.2015
The Midnight Library	Matt Haig	2020	Magical Realism Novel	05.09.2021
The Forever War	Joe Haldeman	1975	SF novel	07.05.2015
The Once and Future Witches	Alix E. Harrow	2020	Fantasy novel	15.10.2020
The Door into Summer	Robert A. Heinlein	1956	SF novel	03.01.2016
Starship Troopers	Robert A. Heinlein	1959	Military SF novel	16.10.2021
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress	Robert A. Heinlein	1966	SF novel	01.06.2015
Dune	Frank Herbert	1965	SF novel	11.07.2020
Dune	Frank Herbert	1965	SF novel	11.07.2020
Dune Messiah	Frank Herbert	1969	SF novel	23.08.2020
Im Dienst der Föderation	Tanya Huff	2000	Military SF Roman	14.09.2020
The Story of the Stone	Barry Hughart	1988	Fantasy Novel	04.09.2021
Steinerner Himmel	N.K. Jemisin	2020	High Fantasy Roman	01.07.2020
The Fifth Season	N.K. Jemisin	2015	Fantasy novel	20.02.2016
The Vanished Birds	Simon Jimenez	2020	SF novel	11.08.2020
Forever Sea	Joshua Phillip Johnson	2021	High Fantasy novel	19.01.2021
The Wheel of Time 1: The Eye of the World	Robert Jordan	1990	Fantasy Novel	31.03.2021
The Wheel of Time 2: The Great Hunt	Robert Jordan	1990	Fantasy Novel	19.06.2021
The Wheel of Time 3: The Dragon Reborn	Robert Jordan	1991	Fantasy Novel	29.08.2021
The Wheel of Time 4: The Shadow Rising	Robert Jordan	1992	Fantasy Novel	30.10.2021
Die Krieger der Altaii	Robert Jordan	2020	High Fantasy Roman	26.03.2020
The Summer Tree	Guy Gavriel Kay	1984	Fantasy novel	04.03.2021
The Space Merchants	Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth	1952	SF novel	11.05.2015
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1)	Mary Robinette Kowal	2018	Alternate History novel	20.09.2021
The House of Styx	Derek Künsken	2020	SF novel	16.05.2020
Schattenkämpfer	Mark Lawrence	2019	Fantasy novel	19.06.2020
Ancillary Justice	Anne Leckie	2013	Space Opera novel	12.10.2021
Phoenix Extravagant	Yoon Ha Lee	2020	Steampunk Fantasy	31.05.2020
The Grace of Kings	Ken Liu	2015	Epic Fantasy novel	25.10.2015
Der Name aller Dinge	Jenn Lyons	2019	Fantasy Roman	09.01.2021
Beyond the Hallowed Sky	Ken MacLeod	2021	Space Opera novel	26.11.2021
The Velocity of Revolution	Marshall Ryan Maresca	2021	Dieselpunk novel	09.02.2021
The Kingdom of Liars	Nick Martell	2020	High Fantasy novel	07.06.2020
The Two-Faced Queen	Nick Martell	2021	Fantasy novel	25.03.2021
The Thief on the Winged Horse	Kate Mascarenhas	2020	Fantasy novel	26.11.2020
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson	1954	Horror novel	07.05.2015
Winter’s Orbit	Everina Maxwell	2021	Sci-Fi novel	02.02.2021
Four Hundred Billion Stars	Paul McAuley	1988	Planetary Romance novel SF	26.09.2021
The Quiet War	Paul McAuley	2008	SF novel	31.03.2017
Star Trek Picard – Die letzte und einzige Hoffnung	Una McCormack	2020	SF	27.02.2020
Dreamsnake	Vonda N. McIntyre	1978	SF novel	01.09.2015
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld	Patricia A. McKillip	1974	Fantasy novel	05.12.2021
Dream of Distant Shores	Patricia A. McKillip	2016	Fantasy Collection	25.03.2016
Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurty	1985	Western novel	15.11.2020
Dragons & Mythical Creatures	Gerrie McCall, Chris McNab	2020	Fantasy picture book	14.05.2020
The City & the City	China Miéville	2009	Fantasy novel	14.10.2021
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller	1959	SF novel	01.06.2015
Circe	Madeline Miller	2018	Mythological Fiction novel	30.09.2021
Quantum Shadows	L.E. Modesitt Jr.	2020	SF novel	09.05.2020
Gallowglass	S.J. Morden	2020	Space Opera	10.12.2020
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August	Claire North	2014	Time Travel novel	04.09.2020
Sweet Harmony	Claire North	2020	Near Future SF novella	22.09.2020
Noor	Nnedi Okorafor	2021	Cyberpunk Africanfuturism novel	16.11.2021
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City	K.J. Parker	2019	Fantasy novel	18.08.2020
How To Rule An Empire and Get Away With It	K.J. Parker	2020	Fantasy novel	20.08.2020
Schwarzer Dolch: Chroniken der Seelenfänger 1	Alexey Pehov	2016	Fantasy	16.05.2016
The Ninth Metal	Benjamin Percy	2021	SF Western novel	01.06.2021
We are Satellites	Sarah Pinsker	2021	Near Future SF novel	01.05.2021
Gateway	Frederik Pohl	1977	SF novel	06.04.2015
Gateway (Heechee Saga #1)	Frederik Pohl	1977	Space Opera novel	08.03.2021
2084 – Eine Zeitreise durch den Klimawandel	James Lawrence Powell	2020	Dystopischer Roman	30.09.2020
The Fractured Void	Tim Pratt	2020	Space Opera novel	03.11.2020
The Prestige	Christopher Priest	1995	SF Fantasy Horror novel	12.04.2021
Der goldene Kompass	Philip Pullman	1995	Sci-Fi Novel	04.06.2021
Der goldene Kompass	Philip Pullman	1995	Sci-Fi Novel	04.06.2021
The Remoras	Robert Reed	1994	Transhuman SF novelette	28.09.2021
Marrow	Robert Reed	2000	BDO SF novel	27.09.2021
Vampire State Building	Ange, Patrick Renault	2020	Vampire Graphic Novel	11.06.2020
Inhibitor Phase	Alastair Reynolds	2021	Space Opera novel	26.08.2021
Black Sun	Rebecca Roanhorse	2020	High Fantasy novel	04.04.2021
Antarctica	Kim Stanley Robinson	1997	CliFi novel	24.05.2020
Galileo’s Dream	Kim Stanley Robinson	2009	Time travel novel	23.12.2020
Aurora	Kim Stanley Robinson	2015	SF novel	16.08.2015
Green Earth	Kim Stanley Robinson	2015	CliFi novel	18.09.2021
New York 2140	Kim Stanley Robinson	2017	CliFi novel	19.09.2021
The Ministry for the Future	Kim Stanley Robinson	2020	CliFi novel	08.10.2020
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J.K. Rowling	1998	Urban Fantasy Novel	30.05.2021
Dark One	Brandon Sanderson	2021	Fantasy Graphic Novel	18.05.2021
The Tower of Fools	Andrzej Sapkowski	1994 (engl. 2020)	Historical fantasy novel	26.10.2020
The Collapsing Empire	John Scalzi	2017	Space Operetta	02.04.2017
The Dispatcher	John Scalzi	2017	novella	09.04.2017
Krieg der Klone – die Trilogie	John Scalzi	2020	SF Omnibus	04.07.2020
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue	V.E. Schwab	2020	Fantasy novel	06.10.2020
The Priory of the Orange Tree	Samantha Shannon	2019	High Fantasy novel	07.02.2021
Hyperion	Dan Simmons	1989	SF novel	07.06.2015
The Vela	Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, SL Huang, and Rivers Solomon	2019	Space Opera	25.08.2020
Sorrowland	Rivers Solomon	2021	Superhero novel	06.05.2021
Seveneves	Neal Stephenson	2015	SF novel	31.01.2016
The Bone Shard Daughter	Andrea Stewart	2020	Fantasy novel	10.09.2020
The Bone Shard Emperor	Andrea Stewart	2021	Romantasy novel	25.11.2021
Dead Lies Dreaming	Charles Stross	2020	Urban Fantasy novel	29.10.2020
Fearless	Allen Stroud	2020	Space Opera	20.03.2020
The Binge Watcher’s Guide to the Harry Potter Films	Cecilia Tan	2020	Non-fiction novel	14.06.2020
Children of Time	Adrian Tchaikovsky	2015	SF novel	20.06.2015
The Doors of Eden	Adrian Tchaikovsky	2020	SF novel	11.02.2020
Shards of Earth	Adrian Tchaikovsky	2021	Space Opera novel	27.05.2021
Grass	Sheri S. Tepper	1989	SF novel	01.06.2015
Mockingbird	Walter Tevis	1980	Dystopian novel	15.06.2021
Rosewater	Tade Thompson	2018 (deutsch 2020)	First Contact SF Roman	22.11.2020
Central Station	Lavie Tidhar	2015	Posthumanity SF novel	07.02.2016
Annihilation	Jeff VanderMeer	2014	SF novel	29.04.2015
The Snow Queen	Joan D. Vinge	1980	Science Fantasy novel	15.10.2021
Savage Legion	Matt Wallace	2020	Military Fantasy novel	21.07.2020
Among Others	Jo Walton	2011	Fantasy novel	13.10.2021
The Sword of Kaigen	M.L. Wang	2018	Fantasy novel	04.01.2021
Artemis	Andy Weir	2017	Hard SF novel	05.08.2017
Project Hail Mary	Andy Weir	2021	Space Opera novel	09.06.2021
Ashes of the Sun	Django Wexler	2020	High Fantasy novel	21.07.2020
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sing	Kate Wilhelm	1976	SF novel	17.05.2015
Brothers of the Wind	Tad Williams	2021	High Fantasy novel	02.11.2021
Doomsday Book	Connie Willies	1992	SF novel	24.10.2021
The Fifth Head of Cerberus	Gene Wolfe	1972	SF novel	07.06.2015
Peace	Gene Wolfe	1975	Literary novel	17.02.2020
Doorways in the Sand	Roger Zelazny	1975	SF novel	11.04.2016

Non-Fiction books

Non-fiction books are not sorted.

