ICYMI – Stories I’ve Read (and you may like too)

Tracking the novels and stories I’ve read since 2016. Maybe you’ll find something you missed and be glad you found it…

Last Updated: February 2, 2018

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• Fiction
  • Novels
  • Anthologies
  • Collections
  • Novellas
  • Novelettes
  • Short Fiction
• Poetry
• Notes

Fiction

Novels

Baker, Mishell

• Borderline (2016)

Butler, Octavia

• Mind of My Mind (1977)
• Wild Seed (1980)

Hiller, Andrew

• A Halo of Mushrooms (2015)

Jemisin, N.K.

• The Obelisk Gate (Orbit, 2016)
• The Stone Sky (Orbit, 2017)

Liu, Ken

• The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty, Book 2)

Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

• Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)

Wendig, Chuck

• Zer0s (2015)

Anthologies

Lemberg, Rose (ed)

• An Alphabet of Embers (2016)

Collections

de Bodard, Aliette

• In Morningstar’s Shadow: Dominion of the Fallen Stories (2015)

Liu, Ken

• Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016)

Novellas

Avery, Sarah

• “The Imlen Brat” (2016)

Chwedyk, Richard

• “The Man Who Put the Bomp” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2017)

Okorafor, Nnedi

• “Binti: Home” (January 2017)
• “Binti” (Tor.com, September 22, 2015)

Pinsker, Sarah

• “And Then There Were (N-One)” (Uncanny, Issue 15, March/April 2017)

Prasad, Vina Jie-Min

• “A Series of Steaks” (Clarkesworld, Issue 124, January 2017)

Shu, Bao

• “Everybody Loves Charles” (Translated by Ken Liu, Clarkesworld, January 2016)

Novelettes

Abercrombie, Joe

• “Tough Times All Over” (Reprint, Clarkesworld, May 2016)

Baker, Mishell

• “Fire in the Haze” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, July 7, 2016)

Cowdrey, Albert E.

• “The Avenger” (FSF, March 2017)

Gilman, Carolyn Ives

• “Touring with the Alien” (Clarkesworld, April 2016)

• “Driverless” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2017)

Hurley, Kameron

• “The Plague Givers” (Patreon Collection 1, 2016; Originally published in Uncanny, Issue 10, May/June 2016 — link is to Uncanny version)

Kloster, Gary

• “Interchange” (Clarkesworld, Issue 124, January 2017)

Larson, Rich

• “The Ghost Ship Anastasia” (Clarkesworld, Issue 124, January 2017)
• “Extraction Request” (Clarkesworld, January 2016)

Lewis, L.D.

• “Chesirah” (Fiyah, Issue 1, Winter 2017)

Lindholm, Megan

• “Old Paint” (Reprint, Clarkesworld, January 2016)

Patterson, Irette Y.

• “Survival Lies” (Fiyah, Issue 5, Winter 2018)

Qiufan, Chen

• “Balin” (Translated by Ken Liu, Clarkesworld, April 2016)

Silverberg, Robert

• “The True Vintage of Eruzine Thale” (Reprint, Clarkesworld, January 2016)

Swirsky, Rachel

• “Love is Never Still” (Uncanny, March 2016)

Szpara, K. M.

• “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” (Uncanny, Issue 16, May/June 2017)

Tidhar, Lavie

• “Agent of V.A.L.I.S.” (Apex, March 2016)

Wolven, Nick

• “In the Midst of Life” (Clarkesworld, February 2016)

Xen

• “Cracks” (Fiyah, Issue 3, Summer 2017)

Short Fiction

Anderson, K.G.

• “Rowboat” (Metamorphosis, February 2016)

Arnason, Eleanor

• “Daisy” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2017)

Ash, Patricia

• “Only a Little One” (Daily Science Fiction, April 28, 2016)

Baker, Mishell

• “God Doesn’t Make Mistakes” (Arcadia Project Bulletin, July 15, 2016)
• “Throwing Stones” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, July 2010)

Ball, Peter M.

• “Counting Down” (Daily Science Fiction, March 3, 2017)

Barnett, Barbara A.

