Locus Recommended Online Fiction
Here is a selection from this year’s Locus Recommended Reading List with links to online content. If you spot anything that I’ve left off, please contact me and I’ll add it in.
Novella
- “Kiss Me Twice“, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s)
- “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary“, Ken Liu (Panverse Three)
- Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)
Novelette
- ‘‘The Silver Wind’’, Nina Allan (Interzone 3-4/11)
- ‘‘Six Months, Three Days’’, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 6/8/11)
- ‘‘Queen of Atlantis’’, Sarah Rees Brennan (Subterranean Summer ’11)
- ‘‘The Copenhagen Interpretation’’, Paul Cornell (Asimov’s 7/11)
- ‘‘Bronsky’s Dates with Death’’, Peter David (F&SF 7-8/11)
- ‘‘The Iron Shirts’’, Michael F. Flynn (Tor.com 5/4/11)
- ‘‘A Long Walk Home’’, Jay Lake (Subterranean Winter ’11)
- ‘‘Ghostweight’’, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/11)
- ‘‘The Boneless One’’, Alec Nevala-Lee (Analog 11/11)
- ‘‘The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)’’, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 3/11)
- ‘‘A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong’’, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Winter ’11)
- ‘‘The Dala Horse’’, Michael Swanwick (Tor.com 7/13/11)
- ‘‘White Lines on a Green Field’’, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean Fall ’11)
Short Story
- ‘‘Absinthe Fish’’, M. David Blake (Bull Spec Spring ’11)
- ‘‘∞°’’, Darin Bradley (Electric Velocipede Fall ’10)
- “The Beancounter’s Cat“, Damien Broderick (Eclipse Four)
- ‘‘Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin’’, Adam Calloway (Beneath Ceaseless Skies7/14/11)
- ‘‘Breaking the Ice’’, Thoraiya Dyer (Cosmos 2-3/11)
- ‘‘Younger Women’’, Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean Summer ’11)
- “Movement“, Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s 3/11)
- ‘‘Canterbury Hollow’’, Chris Lawson (F&SF 1-2/11)
- ‘‘Valley of the Girls’’, Kelly Link (Subterranean Summer ’11)
- “The Paper Menagerie“, Ken Liu (F&SF, 3-4/11)
- ‘‘Tying Knots’’, Ken Liu (Clarkesworld 1/11)
- ‘‘All That Touches the Air’’, An Owomayela (Lightspeed 4/11)
- ‘‘Ragnarok’’, Paul Park (Tor.com 4/17/11)
- ‘‘The Immortality Game’’, Cat Rambo (Fantasy 6/11)
- ‘‘Woman Leaves Room’’, Robert Reed (Lightspeed 3/11)
- ‘‘The Onset of a Paranormal Romance’’, Bruce Sterling (Flurb Fall/Winter ’11)
- ‘‘Red Dawn: A Chow Mein Western’’, Lavie Tidhar (Fantasy 11/11)
- ‘‘The Smell of Orange Groves’’, Lavie Tidhar (Clarkesworld 11/11)
- ‘‘The Bread We Eat in Dreams’’, Catherynne M. Valente (Apex 11/11)
- ‘‘The Sandal-Bride’’, Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy 3/11)
- ‘‘The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees’’, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)
Two of my stories on the list are also available online:
“The Paper Menagerie”, by Ken Liu, reprinted at Suvudu: http://sf-fantasy.suvudu.com/2011/07/new-story-from-fantasy-science-fiction-magazine-2.html
“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary”, by Ken Liu, available on my web site as a free PDF courtesy of Panverse Publishing: http://kenliu.name/binary/liu_the_man_who_ended_history.pdf
Got them added, thanks Ken!
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Yes, you’re missing a few. I made a list of these last week, you are missing:
Kiss Me Twice
‘The Silver Wind’ (PDF), Nina Allan (Interzone 3-4/11)
‘The Copenhagen Interpretation’ (PDF), Paul Cornell (Asimov’s 7/11)
‘Bronsky’s Dates with Death’ (PDF), Peter David (F&SF 7-8/11)
‘The Cold Step Beyond’, Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s 6/11)
‘’The Boneless One’, Alec Nevala-Lee (Analog 11/11)
‘Canterbury Hollow’, Chris Lawson (F&SF 1-2/11)
‘Absinthe Fish’, M. David Blake (Bull Spec Spring ’11)
Thanks Liz! Sorry I’m behind the curve on this.
Hi, Karen.
A correction: Darin’s Electric Velocipede story is “∞°” with a degree symbol.
Thanks,
Anne S. Zanoni
Managing editor, Electric Velocipede
Anne – I got it fixed here. You may also want to contact Mark Kelly on the main Locus Online site to get it fixed on the official list posting. Thanks!
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I made a list of the stories available in podcast form (that I knew about) here:
http://audiblesff.tumblr.com/post/16974139975/feature-friday-locus-magazines-2011-recommended
(Which also lists the novels and books which have audiobooks that I know about.)
At least some of the short stories in the collections and anthologies are also available online and/or in podcast form, but I didn’t go down that road.
‘‘Kiss Me Twice’’, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 6/11) is only an excerpt – when you get to the bottom, you see “Be sure to read the exciting conclusion in our June issue on sale now.”
Ouch, you are quite right. I missed that when I scanned through it. I’ve removed it now, thanks!
Now MR Kowal’s “Kiss Me Twice” is available online: http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/i-am-43-today-have-a-novella-as-a-party-favor/
Good catch Roger, I’ve updated the list. Thanks!
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There are some nice stories here.
MacLeod’s “A COLD STEP BEYOND is only partial as well – unfortunately!
Sorry about that Bob. Thanks for the update!