Title with Link to Review	Author(s)	Publication Year	Genre and Category	Blog Post Date
Tolkien at Exeter College	John Garth	2014	Non-fiction biography	08.02.2016
A Beauty arrived today: The Art of Horizon Zero Dawn	Paul Davies	2017	Art book	13.06.2020
The Sirens of Mars	Sarah Stewart Johnson	2020	Non-fiction book	20.07.2020
Im Kernschatten des Mondes – Die unbekannten Heldinnen der NASA	Margot Lee Shetterly	2020	Non fiction book	25.07.2020
Ancient Egypt [Visual Explorer Guide]	Peter Mavrikis	2020	Non fiction book	16.09.2020
Wonders of the World	Claudia Martin	2020	Non fiction book	13.09.2020
Licht im Dunkeln – Schwarze Löcher, das Universum und wir	Heino Falcke	2020	Non fiction book	24.10.2020
Dreams of El Dorado – A History of the American West	H. W. Brands	2020	History Book	04.11.2020
The Art of NASA – The Illustrations That Sold the Missions	Piers Bizony	2020	Art Book	16.11.2020
Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030	Catherine Tubb & Tony Seba	2020	Non-fiction book	11.02.2021
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control	Stuart Russel	2019	Non-fiction book	23.02.2021
The Real J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man who created Middle-Earth	Jesse Xander	2021	Non-fiction book	27.02.2021
William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture	Mitch R. Murray & Mathias Nilges	2021	Non-fiction essay anthology	15.03.2021
Final Report of the National Security Commission on AI	Eric Schmidt, Robert Work	2021	Non-fiction book	19.03.2021
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies	Nick Bostrom	2014	Non-fiction book	26.03.2021
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster	Bill Gates	2021	Non-fiction book	28.03.2021
For Cats Only / Nur für Katzen	Pascale Weber	2021	Novelty Book	16.07.2021
The Art of Sushi	Franckie Alarcon	2021	Graphic Documentary	14.12.2021
The Art and Soul of Dune	Tanya Lapointe	2021	Graphic Documentary	01.01.2022
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth	John Garth	2003	Biography	04.01.2022

Anthologies and Collections

Anthologies and Collections are sorted by publication year.

Title with Link to Review	Author(s)	Publication Year	Genre and Category	Blog Post Date
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories	Roger Zelazny	1971	SF story collection	19.10.2014
Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home	James Tiptree Jr	1973	Collection	05.08.2020
Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods	Harlan Ellison	1975	collection	27.05.2015
Burning Chrome	William Gibson	1986	Cyberpunk collection	13.03.2021
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever	James Tiptree, Jr.	1990	SF Collection	08.11.2015
Bloodchild and Other Stories	Octavia E. Butler	1995	Collection	19.09.2015
Stories of Your Life and Others	Ted Chiang	2002	Collection	17.04.2020
The Dog Said Bow-Wow	Michael Swanwick	2007	Collection	13.08.2014
The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels	Gardner Dozois	2007	SF anthology	06.11.2021
The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction	Gene Wolfe	2009	Collection	22.08.2015
Edge of Infinity	Jonathan Strahan	2012	SF anthology	10.05.2015
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection	Gardner R. Dozois	2013	SF Anthology	23.07.2014
Twelve Tomorrows 2013	MIT Technology Review	2013	SF story anthology	15.12.2014
Unfettered	Shawn Speakman	2013	Fantasy story anthology edited	15.03.2015
Twelve Tomorrows 2014	MIT Technology Review	2014	SF story anthology	30.01.2015
Rogues	George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois	2014	mixed genre anthology	01.05.2015
2014 Nebula Awards Announced: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2014		07.06.2015
Neverland’s Library	Roger Bellini	2014	Fantasy anthology	11.09.2020
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine	Jonathan Strahan	2015	SF&F anthology	18.03.2015
Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction	Hannu Rajaniemi	2015	SF story anthology	20.03.2015
The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy 2015	Rich Horton	2015	SF&F anthology	03.06.2015
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection	Gardner R. Dozois	2015	SF Anthology	11.10.2015
A Fantasy Medley 3	Yanni Kuznia	2015	Fantasy story anthology	25.11.2015
Meeting Infinity	Jonathan Strahan	2015	SF anthology	26.12.2015
2015 Hugo Nominees: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2015		26.04.2016
2015 Nebula Winners Announced: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2015		15.05.2016
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction	Gardner Dozois	2015	SF anthology	13.04.2020
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories	Ken Liu	2016	Collection	04.03.2016
Dream of Distant Shores	Patricia A. McKillip	2016	Fantasy Collection	25.03.2016
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten	Jonathan Strahan	2016	SF&F anthology	22.02.2017
2016 Locus Recommended Reading List		2016		15.03.2017
2016 Nebula Winners Announced: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2016		25.05.2017
The Big Book of SF	Ann and Jeff Vandermeer	2016	SF Anthology	18.09.2021
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection	Gardner R. Dozois	2017	SF Anthology	11.03.2017
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven	Jonathan Strahan	2017	SF&F anthology	25.03.2017
The Best of Subterranean	William Schafer	2017	SF&F anthology	18.06.2017
The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy 2017	Rich Horton	2017	SF&F anthology	21.06.2017
The New Voices of Fantasy	Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman	2017	Fantasy anthology	25.06.2017
Exhalation	Ted Chiang	2019	Collection	26.04.2020
2019 Locus Recommended Reading List		2019		22.05.2020
2019 Nebula Award Winners		2019		31.05.2020
2019 Locus Finalists: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2019		21.06.2020
The Mythic Dream	Dominik Parisien, Navah Wolfe	2019	Anthology	22.06.2020
Reading Project: The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction	Gardner Dozois	2019	SF anthology	05.12.2020
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction	Gardner Dozois	2019	SF anthology	31.12.2020
The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Vol. 1	Jonathan Strahan	2020	Anthology	04.05.2020
My Favorites	Ben Bova	2020	Collection	19.05.2020
2020 Hugo Finalists: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2020		20.06.2020
2020 Locus Awards Winners: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2020		28.07.2020
2020 World Fantasy Awards Finalists: Novels, Novellas, Short Stories		2020		28.07.2020
2020 Hugo Award Winners: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2020		02.08.2020
Interstellar Flight Magazine Best of Year One	Holly Lyn Walrath	2020	SF Magazine anthology	03.08.2020
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories	Ken Liu	2020	Collection	21.08.2020
Entanglements – Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends	Sheila Williams	2020	Twelve Tomorrows anthology	15.09.2020
Short Story Reading Project: The Book of Dragons	Jonathan Strahan	2020	Fantasy anthology	27.09.2020
Short Story Reading Project: Escape Pod	S.B. Divya and Mur Lafferty	2020	SF anthology	14.10.2020
Escape Pod	S.B. Divya and Mur Lafferty	2020	SF anthology	20.10.2020
Shapers of Worlds	Edward Willett	2020	SF and Fantasy anthology	14.11.2020
The Book of Dragons	Jonathan Strahan	2020	Fantasy anthology	23.11.2020
Passages	Mercedes Lackey	2020	Valdemar Fantasy anthology	24.11.2020
Wie künstlich ist Intelligenz?	Klaus N. Frick	2020	SF Anthologie	04.12.2020
2020 Locus Recommended Reading List		2020		01.02.2021
The Best of Elizabeth Hand	Elizabeth Hand	2021	Mixed Genre Collection	27.02.2021
The Best of Walter Jon Williams	Walter Jon Williams	2021	Mixed Genre Collection	28.02.2021
Robot Artists and Black Swans	Bruce Sterling	2021	SF collection	30.03.2021
I’m Waiting for You And Other Stories	Kim Bo-Young	2021	Collection	06.04.2021
2021 Locus Award Finalists: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2021		04.05.2021
The Best of World SF	Lavie Tidhar	2021	SF and Fantasy anthology	03.06.2021
2021 Locus Award Winners: Novels, Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories		2021		28.06.2021
2021 Word Fantasy Award Finalists: Novels, Novellas, Short Stories		2021		25.07.2021
Seasons Between Us –  Tales of Identities and Memories	Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law	2021	Anthology	08.08.2021
2021 Word Fantasy Award Winners: Novels, Novellas, Short Stories		2021		13.11.2021

All My Reviews for Stories

You can find all the 686 reviews for short stories, novelettes, and novellas linked in the following list.
There are stories for nearly every year since the 1940s. Only a few years – 1942,43,45-48,51,56-59,61, and 1964 – are missing.
The list is sorted by author.