• “43 Responses to ‘In Memory of Dr. Alexandra Nako‘” (Daily Science Fiction, February 5, 2016)

Bear, Elizabeth

• “Dolly” (Apex, March 2016)

Belilovsky, Anatoly

• “Bottled Up” (Nature, November 13, 2013)

Bharathan, Deepak

• “A Big Question” (Daily Science Fiction, January 24, 2017)

Bolander, Bo

• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” (Uncanny, Issue 13, November/December 2016)

Brissett, Jennifer Marie

• “The Breeze in the Boughs” (Fiyah, Issue 3, Summer 2017)

Broaddus, Maurice

• “Vade Retro Satana” (Fiyah, Issue 2, Spring 2017)

Cade, Octavia

• “Crown of Thorns” (Clarkesworld, Issues 126, March 2017)

Caldwell, Christopher

• “The Beekeeper’s Garden” (Fiyah, Issue 2, Spring 2017)

Campeche, Araisbo

• “First Blink” (Daily Science Fiction, January 3, 2017)

Cervantes, Angus

• “Bad News from the Future” (Metaphorosis, March 17, 2017)

Chan, Stephanie

• “Aqua Mirabilis” (Anathema, Issue 1, April 2017)

Chu, John

• “Restore the Heart into Love” (Uncanny Magazine, May/June 2015)
• “The Water that Falls on You from Nowhere” (Tor.com, February 2013)

Clark, C. L.

• “Sisyphus” (Fiyah, Issue 4, Fall 2017)

Conley, Zack

• “A Bottle of the Good Stuff” (Daily Science Fiction, January 3, 2017)

de Bodard, Aliette

• “Lullaby for a Lost World” (Tor.com, June 2016)

De Winter, Gunnar

• “Mirror Mirror” (Daily Science Fiction, February 22, 2017)

Dellamonica, A.M.

• “The Color of Paradox” (Tor.com, June 2014)

Desir, Monique L.

• “Bondye Bon” (Fiyah, Issue 5, Winter 2018)

Dunlap, Wendy

• “Revival” (Fiyah, Issue 1, Winter 2017)

Ebert, Charles

• “The Face of Atrocity” (Kaleidotrope, Spring 2015)

Edwards, Malon

• “Long Time Lurker, First Time Bomber” (Fiyah, Issue 1, Winter 2017)

El-Mohtar, Amal

• “Pockets” (Uncanny Magazine, January 2015)

Fay, Shannon

• “Goes Both Ways” (Daily Science Fiction, January 10, 2017)

Fischer, Steven

• “The Earth Is Flat, and I Am No One” (Daily Science Fiction, March 7, 2017)

Friedman, Arielle

• “Forgetting How to Fly” (Daily Science Fiction, April 6, 2016)

Gage, Joshua

• “The Weight of Kanzashi” (Diabolical Plots, June 2016)

Galloway, V.H.

• “Sisi Je Kuisha (We Have Ended)” (Fiyah, Issue 1, Winter 2017)

Gomez, Rodney

• “Allegory of the Woman from the Earth” (Apex, March 2016)

Gordon, Melody

• “Excavate”  (Fiyah, Issue 4, Fall 2017)

Goslee, Sarah

• “Balance Point” (Fireside, April 2017)
• “The Kingfisher Manifesto“ (Fireside, February 2016)

Harold, Elliotte Rusty

• “Classified Ads” (Daily Science Fiction, March 21, 2016)

Harrington, Emmalia

• “Barbara in the Frame” (Fiyah, Issue 4, Fall 2017)

Hazra, Arundhati

• “The Toymaker’s Daughter” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2017)

Heermann, Travis

• “Screaming Without a Mouth” (Apex, March 2016)

Hellisen, Cat

• “A Green Silk Dress and a Wedding-Death” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2017)

Heuer, Christopher Jon

• “The Visit” (Daily Science Fiction, March 28, 2016)

Hughes, Matthew

• “Ten Half-Pennies” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2017)

Hurley, Kameron

• “The Heart is Eaten Last” (Patreon, February 2016)

Iriarte, Jose Pablo

• “The Curse of Giants” (Daily Science Fiction, March 7, 2016)

Juettner, Carie

• “Reap” (Daily Science Fiction, January 2, 2017)

Khaw, Cassandra

• “Breathe” (Clarkesworld, May 2016)

Kinney, Benjamin C.

• “The Time Cookie Wars” (Flash Fiction Online, August 2016)
• “The First Confirmed Case of Non-Corporeal Recursion: Patient Anita R.” (Strange Horizons, June 2016)
• “Meltwater” (Strange Horizons, March 2016)

Kozma, Andrew

• “When We Last Left” (Daily Science Fiction, March 3, 2016)

Kritzer, Naomi

• “Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty’s Place Cafe” (Clarkesworld, Issue 126, March 2017)

Lackey, Jamie

• “The Family Ghost” (Daily Science Fiction, March 30, 2017)

Lake, Jay and Ruth Nesvold

• “Harlekin” (Daily Science Fiction, March 2, 2016)

Lambert, Brent

• “Blood Song” (Anathema, Issue 1, April 2017)
• “Police Magic” (Fiyah, Issue 1, Winter 2017)

Ledbetter, William

• “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” (Daily Science Fiction, March 21, 2017)

Lege, Tolle

• “How Like the Ring” (Daily Science Fiction, January 17, 2017)

Lore, Danny

• “The Last Exorcist” (Fiyah, Issue 3, Summer 2017)

Lu, S. Qiouyi

• “A Complex Filament of Light” (Anathema, Issue 1, April 2017)

Lynwander, Amy

• “Making the Connection” (Allegory, May 2017)

Martine, Arkady

• “When the Fall is All That is Left” (Apex, October 2015)

McAuley, Paul

• “The Fixer” (Clarkesworld, February 2016)

McHugh, Bob

• “We’ve Lied” (Daily Science Fiction, March 24, 2016)

Miller, Sam J.

