#FandSF #FavoriteStories #ScienceFiction #Fantasy Sep/Oct 2023
If I Should Fall Behind by Douglas Smith
The Trolley Problem becomes even more problematic when it is the whole universe on the track and the love of your life on the siding, but our hero finds a rather unique solution.
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Growths by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The ethical dilemma of whether to change something in your child that might make their life easier, but fundamentally alter who they are.
This very short story kept me thinking for some days after reading.
#FandSF #FavoriteStories #ScienceFiction #Fantasy Sep/Oct 2023
Sugar Steak by Jenny Kiefer
Flossing won’t help much after a meal of sugar steak.
Pairs well with Shinya Tsukamoto’s 1989 body-horror film “Tetsuo: The Iron Man.”
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On the Matter of Homo Sapiens by Kel Coleman
Three robots on a geocache scavenger hunt left by extinct humans discuss the ethics of bringing back homo sapiens.
Would make for a good episode of Love, Death and Robots.
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Night Haul by #AndrewCrowley
Dangerous cargo, but there is no safe route detour for this trucker. Dread and terror on the long haul road.
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Teatro Anatomico by #GettyHesse
The student delivers an anatomical lesson to her professor. Is the professor capable of learning?
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Upstairs by #TessaYang
Movin’ on up to the ultimate gated community comes with very mixed feelings and changes in the family dynamics. Can Sadie cope?
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My Embroidery Stitches Are Me by #AHumphreyLanham
Some mental and physical scars are so deep and intense they become simultaneously real and metaphorical.
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To Pluck a Twisted String by #AnneLeonard
Art speaks truth to power, which is why they seek to control and destroy. But art has many ways of speaking and cannot be denied.
A story for our times.
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Mixtapes From Neptune by #KarterMycroft
Music is one of the most potent evokers of memory…even in the depths of a gas giant.
Strangely, I read this between sets at a music festival with mixtape bumper music playing. Memories…
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Three Sisters Syzygy by Christopher Mark Rose @ChrisRose
Syzygy:
- yoked together (Greek)
- three celestial bodies in a line (astronomy)
- union of opposites (Carl Jung)
This story: all of the above
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What We Found In The Forest by #PhoebeWood
During a rite of passage, you don’t need the passage nor the rite; you just need to discover something that had been inside you all along. A prose poem.
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Sort Code by #ChrisBarnham
A graceful pas de deus back and forth through the corridors of time looking for an elusive something.
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Bayanihan by #MaricarMacario
You can go home again, but everything—you or home?—has changed. Good thing grandmas are the same every where and when. An immigrant song for everyone.
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Shining Shore by #MaxFirehammer
Don’t let the happy title fool you; this seaside village isn’t as quiet as it seems. An unsettling body-horror tale that will leave you squirming.
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The Break-In by #KristineKathrynRusch
Raiders try to secure high-tech weaponry being auctioned off as relics and objects of art.
Set in the Diving universe and a sequel to The Death Hole Bunker with a big TO-BE-CONTINUED at the end.
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Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel by #DerekKünsken
The author makes a convincing argument that evolutionary pressures may—indeed, must!— lead to time travel being used to adapt to environmental conditions.
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The Dead Letter Office by David Erik Nelson @dave0
doxxed sorter woman
frosty dim lit boiler room
a gift from Satan
A disturbingly creepy story of defilement, retribution and closure.
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In the Fox’s House by #LisaGoldstein
Same situation, but different species; a woman finds herself facing a very familiar decision. Will she have the opportunity to realize it in time to make a better choice?
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Tears Down the Wall by #MichèleLaframboise
The rent is too damn high!
- Jimmy McMillan
In a world controlled by rentiers, the city is a great place to work and play…if you can afford a flat. Sleeping in a tent on the side of a high rise is affordable, but accidents—and murder—can happen.