	A	B	C	D	E
1	Story Title with Link to Review	Author(s)	Publication Year	Genre and Category	Blog Post Date
2	Tough Times All Over	Joe Abercrombie	2014	Fantasy novelette	17.03.2015
3	Two’s Company	Joe Abercrombie	2016	Fantasy short story	05.03.2017
4	Balfour and Meriwether in the Vampire of Kabul	Daniel Abraham	2011	Steampunk novelette	07.05.2017
5	Yuli	Daniel Abraham	2020	Fantasy short story	02.10.2020
6	The Knack of Flying	Shelley Adina	2020	Steampunk short story	05.11.2020
7	The Mighty Mi Tok of Beijing	Brian W. Aldiss	2013	shortstory	15.12.2014
8	The Art of Space Travel	Nina Allan	2016	SF novelette	20.03.2017
9	White Curtain	Pavel Amnuel	2014	Alternate universes shortstory	26.09.2015
10	If You Take My Meaning	Charlie Jane Anders	2020	Tentacle Romance novelette	20.06.2021
11	The Screams of Dragons	Kelley Armstrong	2014	Urban Fantasy novelette	07.06.2017
12	The Potter of Bones	Eleanor Arnason	2002	Planetary SF novella	17.12.2020
13	Memento Mori	Madeline Ashby	2015	SF short story	24.12.2015
14	Nightfall	Isaac Asimov	1941	SF novelette	29.12.2015
15	Moriabe’s Children	Paolo Bacigalupi	2014		28.06.2015
16	Shooting the Apocalypse	Paolo Bacigalupi	2014	CliFi novelette	06.09.2015
17	City of Ash	Paolo Bacigalupi	2015	CliFi short story	17.04.2016
18	Mika Model	Paolo Bacigalupi	2016	SF short story	03.03.2017
19	The Bohemian Astrobleme	Kage Baker	2010	Steampunk novelette	26.04.2017
20	Where the Golden Apples Grow	Kage Baker	2006	Mars novella	16.12.2020
21	The Voices of Time	J. G. Ballard	1960	Dystopian novelette	15.01.2021
22	A Gift from the Culture	Iain M. Banks	1987	Space Opera short story	11.12.2021
23	Coma Kings	Jessica Barber	2014	Near SF short story	04.10.2015
24	Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh	John Barnes	2012	Science Fiction short story	08.05.2015
25	My Last Bringback	John Barnes	2015	SF novelette	20.12.2015
26	Martian Heart	John Barnes	2011	YA Near Future SF short story	25.12.2020
27	Lucky’s Dragon	Kelly Barnhill	2020	Midgrade Fantasy novelette	11.10.2020
28	Tower of Mud and Straw	Yaroslav Barsukov	2020	Gaslamp Fantasy novella	09.04.2021
29	Invisible Men	Christopher Barzak	2012	shortstory	12.10.2014
30	Obelisk	Stephen Baxter	2012	Science Fiction short story	10.05.2015
31	People Came from Earth	Stephen Baxter	1999	SF short story	10.04.2020
32	The Invasion of Venus	Stephen Baxter	2010	First contact short story	26.12.2020
33	Except on Saturdays	Peter S. Beagle	2020	Urban Fantasy short story	12.10.2020
34	Covenant	Elizabeth Bear	2014	Near SF short story	14.04.2015
35	The Deeps of the Sky	Elizabeth Bear	2012	Science Fiction short story	07.05.2015
36	The Hand is Quicker	Elizabeth Bear	2014	Near SF novelette	12.09.2015
37	The Heart’s Filthy Lesson	Elizabeth Bear	2015	Old Venus novelette	12.05.2016
38	Lest We Forget	Elizabeth Bear	2019	Military SF short story	04.06.2020
39	The Machine Starts	Greg Bear	2015	Near Future novelette	15.05.2016
40	Blood Music	Greg Bear	1983	Near Future SF novelette	08.03.2020
41	An Equity in Dust	R. S. Belcher	2014	Vampire novelette	09.09.2020
42	My English Name	R. S. Benedict	2017	Weird fiction novelette	31.12.2020
43	Aspects	Gregory Benford	2015	SF short story	24.12.2015
44	Slipping	Lauren Beukes	2014	shortstory	30.01.2015
45	The Green	Lauren Beukes	2012	Planetary Horror short story	28.05.2021
46	Ashes	Laura Bickle	2015	Fantasy short story	22.11.2015
47	Rattlesnakes and Men	Michael Bishop	2015	novelette	26.04.2016
48	The Pile	Michael Bishop	2008	Ghost short story	24.04.2017
49	The House of Compassionate Sharers	Michael Bishop	1977	SF novelette	28.01.2021
50	Bears Discover Fire	Terry Bisson	1990	magical realism short story	22.03.2020
51	Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind)	Holly Black	2014	SF novelette	29.03.2015
52	The Dry Spell	James P. Blaylock	2009	Magical Realism short story	08.06.2017
53	Surface Tension	James Blish	1952	SF novelette	25.05.2017
54	The Breath of War	Aliette de Bodard	2014	SF Fantasy short story	16.04.2015
55	The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile	Aliette de Bodard	2014	Space Opera short story	30.08.2015
56	The Death of Aiguillon	Aliette de Bodard	2015	Fantasy novelette	22.11.2015
57	In Blue Lily’s Wake	Aliette de Bodard	2015	SF short story	26.12.2015
58	A Salvaging of Ghosts	Aliette de Bodard	2016	SF Xuya short story	11.03.2017
59	Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders	Aliette de Bodard	2020	Urban Fantasy novella	07.07.2020
60	The Last Hunt	Aliette de Bodard	2020	Post-apocalyptic short story	25.10.2020
61	Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight	Aliette de Bodard	2015	Xuya Space Opera short story	29.12.2020
62	Immersion	Aliette de Bodard	2012	SF Xuya short story	25.04.2021
63	In the Lands of the Spill	Aliette de Bodard	2020	Posthuman short story	06.06.2021
64	The Inaccessibility of Heaven	Aliette de Bodard	2020	Urban Fantasy novelette	13.06.2021
65	Where the River Turns to Concrete	Brooke Bolander	2020	Fantasy short story	05.10.2020
66	Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius	Jorge Luis Borges	1941	Magical Realism short story	23.04.2017
67	Monster Slayer	Ben Bova	2003	Grand Tour short story	06.05.2020
68	Muzhestvo	Ben Bova	1992	SF short story	07.05.2020
69	The Great Moon Hoax, or, a Princess of Mars	Ben Bova	1996	Old Mars short story	08.05.2020
70	We’ll always have Paris	Ben Bova	2014	Main Stream Short story	08.05.2020
71	Inspiration	Ben Bova	1994	Time Travel short story	09.05.2020
72	Scheherazade and the Storytellers	Ben Bova	2010	Fairy Tale short story	11.05.2020
73	The Supersonic Zeppelin	Ben Bova	2005	Near Future SF novelette	12.05.2020
74	Mars Farts	Ben Bova	2013	Hard SF short story	14.05.2020
75	The Man who hated Gravity	Ben Bova	1989	Near Future SF short story	15.05.2020
76	Sepulcher	Ben Bova	1992	SF novelette	17.05.2020
77	The Café Coup	Ben Bova	1997	Time Travel short story	18.05.2020
78	The Angel’s Gift	Ben Bova	1984	Magical realism short story	19.05.2020
79	Sam and the flying Dutchman	Ben Bova	2003	Grand Tour novelette	19.05.2020
80	Waterbot	Ben Bova	2008	Grand Tour novelette	19.05.2020
81	Sleep Walking Now and Then	Richard Bowes	2014	Science Fiction novelette	21.04.2015
82	September 2005: The Martian	Ray Bradbury	1949	SF short story	11.05.2017
83	The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini	Chaz Brenchley	2014	Old Mars SF short story	30.08.2015
84	Centuries of Kings	Marie Brennan	2014	Fantasy short story	27.08.2020
85	Insistence of Vision	David Brin	2013	SF story	15.12.2014
86	“Shhhh. . .”	David Brin	1988	First Contact SF short story	28.10.2020
87	City of Refuge	Maurice Broaddus	2020	BLM SF short story	17.10.2020
88	The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity	Tobias Buckell	2020	Post-Singularity short story	18.10.2020
89	Penric’s Demon	Lois McMaster Bujold	2015	Fantasy novella	09.04.2016
90	Penric’s Mission	Lois McMaster Bujold	2016	Fantasy novella	29.10.2017
91	The Woman from the Ocean	Karl Bunker	2014	SF short story	06.09.2015
92	The Greatest of These is Hope	D.J. Butler	2020	YA first contact novelette	11.11.2020
93	Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler	1984	SF novelette	15.09.2015
94	Speech Sounds	Octavia E. Butler	1983	Near SF short story	19.09.2015
95	The Evening and the Morning and the Night	Octavia E. Butler	1987	Near SF novelette	19.09.2015
96	Business As Usual	Pat Cadigan	2014	shortfiction	31.01.2015
97	The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi	Pat Cadigan	2012	Science Fiction novelette	07.05.2015
98	Roadside Rescue	Pat Cadigan	1985	SF short story	16.03.2020
99	Variation on a Man	Pat Cadigan	1984	Cyberpunk short story	24.09.2020
100	One Hundred Ablutions	Jacqueline Carey	2015	Fantasy novelette	25.11.2015
101	Water Can’t be Nervous	Jonathan Carroll	2012	Mainstream short story	26.05.2017
102	Hugo/For He Can Creep	Siobhan Carroll	2019	Fairy tale	17.05.2020
103	Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse	Rae Carson	2020	Post-apocalypse short story	27.03.2021
104	A Consideration of Trees	Beth Cato	2020	Science Fantasy short story	17.10.2020
105	Hugo, To Be Taught, If Fortunate	Becky Chambers	2019	SF novella	06.06.2020
106	Pots	C.J. Cherryh	1985	SF novelette	04.10.2021
107	The Great Silence	Allora and Calzadilla and Ted Chiang	2015	First contact short story	25.04.2020
108	Tower of Babylon	Ted Chiang	2014	Alternate Universe story	02.09.2015
109	Understand	Ted Chiang	1991	Posthumanity novelette	05.09.2015
110	Story of Your Life	Ted Chiang	1998	First Contact SF novella	08.09.2015
111	Hell is the Absence of God	Ted Chiang	2001	Fantasy novelette	11.09.2015
112	The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling	Ted Chiang	2013	Near Future SF novelette	11.06.2017
113	Division by Zero	Ted Chiang	1991	short story	15.04.2020
114	Seventy-Two Letters	Ted Chiang	2000	Steampunk novella	16.04.2020
115	The Evolution of Human Science	Ted Chiang	2000	Post humanism shortstory	17.04.2020
116	Liking What You See: A Documentary	Ted Chiang	2001	Near SF novelette	17.04.2020
117	What’s Expected of Us	Ted Chiang	2005	Time travel shortstory	19.04.2020
118	The Lifecycle of Software Objects	Ted Chiang	2010	Near Future SF novella	20.04.2020
119	Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny	Ted Chiang	2011	Steampunk short story	21.04.2020
120	Exhalation	Ted Chiang	2008	SF short story	22.04.2020
121	The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate	Ted Chiang	2007	Time travel novelette	23.04.2020
122	Omphalos	Ted Chiang	2019	Speculative fiction novelette	26.04.2020
123	Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom	Ted Chiang	2019	Near Future SF novella	26.04.2020
124	It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning	Ted Chiang	2019	Near Future SF flash story	02.06.2020
125	Hikaya Sri Bujang, or The Tale of the Naga Sage	Zen Cho	2020	Fantasy short fiction	29.09.2020
126	If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again	Zen Cho	2018	Magical realism novelette	03.06.2021
127	The Rider	Jérôme Cigut	2014	Near SF novelette	30.08.2015
128	Hugo/The Haunting of Tram Car 015	P. Djèlí Clark	2019	Urban Fantasy novella	27.05.2020
129	Ring Shout	P. Djèlí Clark	2020	Historical horror novella	28.10.2020
130	The Angel of Khan el-Khalili	Phenderson Djèlí Clark	2017	Steampunk short story	01.05.2021
131	A Dead Djinn in Cairo	Phenderson Djèlí Clark	2016	Steampunk novelette	03.05.2021
132	The Nine Billion Names of God	Arthur C. Clarke	1953	SF short story	30.12.2015
133	The Star	Arthur C. Clarke	1955	Religious SF short story	07.01.2021
134	Beside the Damned River	D. J. Cockburn	2014	SF shortstory	19.09.2015
135	Lions and Tigers and Girlfriends	Tina Connolly	2020	SF short story	20.10.2020
136	Rates of Change	James S. A. Corey	2015	SF novelette	20.12.2015
137	Drive	James S.A. Corey	2012	Science Fiction short story	07.05.2015
138	The Butcher of Anderson Station	James S.A. Corey	2011	Military SF novelette	09.11.2021
