Locus Recommended Short Fiction Links

As a complement to the overall Locus Recommended Reading List, I like to collect all the short fiction that’s easily available online here. Please let me know if any other stories are or become available, and I’ll update the list as soon as possible.

Novellas

• “In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns”, Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s 1/12)
• “Twenty Lights to ‘The Land of Snow’“, Michael Bishop (Going Interstellar)
• “The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future“, Jay Lake (Subterranean Spring ’12)
• “Let Maps to Others“, K. J. Parker (Subterranean Summer ’12)
• The Boolean Gate, Walter Jon Williams (Subterranean)

Novelettes

• “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery“, Eleanor Arnason (Eclipse Online 11/12/12)
• “The Witch of Duva: A Ravkan Folk Tale“, Leigh Bardugo (Tor.com 6/6/12)
• “Frontier Death Song” Laird Barron (Nightmare 10/12)
• “Invisible Men“, Christopher Barzak (Eclipse Online 12/10/12)
• “Faster Gun“, Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 8/8/12)
• “The Telling” Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
• “The Ghosts of Christmas“, Paul Cornell (Tor.com 12/19/12)
• “The Keats Variation” K. M. Ferebee (Strange Horizons 6/4/12-6/11/12)
• “The Castle that Jack Built“, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
• “The Grinnell Method“, Molly Gloss (Strange Horizons 9/3/12-9/10/12)
• “Game” Maria Dahvana Headley (Subterranean Fall ’12)
• “Scry” Anne Ivy (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/8/12)
• “The Lady Astronaut of Mars“, Mary Robinette Kowal (Rip-Off!)
• “Unsilenced“, Karalynn Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/12)
• “The Battle of Candle Arc“, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 10/12)
• “Arbeitskraft”, Nick Mamatas (The Mammoth Book of Steampunk)
• “Swift, Brutal Retaliation“, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)
• “One Little Room An Everywhere“, K. J. Parker (Eclipse Online 10/22/12)
• “In the Palace of the Jade Lion“, Richard Parks (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 7/26/12)
• “The Contrary Gardener“, Christopher Rowe (Eclipse Online 10/8/12)
• “Sinking Among Lilies“, Cory Skerry (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/5/12)
• “Astrophilia“, Carrie Vaughn (Clarkesworld 7/12)

Short Stories

• “Things Greater Than Love“, Kate Bachus (Strange Horizons 3/19/12)
• “Scattered Along the River of Heaven“, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 1/12)
• “Immersion“, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
• “The Ballad of the Wayfaring Stranger and the Dead Man’s Whore“, Sean Demory (Self published 4/12)
• “England Under the White Witch“, Theodora Goss (Clarkesworld 10/12)
• “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream“, Maria Dahana Headley (Lightspeed 7/12)
• “Beside Calais“, Samantha Henderson (Strange Horizons 5/14/12)
• “The Least of the Deathly Arts“, Kat Howard (Subterranean Winter ’12)
• “Over the Waves“, Louise Hughes (Strange Horizons 8/13/12)
• “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight“, Xia Jen (Ken Liu, translator) (Clarkesworld 2/12)
• “Mantis Wives“, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/12)
• “Uncle Flower’s Homecoming Waltz“, Marissa K. Lingen (Tor.com 2/12)
• “Blue Lace Agate“, Sarah Monette (Lightspeed 1/12)
• “About Fairies“, Pat Murphy (Tor.com 5/12)
• “Nightside on Callisto“, Linda Nagata (Lightspeed 5/12)
• “Prayer“, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld 5/12)
• “Dumb Lucy”, Robert Shearman (Magic)
• “Joke in Four Panels” AKA “Madalyn Morgan“, Robert Shearman (www.justsosospecial.com)
• “Ruminations in an Alien Tongue“, Vandana Singh (Lightspeed 4/12)
• “The Memcordist“, Lavie Tidhar (Eclipse Online 12/24/12)
• “(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky“, E. Catherine Tobler (Clarkesworld 11/12)
• “A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones“, Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld 10/12)