139	A Better Way to Die	Paul Cornell	2014	Fantasy short story	03.06.2015
140	The Road to NPS	Sandra McDonald and Stephan D. Covey	2012	Science Fiction short story	08.05.2015
141	Restoring the Magic	Ian Creasey	2014	Fantasy short story	06.09.2020
142	Snow	John Crowley	1985	SF short story	16.03.2020
143	Stepsister	Leah Cypess	2020	Fairy tale novelette	14.04.2021
144	A Dry, Quiet War	Tony Daniel	1996	Spaghetti Western in Space novelette	30.03.2020
145	Weep for Day	Indrapramit Das	2012	SF novelette	23.07.2014
146	Kali_Na	Indrapramit Das	2019	Cyberpunk short story	22.06.2020
147	Aye, and Gomorrah	Samuel R. Delany	1967	SF short story	20.09.2020
148	Beyond Lies the Wub	Philip K. Dick	1952	SF short story	27.05.2017
149	Laws of Night and Silk	Seth Dickinson	2016	Fantasy short story	13.03.2017
150	Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts	Cory Doctorow	2014	near SF short story	31.01.2015
151	The Man Who Sold the Moon	Cory Doctorow	2014	Near SF novella	13.09.2015
152	Craphound	Cory Doctorow	1998	Space Western short story	25.09.2020
153	Clockwork Fagin	Cory Doctorow	2012	Steampunk novelette	19.10.2020
154	Season of the Soulless	Betsy Dornbusch	2014	Fantasy short story	02.09.2020
155	Sic Him, Hellhound! Kill! Kill!	Hal Duncan	2012	Urban fantasy short story	26.05.2017
156	One Million Lira	Thoraiya Dyer	2014	Military SF short story	07.11.2020
157	Spaceship October	Greg van Eekhout	2020	SF short story	19.10.2020
158	Zero for Conduct	Greg Egan	2013	novelette	15.12.2014
159	Shadow Flock	Greg Egan	2014	Near SF novelette	07.04.2015
160	Wang’s Carpets	Greg Egan	1995	Posthuman first contact novelette	29.03.2020
161	Glory	Greg Egan	2007	Hard SF novelette	15.12.2020
162	Oceanic	Greg Egan	1998	Planetary Romance novella	01.11.2021
163	Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon	Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki	2020	Science Fantasy novella	20.04.2021
164	The Pill	Meg Elison	2020	Dystopian novelette	15.04.2021
165	Dresses Like White Elephants	Meg Elison	2020	Magical Realism short story	08.06.2021
166	The Long Walk	Kate Elliott	2020	High Fantasy novelette	22.10.2020
167	The Shipping Forecast	Warren Ellis	2014	near SF shortstory	31.01.2015
168	Along the Scenic Route	Harlan Ellison	1969	Near SF short story	16.05.2015
169	The Whimper of Whipped Dogs	Harlan Ellison	1973	magical realism short story	16.05.2015
170	On the Downhill Side	Harlan Ellison	1972	magical realism short story	17.05.2015
171	Basilisk	Harlan Ellison	1972	magical realism short story	19.05.2015
172	Neon	Harlan Ellison	1973	SF short story	19.05.2015
173	Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes	Harlan Ellison	1967	magical realism novelette	21.05.2015
174	Delusion for a Dragon Slayer	Harlan Ellison	1966	fantasy short story	22.05.2015
175	Shattered Like a Glass Goblin	Harlan Ellison	1968	magical realism short story	22.05.2015
176	Paingod	Harlan Ellison	1965	magical realism short story	25.05.2015
177	Ernest and the Machine God	Harlan Ellison	1968	magical realism short story	25.05.2015
178	Rock God	Harlan Ellison	1969	magical realism short story	27.05.2015
179	Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54′ N, Longitude 77° 00′ 13″ W	Harlan Ellison	1972	magical realism novelette	27.05.2015
180	Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman	Harlan Ellison	1965	Dystopian short story	07.04.2017
181	The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World	Harlan Ellison	1967	SF Horror novelette	15.04.2017
182	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison	1967	SF Horror short story	23.04.2017
183	The Beast that Shouted Love	Harlan Ellison	1968	SFshort story	26.04.2017
184	A Boy and His Dog	Harlan Ellison	1969	Post-apocalyptic novella	27.04.2017
185	He Who Grew Up Reading Sherlock Holmes	Harlan Ellison	2014	Short story	09.06.2017
186	The Deathbird	Harlan Ellison	1973	magical realism short story	27.04.2020
187	I’m Looking for Kadak	Harlan Ellison	1974	SF novelette	30.04.2020
188	Croatoan	Harlan Ellison	1975	Horror short story	04.05.2020
189	Jeffty is Five	Harlan Ellison	1977	Magic Realism short story	10.01.2021
190	The Truth About Owls	Amal El-Mohtar	2014	Fantasy short story	14.04.2015
191	Madeleine	Amal El-Mohtar	2015	short story	28.04.2016
192	Seasons of Glass and Iron	Amal El-Mohtar	2016	Fairy tale short story	19.03.2017
193	The Microscopic Giants	Paul Ernst	1936	SF short story	17.04.2017
194	Sadness	Timons Esaias	2014	Posthumanity SF shortstory	26.09.2015
195	The Emptiness in the Heart of All Things	Fábio Fernandes	2018	Magical reality novelette	14.05.2021
196	What Do You Do?	Gillian Flynn	2014	weird myster shortstory	17.03.2015
197	When It Ends, He Catches Her	Eugie Foster	2014	Weird short story	16.04.2015
198	Younger Women	Karen Joy Fowler	2011	Weird short story	11.05.2017
199	The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things	Karen Joy Fowler	1985	Time Travel short story	02.12.2020
200	The Cyborg and the Cemetery	Nancy Fulda	2013	shortstory	15.12.2014
201	Away With the Wolves	Sarah Gailey	2019	Fantasy novelette	20.06.2020
202	Tiger Lawyer Gets It Right	Sarah Gailey	2020	Surreal short story	16.10.2020
203	Black Dog	Neil Gaiman	2015	Ghost story novelette	26.04.2016
204	A Thing of Beauty	Dr. Charles E. Gannon	2011	First contact SF novelette	12.11.2020
205	The Sun from Both Sides	R. S. A. Garcia	2019	Space Opera novelette	15.05.2021
206	Persona	Joel Garreau	2014	near SF shortstory	31.01.2015
207	Death Cookie/Easy Ice	William Gibson	2014	SF story	01.02.2015
208	The Winter Market	William Gibson	1985	Cyberpunk novelette	18.03.2020
209	New Rose Hotel	William Gibson	1984	Cyberpunk short story	01.01.2021
210	Johnny Mnemonic	William Gibson	1981	Cyberpunk short story	14.01.2021
211	The Gernsback Continuum	William Gibson	1981	SF short story	27.01.2021
212	Fragments of a Hologram Rose	William Gibson	1977	Cyberpunk short story	08.02.2021
213	Hinterlands	William Gibson	1981	Space Opera short story	07.03.2021
214	Burning Chrome	William Gibson	1982	Cyberpunk novelette	12.03.2021
215	Touring with the Alien	Carolyn Ives Gilman	2016	First contact SF novelette	14.03.2017
216	Nebula Winner: This Is How You Lose the Time War	Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone	2019	Time travel novella	02.05.2020
217	Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light	Richard A. Lovett and William Gleason	2012	novella	15.10.2014
218	Lambing Season	Molly Gloss	2002	First contact short story	13.04.2020
219	Bootstrap	Kathleen Ann Goonan	2013	shortstory	15.12.2014
220	Cimmeria: From The Journal of Imaginary Anthropology	Theodora Goss	2014	Fantasy short story	14.04.2015
221	Red as Blood and White as Bone	Theodora Goss	2016	Fairy tale novelette	23.03.2017
222	Fire Walker	Keith Gouveia	2014	Fantasy short story	03.09.2020
223	Nebula Winner: Give the Family My Love	A.T. Greenblatt	2019	SF short story	23.05.2020
224	Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super	A.T. Greenblatt	2020	Superhero novelette	07.04.2021
225	Even the Crumbs Were Delicious	Daryl Gregory	2016	SF short story	11.03.2017
226	The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm	Daryl Gregory	2008	Superhero novelette	19.12.2020
227	Cold Wind	Nicola Griffith	2014	Fantasy short story	06.04.2015
228	The Day Before the Revolution	Ursula K. Le Guin	1974	SF short story	06.05.2015
229	The Word for World Is Forest	Ursula K. Le Guin	1972	SF novella	01.06.2015
230	Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight	Ursula K. Le Guin	1987	Magical Realism novelette	13.04.2017
231	The Diary of the Rose	Ursula K. Le Guin	1976	Dystopian novelette	10.06.2018
232	Coming of Age in Karhide	Ursula K. Le Guin	1995	Hainish novelette	29.03.2020
233	The Finder	Ursula K. Le Guin	2001	Earthsea novella	21.05.2020
234	The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas	Ursula K. Le Guin	1973	Utopia short story	29.07.2020
235	Vaster than Empires and more Slow	Ursula K. Le Guin	1971	Hainish novelette	18.09.2020
236	Forgiveness Day	Ursula K. Le Guin	1994	Planetary Romance novella	26.10.2021
237	None So Blind	Joe Haldeman	1994	Near Future SF short story	26.03.2020
238	Tricentennial	Joe Haldeman	1976	Hard SF novelette	27.10.2020
239	The Hemingway Hoax	Joe Haldeman	1990	Multidimensional Time Travel novella	09.01.2021
240	Last Summer at Mars Hill	Elizabeth Hand	1998	Magical realism novella	10.02.2021
241	Pavane for a Prince of the Air	Elizabeth Hand	2002	Literary fiction novelette	11.02.2021
242	The Bacchae	Elizabeth Hand	1991	Horror SF short story	12.02.2021
243	Cleopatra Brimstone	Elizabeth Hand	2001	Dark Fantasy novella	13.02.2021
244	The Have-Nots	Elizabeth Hand	1992	Magical realism short story	14.02.2021
245	The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerphon	Elizabeth Hand	2010	Magical realism novella	16.02.2021
246	The Lost Domain—Three Story Variations: Echo, The Saffron Gatherers, and Kronia	Elizabeth Hand	2005	Apocalyptic fiction short stories	20.02.2021
247	Near Zennor	Elizabeth Hand	2011	Weird fiction novella	21.02.2021
248	The Least Trumps	Elizabeth Hand	2002	Magical realism novella	24.02.2021
249	Illyria	Elizabeth Hand	2007	Magical realism novella	26.02.2021
250	Boxes	Nick Harkaway	2015	Near SF short story	15.11.2015
251	Mr. Death	Alix E. Harrow	2021	Humorous ghost short story	05.01.2021
252	The Sycamore and the Sybil	Alix E. Harrow	2020	Fantasy short story	05.06.2021
253	Do Not Look Back, My Lion	Alix E. Harrow	2019	High Fantasy short story	13.05.2020
254	Game	Maria Dahvana Headley	2012	Magical Realism novelette	15.04.2017
255	The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods	Maria Dahvana Headley	2020	short story	11.06.2021
256	The Chapel Perilous	Kevin Hearne	2013	Fantasy novelette	22.11.2015
257	Goddess at the Crossroads	Kevin Hearne	2015	Fantasy short story	22.11.2015
258	Last Breath	Joe Hill	2005	Weird short story	11.05.2017
259	The Least of the Deathly Arts	Kat Howard	2012	Fantasy short story	26.05.2017
260	Hugo Winner: As the Last I May Know	S.L. Huang	2019	Alternate History short story	15.05.2020
261	Call to Arms	Tanya Huff	2020	Fantasy novelette	31.10.2020
262	The Inn of the Seven Blessings	Matthew Hughes	2014	Fantasy short story	17.03.2015
263	Body Politic	Kameron Hurley	2015	SF short story	20.12.2015
264	Citizens of Elsewhen	Kameron Hurley	2018	Time travel short story	14.10.2020
265	Drones	Simon Ing	2015	SF short story	20.12.2015
266	Number Nine Moon	Alex Irvine	2016	SF short story	11.03.2017
267	The Ones Who Stay and Fight	N. K. Jemisin	2018	Utopia short story	29.07.2020
268	Red Dirt Witch	N.K. Jemisin	2016	Urban Fantasy short story	22.03.2017
269	Emergency Skin	N.K. Jemisin	2019	Transhuman SF novelette	16.05.2020
270	Stone Hunger	N.K. Jemisin	2014	Broken Earth novelette	28.06.2020
271	Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death	N.K. Jemisin	2019	Science Fantasy short story	20.10.2020
272	The Monk of Lingyin Temple	Xia Jia	2020	Near Future SF novelette	31.08.2020
273	Bricks, Sticks, Straw	Gwyneth Jones	2012	Science Fiction short story	10.05.2015
274	Emergence	Gwyneth Jones	2015	SF short story	23.12.2015
275	The Universe of Things	Gwyneth Jones	1993	First Contact short story	27.09.2020
276	Wait for Night	Stephen Graham Jones	2020	Horror short story	12.06.2021
277	DUMP	Cristina Jurado	2018	Cyberpunk short story	17.05.2021
278	Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water	Vylar Kaftan	2019	SF novella	30.05.2020
279	Someday	James Patrick Kelly	2014	SF short story	15.04.2015
280	10 to 16 to 1	James Patrick Kelly	1999	Time travel novelette	06.04.2020
281	Your Boyfriend Experience	James Patrick Kelly	2020	Romance SF novelette	26.08.2020
282	Mr. Boy	James Patrick Kelly	1990	Posthumanism novella	13.01.2021
283	The Pure Product	John Kessel	1986	Time Travel novelette	18.03.2020
284	Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance	John Kessel	2009	Space Opera novelette	21.12.2020
285	Dancy vs. the Pterosaur	Caitlín R. Kiernan	2015	Postapocalyptic short story	09.05.2016
286	The Prayer of Ninety Cats	Caitlín R. Kiernan	2013	Dark Fantasy novelette	04.06.2017
287	Fisher-Bird	T. Kingfisher	2019	Fantasy short story	12.06.2020
288	Report of Dr. Hollowmas on the Incident at Jackrabbit Five	T. Kingfisher	2020	Space opera short story	14.10.2020
289	Metal Like Blood in the Dark	T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)	2020	SF Fairy Tale short story	24.04.2021
290	Amicae Aeternum	Ellen Klages	2014	near future SF short story	30.08.2015
291	Pox	Ellen Klages	2020	Magical realism short story	09.10.2020
292	A little Wisdom	Mary Robinette Kowal	2020	Near Future SF short story	24.08.2020
293	Jaiden’s Weaver	Mary Robinette Kowal	2009	YA SF short story	18.10.2020
294	Pathways	Nancy Kress	2013	novelette	15.12.2014
295	Yesterday’s Kin	Nancy Kress	2014	First encounter SF novella	13.04.2015
296	Beggars in Spain	Nancy Kress	1991	Near Future SF novella	01.06.2015
297	Cocoons	Nancy Kress	2015	SF short story	23.12.2015
298	Trinity	Nancy Kress	1984	SF novella	11.03.2020
299	Invisible People	Nancy Kress	2020	Near Future SF novelette	08.08.2020
300	Rereading Beggars in Spain	Nancy Kress	1991		17.01.2021
301	The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye	Matthew Kressel	2014	SF	16.04.2015
302	Cat Pictures Please	Naomi Kritzer	2015	Near Future SF short story	29.04.2016
303	Little Free Library	Naomi Kritzer	2020	Magical Realism short story	17.04.2021
304	Monster	Naomi Kritzer	2020	Thriller novelette	17.10.2021
305	The Nine Curves River	R. F. Kuang	2020	Fantasy short story	10.10.2020
306	Ghost Colours	Derek Künsken	2015	SF short story	29.10.2020
307	Fourth Nail	Mur Lafferty	2020	Posthuman SF short story	16.10.2020
308	The Stars Do Not Lie	Jay Lake	2012	SF novella	27.09.2015
309	West to East	Jay Lake	2014	SF shortstory	27.09.2015
310	A Long Walk Home	Jay Lake	2011	SF novelette	16.06.2017
311	The Stump and the Spire	Joseph R. Lallo	2014	Fantasy short story	08.09.2020
312	Hide and Horns	Joe R. Lansdale	2009	Western novelette	28.04.2017
313	God Decay	Rich Larson	2014	near SF short story	09.10.2015
314	You Make Pattaya	Rich Larson	2016	Near Future SF con-men short story	06.03.2017
315	Echo the Echo	Rich Larson	2020	Near Future SF short story	13.08.2020
316	Jonas and the Fox	Rich Larson	2016	YA SF novelette	30.12.2020
317	Bound	Mark Lawrence	2019	Romance Fantasy novelette	15.06.2020
318	The Justified	Ann Leckie	2019	Africanfuturism novelette	10.06.2020
319	Welcome to the Legion of Six	Fonda Lee	2019	Superhero short story	09.11.2020
320	Your Own Undoing	P. H. Lee	2021	Fantasy short story	11.01.2021
321	Crying in the Rain	Tanith Lee	1987	Post apocalyptic short story	26.09.2020
322	The Cold Inequalities	Yoon Ha Lee	2015	SF short story	23.12.2015
323	Foxfire, Foxfire	Yoon Ha Lee	2016	SF&F novelette	23.03.2017
324	Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain	Yoon Ha Lee	2010	Time Travel short story	12.12.2020
325	The Mermaid Astronaut	Yoon Ha Lee	2020	SF Fairy Tale short story	21.04.2021
326	I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married	Fonda Lee	2019	Near Future SF	21.06.2020
327	The Four Profound Weaves	R.B. Lemberg	2020	Fantasy novella	16.04.2021
328	Old Paint	Megan Lindholm	2012	novelette	29.07.2014
329	The Lady and the Fox	Kelly Link	2014	magical realism short story	29.06.2015
330	Magic for Beginners	Kelly Link	2005	Magic realism novella	13.12.2015
331	Valley of the Girls	Kelly Link	2011	SF short story	26.05.2017
332	The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear	Kelly Link	2019	Short story	17.06.2020
333	THE LONG HAUL from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009	Ken Liu	2014	alternative history	29.03.2015
334	The Regular	Ken Liu	2014	Near Future SF novella	06.09.2015
335	The Paper Menagerie	Ken Liu	2011	Magic realism short story	27.02.2016
336	The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species	Ken Liu	2012	SF short story	27.02.2016
337	State Change	Ken Liu	2004	Magic Realism short story	28.02.2016
338	The Perfect Match	Ken Liu	2012	Dystopian short story	29.02.2016
339	The Literomancer	Ken Liu	2010	Magic realism short story	02.03.2016
340	Good Hunting	Ken Liu	2012	Steampunk short story	02.03.2016
341	Simulacrum	Ken Liu	2011	Near SF short story	04.03.2016
342	The Waves	Ken Liu	2012	Post-humanity novelette	05.03.2016
343	Mono no aware	Ken Liu	2012	SF short story	05.03.2016
344	The Man Who Ended History	Ken Liu	2011	Time travel novella	06.03.2016
345	All the Flavors	Ken Liu	2012	Silkpunk novella	06.03.2016
346	A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel	Ken Liu	2013	Alternate history short story	06.03.2016
347	The Litigation Master and the Monkey King	Ken Liu	2013	Historical fiction novelette	06.03.2016
348	Thoughts and Prayers	Ken Liu	2019	Near Future SF short story	01.06.2020
349	Ghost Days	Ken Liu	2013	Transhuman SF novelette	23.06.2020
350	Maxwell’s Demon	Ken Liu	2012	Magical realism short story	05.07.2020
351	The Reborn	Ken Liu	2014	SF novelette	09.07.2020
352	Byzantine Empathy	Ken Liu	2018	Near Future SF novelette	13.07.2020
353	Maddie – an Apocalyptic Triptychon	Ken Liu	2014	3 Transhuman short stories	15.07.2020
354	Staying Behind	Ken Liu	2011	Transhuman short story	17.07.2020
355	Real Artists	Ken Liu	2011	Near Future SF short story	19.07.2020
356	Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer	Ken Liu	2011	Transhuman short story	24.07.2020
357	Memories of My Mother	Ken Liu	2012	SF flash fiction	26.07.2020
358	Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit – Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts	Ken Liu	2016	Clifi short story	02.08.2020
359	Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard	Ken Liu	2020	Science Fantasy novelette	09.08.2020
360	The Hidden Girl	Ken Liu	2017	Wuxia fantasy novelette	15.08.2020
361	Seven Birthdays	Ken Liu	2016	Transhuman short story	17.08.2020
362	The Message	Ken Liu	2012	SF short story	19.08.2020
363	Cutting	Ken Liu	2012	Flash fiction	21.08.2020
364	A Whisper of Blue	Ken Liu	2020	Fantasy novelette	03.10.2020
365	An Advanced Reader’s Picture Book of Comparative Cognition	Ken Liu	2016	Near SF short story	15.10.2020
366	50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know	Ken Liu	2020	Near Future SF short story	04.06.2021
367	Enemy Mine	Barry B. Longyear	1979	SF novella	01.06.2015
368	A Year and a Day in Old Theradane	Scott Lynch	2014		17.03.2015
369	Maybe Just Go Up There and Talk to It	Scott Lynch	2020	Fantasy novelette	23.11.2020
370	Eyes of the Crocodile	Malena Salazar Maciá	2020	Post-singularity short story	12.05.2021
371	The Snowball Effect	Katherine MacLean	1952	SF short story	04.06.2017
372	The Visitor from Taured	Ian R. MacLeod	2016	SF novelette	25.03.2017
373	The Crane Method	Ian R. MacLeod	2011	Magical realism short story	04.06.2017
374	Breathmoss	Ian R. MacLeod	2002	SF novella	13.04.2020
375	The Discovered Country	Ian R. MacLeod	2013	Posthuman novelette	28.12.2020
376	New Light on the Drake Equation	Ian R. MacLeod	2001	Near Future SF novella	04.11.2021
377	The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family	Usman T. Malik	2014		12.04.2015
378	The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn	Usman T. Malik	2015	Fantasy novella	25.04.2016
379	Sandkings	George R.R. Martin	1979	Horror SF novelette	20.05.2020
380	The Way of Cross and Dragon	George R.R. Martin	1979	Religious SF novelette	08.01.2021
381	The Man	Paul J. McAuley	2012	shortfiction	15.10.2014
382	Macy Minnot’s Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler’s Green, the Potter’s Garden	Paul J. McAuley	2012	shortstory	15.10.2014
383	Transitional Forms	Paul J. McAuley	2013	shortstory	15.12.2014
384	Second Skin	Paul J. McAuley	1997	Quiet War short story	06.04.2020
385	Elves of Antarctica	Paul McAuley	2016	CliFi short story	25.03.2017
386	Dead Men Walking	Paul McAuley	2006	Quiet War novelette	07.12.2020
387	Small Bird’s Plea	Todd McCaffrey	2020	YA Science Fantasy short story	02.11.2020
388	The Revolution Will Not Be Refrigerated	Ian McDonald	2013	shortstory	15.12.2014
389	The Fifth Dragon	Ian McDonald	2014	SF short story	14.04.2015
390	The Falls: A Luna Story	Ian McDonald	2015	SF novelette	19.12.2015
391	Recording Angel	Ian McDonald	1996	First contact short story	30.03.2020
392	The Little Goddess	Ian McDonald	2005	Near future SF novella	06.12.2020
393	Tendeléo’s Story	Ian McDonald	2000	First contact novella	03.11.2021
394	Every Heart a Doorway	Seanan McGuire	2016	Magical realism novella	28.05.2017
395	Phantoms of the Midway	Seanan McGuire	2019	Ghost novelette	09.06.2020
396	Hoard	Seanan McGuire	2020	Fantasy short story	24.10.2020
397	In Silent Streams, Where Once the Summer Shone	Seanan McGuire	2020	Apocalyptic short story	08.11.2020
398	Useless Things	Maureen F. McHugh	2012	Near Future SF short story	21.12.2020
399	The Cost to Be Wise	Maureen F. McHugh	1996	Planetary Romance novella	27.10.2021
400	The Gorgon in the Cupboard	Patricia A. McKillip	2004	Fantasy novella	16.03.2016
401	Which Witch	Patricia A. McKillip	2012	Urban Fantasy short story	18.03.2016
402	Something Rich and Strange	Patricia A. McKillip	1994	Magic realism novel	25.03.2016
403	Camouflage	Patricia A. McKillip	2020	Time Travel Fantasy short story	19.11.2020
404	Steamgothic	Sean McMullen	2012	novelette	15.10.2014
405	The Last Magician	William Meikle	2014	Fantasy short story	06.09.2020
406	The Last Poet and the Robots	A. Merritt	1934	SF short story	11.04.2017
407	Calved	Sam J. Miller	2015	short story	10.05.2016
408	A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary	Sam J. Miller	2021	Urban Fantasy short story	28.03.2021
409	Conditionally Human	Walter M. Miller, Jr.	1952	SF novella	17.11.2017
410	Evanescence	L.E. Modesitt, Jr.	2020	First Contact short story	03.11.2020
411	Communion	Mary Anne Mohanraj	2014	SF short story	11.10.2015
412	Chitai Heiki Koronbin	David Moles	2012	shortstory	29.07.2014
413	Finisterra	David Moles	2007	Planetary SF novelette	18.12.2020
414	His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light	Mimi Mondal	2019	Fantasy novelette	28.05.2020
415	The Wreck of the “Charles Dexter Ward”	Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette	2012	novelette	12.10.2014
416	Boojum	Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette	2009	Horror Space Opera novelette	22.12.2020
417	The Deepwater Bride	Tamsyn Muir	2015	Lovecraftian novelette	14.04.2016
418	Rachel in Love	Pat Murphy	1987	Transhumanism novelette	07.11.2021
419	Exile from Extinction	Ramez Naam	2015	SF short story	26.12.2015
420	Nightside on Callisto	Linda Nagata	2012	shortstory	07.08.2014
421	Winter Timeshare	Ray Nayler	2017	Far future short story	30.12.2020
422	The Monogamy Hormone	Annalee Newitz	2020	Romance SF short story	28.08.2020
423	Cut Me Another Quill, Mister Fitz	Garth Nix	2020	Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz short story	23.10.2020
424	Spinning Silver	Naomi Novik	2016	Fairy Tale novelette	04.03.2017
425	The Old Man with the Third Hand	Kofi Nyameye	2017	Weird fiction short story	26.05.2021
426	Binti	Nnedi Okorafor	2015	Afrofuturism novella	15.11.2015
427	Binti: Sacred Fire	Nnedi Okorafor	2019	Africanfuturism novelette	08.06.2020
428	Riot Baby	Tochi Onyebuchi	2020	Superhero novella	30.03.2021
429	The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power	Karen Osborne	2019	SF short story	25.05.2020
430	Water Rights	An Owomoyela	2012	Science Fiction short story	10.05.2015
431	Outsider	An Owomoyela	2015	SF novelette	19.12.2015
432	Don’t mind me	Suzanne Palmer	2020	Near Future SF short story	30.08.2020
433	Weather	Susan Palwick	2014	Posthumanity SF short story	07.09.2015
434	Habitat	K. J. Parker	2020	Fantasy short story	07.10.2020
435	I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There	K. J. Parker	2014	Fantasy short story	07.04.2015
436	Downfall of the Gods	K. J. Parker	2015	Fantasy novella	10.01.2016
437	Mightier than the Sword	K. J. Parker	2017	Fantasy novella	06.04.2017
438	A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong	K. J. Parker	2011	Fantasy novella	10.06.2017
439	The Cryptid	Emil Hjörvar Petersen	2021	Fantasy novelette	22.05.2021
440	Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math	Aimee Picchi	2020	Fantasy flash fiction	05.04.2021
441	A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide	Sarah Pinsker	2014	SF short story	17.04.2015
442	Hugo/The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye	Sarah Pinsker	2019	Weird fiction novelette	28.05.2020
443	Two Truths and a Lie	Sarah Pinsker	2020	Horror novelette	08.04.2021
444	Day Million	Frederik Pohl	1966	Post-humanity short story	06.01.2021
445	Outnumbering the Dead	Frederik Pohl	1990	Transhumanity novella	15.03.2021
446	Sudden, Broken, and Unexpected	Steven Popkes	2012	novella	11.08.2014
447	Red Lights, and Rain	Gareth L. Powell	2014	SF shortstory	27.09.2015
448	Pod Dreams of Tuckertown	Gareth L. Powell	2007	SF short story	08.11.2020
449	A Guide for Working Breeds	Vina Jie-Min Prasad	2020	Comical SF short story	20.03.2021
450	Fandom for Robots	Vina Jie-Min Prasad	2017	SF short story	28.04.2021
451	Troublesolving	Tim Pratt	2009	SF novelette	27.05.2017
452	A Princess of Nigh-Space	Tim Pratt	2020	Multiverse short story	15.10.2020
453	Tanglefoot	Cherie Priest	2008	Steampunk novelette	26.04.2017
454	Debtless	Chen Qiufan	2020	Space Opera novelette	27.04.2021
455	Tyche and the Ants	Hannu Rajaniemi	2012	Science Fantasy shortstory	12.10.2014
456	Deus ex homine	Hannu Rajaniemi	2005	posthuman SF shortstory	07.03.2015
457	The Server and the Dragon	Hannu Rajaniemi	2005	Hard SF story	07.03.2015
458	The Haunting of Apollo A7LB	Hannu Rajaniemi	2015	shortstory	08.03.2015
459	Elegy for a Young Elk	Hannu Rajaniemi	2010	post-singularity SF shortstory	13.03.2015
460	Fisher of Men	Hannu Rajaniemi	2006	weird fantasy shortstory	18.03.2015
461	His Master’s Voice	Hannu Rajaniemi	2008	posthuman SF shortstory	18.03.2015
462	The Jugaad Cathedral	Hannu Rajaniemi	2012	near future SF shortstory	18.03.2015
463	Ghost Dogs	Hannu Rajaniemi	2014	weird shortstory	19.03.2015
464	Topsight	Hannu Rajaniemi	2012	near future SF shortstory	20.03.2015
465	Invisible Planets	Hannu Rajaniemi	2014	SF shortstory	20.03.2015
466	And Now His Lordship Is Laughing	Shiv Ramdas	2019	magic realism short story	01.05.2020
467	Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico	Paul Graham Raven	2014	near SF story	01.02.2015
468	Katabasis	Robert Reed	2012	novella	07.08.2014
469	Eater-of-Bone	Robert Reed	2014	SF novella	14.10.2014
470	Blood Wedding	Robert Reed	2014	near SF novelette	11.10.2015
471	The Empress in her Glory	Robert Reed	2015	SF short story	21.05.2016
472	Guest of Honor	Robert Reed	1993	SF novelette	24.03.2020
473	Good Mountain	Robert Reed	2005	SF novella	09.12.2020
474	Kirinyaga	Mike Resnick	1988	SF novelette	20.03.2020
475	The Water Thief	Alastair Reynolds	2012	shortstory	07.08.2014
476	Vainglory	Alastair Reynolds	2012	Science Fiction short story	10.05.2015
477	In Babelsberg	Alastair Reynolds	2014	SF shortstory	26.09.2015
478	A Murmuration	Alastair Reynolds	2015	Hard SF short story	29.04.2016
479	Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee	Alastair Reynolds	2016	SF short story	05.06.2017
480	Permafrost	Alastair Reynolds	2019	Time travel novella	16.06.2020
481	The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter	Alastair Reynolds	2007	Post-Post-apocalyptic short story	11.12.2020
482	Turquoise Days	Alastair Reynolds	2002	Planetary Romance novella	05.11.2021
483	A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy	Rebecca Roanhorse	2019	SF story	14.06.2020
484	What Did Tessimond Tell You?	Adam Roberts	2012	shortstory	28.07.2014
485	Thing and Sick	Adam Roberts	2014	SF novelette	09.10.2015
486	Hair	Adam Roberts	2009	Near Future SF novelette	23.12.2020
487	Before I Wake	Kim Stanley Robinson	1989	SF short story	23.09.2020
488	Ein Hundert	Kim Stanley Robinson	2020	Magical Futurism short story	27.08.2021
489	Pwnage	Justina Robson	2013	shortstory	15.12.2014
490	Waters of Versailles	Kelly Robson	2015	Historical fantasy novella	17.04.2016
491	La Vitesse	Kelly Robson	2020	Fantasy short story	13.10.2020
492	Good Intentions	Christopher Ruocchio	2020	Planetary SF short story	10.11.2020
493	Safety Test	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	2012	Science Fiction short story	08.05.2015
494	When It Changed	Joanna Russ	1972	Feministic short story	29.11.2020
495	In Sight	Cheryl Rydborn	2013	shortstory	15.12.2014
496	Capitalism in the 22nd Century, or, A.I.R.	Geoff Ryman	2015	SF short story	09.05.2016
497	Those Shadows Laugh	Geoff Ryman	2016	SF novelette	19.03.2017
498	Have Not Have	Geoff Ryman	2001	SF novelette	13.04.2020
499	The Height of Our Fathers	Jeff Salyards	2014	Fantasy novelette	05.09.2020
500	Fairy Tales for Robots	Sofia Samatar	2020	SF novelette	14.06.2021
501	The Undiscovered	William Sanders	1997	Alternate History novelette	31.03.2020
502	The Eight-Thousanders	Jason Sanford	2020	Vampire short story	19.03.2021
503	Alien Animal Encounters	John Scalzi	2001	SF flash fiction	16.10.2020
504	The Tale of the Wicked	John Scalzi	2009	Space Opera novelette	01.11.2020
505	Kheldyu	Karl Schroeder	2014	Near Future SF novelette	13.04.2015
506	Jubilee	Karl Schroeder	2014	SF novelette	27.09.2015
507	The Bank of Burkina Faso	Ekaterina Sedia	2012	Magical realism short story	23.05.2021
508	Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island	Nibedita Sen	2019	Horror short story	05.05.2020
509	Jamaica Ginger	Nalo Hopkinson & Nisi Shawl	2015	Steampunk short story	27.04.2016
510	Salvador	Lucius Shepard	1984	Near Future SF short story	10.03.2020
511	The Great Detective	Delia Sherman	2016	Steampunk novelette	16.03.2017
512	Perfidia	Lewis Shiner	2006	thriller novelette	14.04.2017
513	The Belonging Kind	William Gibson and John Shirley	1981	Horror short story	06.03.2021
514	Today I am Paul	Martin L. Shoemaker	2015	Near SF short story	25.04.2016
515	The Tomb of the Pontifex Dvorn	Robert Silverberg	2011	SF novelette	06.06.2017
516	Tales from the Venia Woods	Robert Silverberg	1989	Alternative History short story	22.03.2020
517	Good News from the Vatican	Robert Silverberg	1971	SF short story	19.09.2020
518	Sailing to Byzantium	Robert Silverberg	1985	Far future SF novella	03.01.2021
519	Desertion	Clifford D. Simak	1944	SF short story	30.04.2017
520	Ruminations in an Alien Tongue	Vandana Singh	2012	SF shortstory	11.10.2014
521	Entanglement	Vandana Singh	2014	CliFi novella	20.09.2015
522	Delhi	Vandana Singh	2004	Time travel short story	02.05.2021
523	The Game of Rat and Dragon	Cordwainer Smith	1955	Space Opera short story	12.01.2021
524	The Seventeenth Kind	Michael Marshall Smith	2011	SF novelette	18.04.2017
525	Blood Is Another Word for Hunger	Rivers Solomon	2019	Weird short story	10.05.2020
526	Hugo/The Deep	Rivers Solomon	2019	Fantasy novella	24.05.2020
527	The Wheel of Samsara	Han Song	2009	SF short story	04.05.2021
528	The Machine	Kenny Soward	2014	Fantasy short story	01.09.2020
529	The Indelible Dark	William Browning Spencer	2013	SF novelette	01.06.2017
530	Desert Lexicon	Banjanun Sriduangkaew	2015	SF short story	20.12.2015
531	Mortimer Gray’s History of Death	Brian Stableford	1995	Posthuman SF novella	27.03.2020
532	Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun	Allen Steele	2013	shortstory	15.12.2014
533	The Prodigal Son	Allen Steele	2014	Arkwright SF series novella	04.10.2015
534	The Emperor of Mars	Allen Steele	2010	Near Future SF novelette	24.12.2020
535	The Various Mansions of the Universe	Bruce Sterling	2014	near future SF story	01.02.2015
536	The Peak of Eternal Light	Bruce Sterling	2012	Science Fiction novelette	10.05.2015
537	Pictures from the Resurrection	Bruce Sterling	2015	SF short story	24.12.2015
538	Dinner in Audoghast	Bruce Sterling	1985	Historical short story	16.03.2020
539	Black Swan	Bruce Sterling	2009	Alternate Universe SF novelette	17.03.2021
540	Elephant on Table	Bruce Sterling	2017	Comical Near Future SF short story	18.03.2021
541	Pilgrims of the Round World	Bruce Sterling	2014	Historical fiction novella	21.03.2021
542	Esoteric City	Bruce Sterling	2009	Weird novelette	23.03.2021
543	Robot in Roses	Bruce Sterling	2017	SF novelette	26.03.2021
544	Swarm	Bruce Sterling	1982	Transhuman SF novelette	07.10.2021
545	Red Star, Winter Orbit	William Gibson and Bruce Sterling	1983	Alternate History novelette	10.03.2021
546	Life’s a Game	Charles Stross	2015	Near SF short story	15.11.2015
547	Lobsters	Charles Stross	2001	Near future novelette	11.04.2020
548	Rogue Farm	Charles Stross	2003	Transhuman SF short story	03.12.2020
549	The Dog Said Bow-Wow	Michael Swanwick	2001	shortstory	13.08.2014
550	Hello, Said the Stick	Michael Swanwick	2002	shortstory	13.08.2014
551	Slow Life	Michael Swanwick	2002	novelette	13.08.2014
552	Triceratops Summer	Michael Swanwick	2005	shortstory	14.08.2014
553	Tawny Petticoats	Michael Swanwick	2014	fantasy short story	17.03.2015
554	Passage of Earth	Michael Swanwick	2014	First encounter shortstory	26.09.2015
555	The Dead	Michael Swanwick	1996	Zomedy short story	29.03.2020
556	Dragon Slayer	Michael Swanwick	2020	Time Travel Fantasy short story	18.11.2020
557	Tin Marsh	Michael Swanwick	2006	SF novelette	08.12.2020
558	Griffin’s Egg	Michael Swanwick	1991	Hard SF novella	20.01.2021
559	Dogfight	William Gibson and Michael Swanwick	1985	Cyberpunk novelette	11.03.2021
560	We Continue	Ann Leckie and Rachel Swirsky	2020	Fantasy short story	01.11.2020
561	Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)	Rachel Swirsky	2014	SF novella	15.04.2015
562	The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window	Rachel Swirsky	2010	Fantasy novella	01.06.2015
563	Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind	Rachel Swirsky	2007	Post Apocalyptic short story	23.04.2017
564	Root Rot	Fargho Tbakhi	2021	SF novelette	23.01.2021
565	One Day All This Will Be Yours	Adrian Tchaikovsky	2021	Time travel novella	02.03.2021
566	Bootblack	Tade Thompson	2017	Time travel short story	13.05.2021
567	Under the Eaves	Lavie Tidhar	2012	shortstory	07.08.2014
568	The Memcordist	Lavie Tidhar	2012	shortstory	15.10.2014
569	Vladimir Chong Chooses to Die	Lavie Tidhar	2014	shortstory	13.09.2015
570	Strigoi	Lavie Tidhar	2012	SF novelette	25.01.2016
571	Terminal	Lavie Tidhar	2016	SF short story	23.03.2017
572	Help	James Tiptree, Jr.	1968	First Contact SF novelette	10.07.2020
573	The Girl Who Was Plugged In	James Tiptree, Jr.	1973	Proto-Cyberpunk novella	12.10.2015
574	The Man Who Walked Home	James Tiptree, Jr.	1972	short story	14.10.2015
575	And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways	James Tiptree, Jr.	1972	novelette	14.10.2015
576	The Women Men Don’t See	James Tiptree, Jr.	1973	novelette	16.10.2015
577	Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!	James Tiptree, Jr.	1976	short story	16.10.2015
578	Houston, Houston, Do You Read?	James Tiptree, Jr.	1976	SF novella	25.10.2015
579	With Delicate Mad Hands	James Tiptree, Jr.	1981	SF novella	25.10.2015
580	The Last Flight of Doctor Ain	James Tiptree, Jr.	1969	SF short story	31.10.2015
581	A Momentary Taste of Being	James Tiptree, Jr.	1975	SF novella	31.10.2015
582	The Screwfly Solution	James Tiptree, Jr.	1977	SF novelette	31.10.2015
583	Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death	James Tiptree, Jr.	1973	short story	01.11.2015
584	We Who Stole the Dream	James Tiptree, Jr.	1978	SF novelette	01.11.2015
585	On the Last Afternoon	James Tiptree, Jr.	1972	SF novelette	02.11.2015
586	She Waits for All Men Born	James Tiptree, Jr.	1976	SF short story	04.11.2015
587	Slow Music	James Tiptree, Jr.	1980	Post-humanity novella	08.11.2015
588	And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side	James Tiptree, Jr.	1972	SF short story	26.06.2020
589	The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone	James Tiptree, Jr.	1969	Post-apocalyptic short story	27.06.2020
590	The Peacefulness of Vivyan	James Tiptree, Jr.	1971	SF short story	06.07.2020
591	Mamma Come Home	James Tiptree, Jr.	1968	First Contact SF novelette	08.07.2020
592	Painwise	James Tiptree, Jr.	1972	Psychedelic SF novelette	12.07.2020
593	Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion	James Tiptree, Jr.	1969	SF novelette	14.07.2020
594	The Man Doors Said Hello To	James Tiptree, Jr.	1970	Psychedelic short story	16.07.2020
595	Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket	James Tiptree, Jr.	1972	Time travel short story	18.07.2020
596	I’ll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty	James Tiptree, Jr.	1971	Planetary SF short story	22.07.2020
597	I’m Too Big but I Love to Play	James Tiptree, Jr.	1970	First contact novelette	25.07.2020
598	Birth of a Salesman	James Tiptree, Jr.	1968	SF short story	27.07.2020
599	Mother in the Sky with Diamonds	James Tiptree, Jr.	1971	Psychedelic SF novelette	28.07.2020
600	Beam Us Home	James Tiptree, Jr.	1969	SF short story	31.07.2020
601	My Country Is a Ghost	Eugenia Triantafyllou	2020	Ghost short story	05.04.2021
602	Virtual Snapshots	Tlotlo Tsamaase	2016	short story	29.04.2021
603	Mediation	Cadwell Turnbull	2020	Near Future SF short story	29.08.2020
604	The Real World	Steven Utley	2000	SF novelette	13.04.2020
605	The Lily and the Horn	Catherynne M. Valente	2015	Fantasy short story	21.05.2016
606	The Future is Blue	Catherynne M. Valente	2016	SF novelette	02.03.2017
607	White Lines on a Green Field	Catherynne M. Valente	2011	Magical Realism novelette	11.05.2017
608	The Insects of Love	Genevieve Valentine	2014	Weird novelette	06.04.2015
609	The Insects of Love	Genevieve Valentine	2014	Weird short story	29.06.2015
610	Blood, Ash, Braids	Genevieve Valentine	2015	Alternate History short story	16.05.2016
611	Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home	Genevieve Valentine	2016	SF short story	18.03.2017
612	Astrophilia	Carrie Vaughn	2012	shortstory	28.07.2014
613	The Best We Can	Carrie Vaughn	2013	First Contact short story	27.12.2020
614	Jackalope Wives	Ursula Vernon	2014	Magical realism short story	17.04.2015
615	The Tomato Thief	Ursula Vernon	2016	Magical realism novelette	05.05.2021
616	Fast Times at Fairmont High	Vernor Vinge	2001	Near Future SF novella	01.06.2015
617	2 B R 0 2 B	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	1962	dystopian short story	28.11.2020
618	Flying Saucer Rock and Roll	Howard Waldrop	1985	Vintage SF novella	12.03.2020
619	Firebrand	Peter Watts	2013	shortstory	15.12.2014
620	Collateral	Peter Watts	2014	Militaristic SF novelette	15.04.2015
621	The Colonel	Peter Watts	2014	SF novelette	20.09.2015
622	The Things	Peter Watts	2010	First Contact short story	14.12.2020
623	Home Is Where the Heart Is	David Weber	2020	Urban Fantasy novelette	13.11.2020
624	A Martian Odyssey	Stanley G. Weinbaum	1934	SF novelette	01.04.2017
625	Diary of an AssCan	Andy Weir	2015	Hard SF short story	14.05.2020
626	The Star	H.G. Wells	1897	Apocalyptic SF short story	27.03.2017
627	Matriculation	Elle Katharine White	2020	Urban Fantasy novelette	28.09.2020
628	A Catalog of Storms	Fran Wilde	2019	Surrealistic Fantasy short story	03.05.2020
629	Vision Quest	Edward Willett	2020	First Contact SF short story	30.10.2020
630	All the Wrong Places	Sean Williams	2015	SF short story	24.12.2015
631	Daddy’s World	Walter Jon Williams	1999	Posthuman novelette	11.04.2020
632	Surfacing	Walter Jon Williams	1988	First contact novella	05.01.2021
633	The Golden Age	Walter Jon Williams	2014	Weird West novelette	18.01.2021
634	Dinosaurs	Walter Jon Williams	1987	Far future SF novelette	25.01.2021
635	Video Star	Walter Jon Williams	1986	Cyberpunk novelette	26.01.2021
636	The Bad Twin	Walter Jon Williams	1988	Time Travel novelette	29.01.2021
637	The Green Leopard Plague	Walter Jon Williams	2003	Near Future SF novella	02.02.2021
638	Diamonds from Tequila	Walter Jon Williams	2014	Near Future SF novelette	04.02.2021
639	Prayers on the Wind	Walter Jon Williams	1991	Religious SF novelette	06.02.2021
640	Wall, Stone, Craft	Walter Jon Williams	1993	Alternate History novella	07.02.2021
641	Even the Queen	Connie Willis	1992	Near Future short story	24.03.2020
642	The Devil in America	Kai Ashante Wilson	2014	Magical realism novelette	13.04.2015
643	Kaiju maximus®: ‘So Various, So Beautiful, So New’	Kai Ashante Wilson	2015	Fantasy short story	02.05.2016
644	Fireborn	Robert Charles Wilson	2012	shortstory	10.10.2014
645	Utriusque Cosmi	Robert Charles Wilson	2009	Posthuman SF novelette	20.12.2020
646	How the Trick Is Done	A.C. Wise	2019	Ghost story	26.05.2020
647	Open House on Haunted Hill	John Wiswell	2020	Ghost short story	03.04.2021
648	The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories	Gene Wolfe	1970	magical realism short story	08.06.2015
649	The Toy Theater	Gene Wolfe	1971	SF short story	09.06.2015
650	Beech Hill	Gene Wolfe	1972	short story	11.06.2015
651	Hour of Trust	Gene Wolfe	1973	SF novelette	12.06.2015
652	Westwind	Gene Wolfe	1973	Fantasy short story	14.06.2015
653	La Befana	Gene Wolfe	1973	Fantasy short story	14.06.2015
654	The Hero as Werwolf	Gene Wolfe	1975	posthumanity SF short story	16.06.2015
655	Straw	Gene Wolfe	1975	Alternate reality short story	17.06.2015
656	The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton	Gene Wolfe	1977	Steampunk novelette	17.06.2015
657	The Eyeflash Miracles	Gene Wolfe	1976	SF novella	18.06.2015
658	Seven American Nights	Gene Wolfe	1978	SF novella	21.06.2015
659	The Detective of Dreams	Gene Wolfe	1980	Fantasy short story	23.06.2015
660	Kevin Malone	Gene Wolfe	1980	Ghost story	23.06.2015
661	Death of the Island Doctor	Gene Wolfe	1983	Short story	27.06.2015
662	Redbeard	Gene Wolfe	1984	Horror short story	28.06.2015
663	The Boy Who Hooked the Sun	Gene Wolfe	1985	Fantasy short story	28.06.2015
664	A Cabin on the Coast	Gene Wolfe	1981	Magical realism short story	05.07.2015
665	Bed and Breakfast	Gene Wolfe	1996	Fantasy short story	05.07.2015
666	Petting Zoo	Gene Wolfe	1997	SF short story	05.07.2015
667	The Tree Is My Hat	Gene Wolfe	1999	Horror novelette	05.07.2015
668	Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?	Gene Wolfe	1999	Short story	05.07.2015
669	Sparklybits	Nick Wolven	2020	Near Future SF short story	16.08.2020
670	The Fisher Queen	Alyssa Wong	2014	Weird short story	17.04.2015
671	You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay	Alyssa Wong	2016	Weird novelette	08.03.2017
672	Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers	Alyssa Wong	2015	Vampire short story	20.06.2017
673	The Farships Fall to Nowhere	John C Wright	2020	Generation ship short story	02.11.2020
674	The Exile	JY Yang	2020	Science Fantasy short story	11.10.2020
675	Charlotte and the Demon Who Swam Through the Grass	Mercedes M. Yardley	2014	Fantasy short story	07.09.2020
676	Hugo/The Archronology of Love	Caroline M. Yoachim	2019	SF novelette	22.05.2020
677	Shadow Prisons	Caroline M. Yoachim	2020	Dystopian novelette	11.04.2021
678	Fable	Charles Yu	2016	Fairy tale short story	25.03.2017
679	The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight	E. Lily Yu	2016	Fairy tale short story	25.03.2017
680	The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth	Roger Zelazny	1965	novelette	17.10.2014
681	The Keys to December	Roger Zelazny	1966	novelette	17.10.2014
682	A Rose for Ecclesiastes	Roger Zelazny	1963	novelette	18.10.2014
683	Devil Car	Roger Zelazny	1965	shortstory	18.10.2014
684	This Mortal Mountain	Roger Zelazny	1967	novelette	18.10.2014
685	This Moment of the Storm	Roger Zelazny	1966	novelette	19.10.2014
686	Divine Madness	Roger Zelazny	1966	shortstory	19.10.2014
687	Love is an Imaginary Number	Roger Zelazny	1966	shortstory	19.10.2014

The Fall of Gondolin • 2018 • Fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

This is the story of the Evening Star, the Venus, and how it came to appear in the sky.

Do you remember Galadriel telling Frodo “‘In this phial [..] is caught the light of Eärendil’s star“, and Elrond telling of his father Eärendil? Eärendil gets mentioned around a dozen times in the Lord of the Rings, he is in the center of Tolkien’s writings. Tolkien’s first poet from 1914 talks about him, and the first of the Great Tales, the Fall of Gondolin, which Tolkien wrote during sick-leave from the hells of WWI in 1917, leads ultimately to him.

Eärendil is the son of human Tuor and Elven-lady Idril, born and raised in Gondolin, rescued from the annihilation of this last of the Elven cities, acquiring one of the Silmaril gems by marrying Elwing, and setting out into the night sky on his boat, shining as a newborn star.

But all this is only an afterthought of the real story, the one about his father Tuor:

Tuor got a mission from sea-god Ulmo to find the hidden city Gondolin and bid King Turgon to take action before their enemy Morgoth would destroy them. 

After a long and painful search, Tuor found the city.

Now, king Turgon didn’t follow his bidding and thought that the enemy would never find the city. Instead, he welcomed Tuor and made him one of his own, let him even marry his own daughter Idril. 

Men marrying Elven maids? We know of only three such pairs in Tolkien’s works: Beren and Luthien, Aragorn and Arwen, and Tuor with Idril. They get a child Eärendil, live happily for eleven years.

But then Melkor strikes with all his might: Thousands of Orcs, numerous Balrogs, and mechanical, fire-spitting dragons. A long battle follows, but the Elven are hammered, only a few can flee through a tunnel.

On their way out, they are waylaid by a Balrog, but Glorfindel (yes, the same one who rescues Frodo and kills the Ring Wraiths in the flood of River Bruinen) sacrifices himself:

This book is also a Beginning and an End.

It is a Beginning, because it was the very first prose story that Tolkien ever wrote. Before this, he composed some poems. It is also the first of three Great Tales. The next one, written also in 1917, was Beren and Luthien, and directly after that The Children of Hurin. These three stories “represented [..] the full extent of my father’s ‘imagined world’,” as Christopher Tolkien put it. It wasn’t the First Age of Middle-Earth at the time, 

for there was as yet no Second Age, nor Third Age; there was no Numenor, no hobbits, and of course no Ring. 

It is also an End, because it was the very last book that J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher edited at the age of 93, two years before he passed away at 16. January 2020. Without Christopher, we wouldn’t have the Silmarillion and all the other tales of Middle Earth’s First and Second Age. 

This edition doesn’t have any new material from J.R.R. Tolkien. The various fragments and variations of the same tale has been published before in the Lost Tales and the History of Middle Earth. New is the side-by-side arrangement in one place, leading to a easy comparison. New are some of Christopher’s commentary, comparisons, and analysis. Add to that the awesome colour plates by Alan Lee, his interior illustrations, and the cover vignette showing a swan helm before the towers of Gondolin and fire breathing dragons.

If you haven’t read the Silmarillion, this book won’t do you any good. But if you want to get adventure, gods, a romance, betrayal, a huge battle with monsters and valiant heroes, and a good portion mythology, and all that within some 150 pages, then this might be for you. Just don’t expect a finished story, it’s spread over five largely different versions, written and revised over half a century of JRRT’s productive period. I don’t know if I should recommend it to you, your mileage will vary.

This is also the 1,000th post at my blog. 

As a die-hard Tolkien fan, this book means the world for me. 

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth • 2003 • Biography by John Garth

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

One key to understand The Lord of the Rings and all the other great works by Tolkien is his involvement in the First World War. Elements like a last minute rescue of the Rohirrim, or the role of Samwise Gamgee, or the mechanical beasts entering the battle of Gondolin clearly refer to his experience in the Battle of the Somme. 

Tolkien was there in the horrors of the trenches, as a Second Lieutenant of the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers, from June to October 1916. He survived because he caught trench fever, returned to England reporting sick and never returned to action.

Why doesn’t the cover illustrate those trenches, then, why isn’t there a tank, or soldiers in battle gear running through trenches? The photo is well-chosen, because it shows Tolkien as part of his beloved community at Exeter College. Consider, that Tolkien wasn’t one of the first to be deployed as soldier, but decided to finish his degree in university first.  

The core of this biography focuses on Tolkien’s ways through the war. John Garth gives a fascinating portray, disentangles the complicated movements of WWI campaigns, and fleshes out how his schoolfriends of the T.C.B.S. club fared during the war. It is a highly involved and intense research into not easily accessible sources, and the author mastered them in a way which is accessible to a broader public. 

One can literally watch the ideas leading to the Silmarillion coming to life. The author embeds and explains several poems from Tolkien and his friends through these early years. Tolkien started his mythology reluctantly before the Battle of the Somme. But only after he returned home, his ideas came to fruition in a kind of narrative explosion. His prose work started during his rehabilitation from trench fever back home in England, beginning with The Fall of Gondolin, continued with Beren and Luthien, and finished his Great Tales with The Children of Hurin. There was no idea of the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings, and there was no Second or Third Age. 

John Garth brings all this to life in a thorough amount of details. He contextualizes Tolkien as a war author. Where other authors of his generation like Graves, Sassoon, or Owen created a far more pessimistic, modern poetry, Tolkien reflected the fighting differently, staying with the naturalistic romances, taking a stance against the disenchantment of his time.

The last part of the book concentrates on the effects on Tolkien’s later Middle Earth writings, how formative they were, and how his experiences influenced the world he created. Although Tolkien himself hated such interpretation, Garth’s analysis makes sense to me. 

A huge mass of literary references and notes are given at the end of the book. Garth’s choice to not add footnote numbers in the text was a good one. The book finishes with twelve pages of bibliography and a handy index. More interesting to the casual reader will be the middle part with several photos of Tolkien, and his Exeter friends of the T.C.B.S, and the maps illustrating the movements of the Battle of the Somme.

You can see that this is not “yet another” Tolkien biography. It is a necessary one, adding much to the essential biography from Carpenter. The Mythopoeic Society honored the work with an Award for Inklings Study. 

For further reading of the author, consider his Tolkien at Exeter College (review), and his newer Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-Earth (which I haven’t read, yet).

Phat Loot! Level up for library!

Today is my cake day, and I got me some phat loot. Two new Tolkien books!

• The Nature of Middle Earth (which has just been published), the violet binding and
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the spring green binding

third shelf from top with the two new books

I had to reorder my library to provide those two beauties a proper place. Which meant a full new shelf in this case, shuffling some books around.

left shelves of my library

top shelf

second shelf from top

fourth shelf from top