• “Things with Beards” (Clarkesworld, June 2016)

Moore, L. H.

• “With These Hands” (Fiyah, Issue 5, January 2018)

Moraine, Sunny

• “A Heap of Broken Images” (Clarkesworld, May 2016)

Morris, Stephanie Malia

• “Forty Acres and a Mule” (Fiyah, Issue 4, Fall 2017)

Muenzler, Michelle

• “The Way We Fall” (Daily Science Fiction, January 25, 2017)

Muhammad-Ali, Khaalidah

• “Talking to Cancer” (Fiyah, Issue 2, Spring 2017)

Myers, Barbara L. W.

• “We Laugh in its Face” (Fiyah, Issue 2, April 2017)

Ness, Mari

• “The Lion” (Daily Science Fiction, March 6, 2017)

Nesvold, Ruth and Jay Lake

• “Golden Unicorn” (Daily Science Fiction, February 17, 2016)

Nichols, Russell

• “The Hard Shell” (Fiyah, Issue 2, April 2017)

Ogden, Aimee

• “Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Air, Goodnight Night Noises Everywhere” (Daily Science Fiction, January 13, 2017)

Olofintuade, Ayodele

• “The Woman With a Thousand Stars in Her Hair” (Anathema, Issue 1, April 2017)

Park, J. B.

• “Real Ghosts” (Clarkesworld, Issue, 126, March 2017)

Patel, Sunil

• “Girl in Blue Dress” (Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, January/February, 2016)
• “The Man Who Saved Manhattan” (Galaxy’s Edge, March 2016)
• “Marcie’s Waffles are the Best in Town” (Reprint, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, May-June 2016)

Patterson, Jez

• “Dangers of Do-Gooding” (Daily Science Fiction, January 25, 2017)

Pearce, Josh

• “Falling in Love with Martians and Machines” (Clarkesworld, Issue 135, December 2017)

Pendergast, J.D.

• “The Broken Pieces Make Her Sparkle” (Daily Science Fiction, January 6, 2017)

Pi, Tony

• “Swan’s Grace” (Anathema, Issue 1, April 2017)

Powers, Beth

• “The Day the Future Invaded” (Daily Science Fiction, June 2, 2016)

Prell, Lettie

• “Crossing LaSalle” (Clarkesworld, Issue 135, December 2017)
• “Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities” (Clarkesworld, Issue 124, January 2017)

Rambo, Cat

• “Left Behind” (Clarkesworld, May 2016)

Reed, Robert

• “Two Ways of Living” (Clarkesworld, Issue 126, March 2017)
• “I Like This Grandma Better Than the Old One” (Daily Science Fiction, March 18, 2016)
• “The Algorithms of Value” (Clarkesworld, January 2016)

Reinehold, James

• “Extra Pickles for the End of the World” (Daily Science Fiction, January 12, 2017)

Robins, Lane

• “Tin and Mercury, Gilt and Glass” (Daily Science Fiction, January 2016)

Ronald, Fraser

• “When She Was Five” (Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, May-June 2016)

Ronald, Margaret

• “And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices” (Clarkesworld, June 2016)

Ross, Arnica

• “Riley and Robot”  (Fiyah, Issue 4, Fall 2017)

Roy, Lauren M.

• “In Memoriam: Lady Fantastic” (Fireside Fiction, July 2016)

Royce, Eden

• “Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment” (Fiyah, Issue 2, Spring 2017)

Rustad, A. Merc

• “Finding Home” (Reprint, Lightspeed, July 2016)

Sanders, DaVaun

• “The Shade Caller” (Fiyah, Issue 1, Winter 2017)

Sanford, Jason

• “Death Flowers of Never-Forgotten Love” (Apex, March 2016)

Satifka, Erica

• “Attending Your Own Funeral: An Etiquette Guide” (Daily Science Fiction, March 27, 2017):
• “Human Resources” (Fireside, January 2016)
• “Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind” (Lightspeed, June 2015)

Schaefer, Peter A.

• “Fight of the Century” (Daily Science Fiction, January 5, 2017)

Shawl, Nisi

• “Cruel Sister” (Reprint, Nightmare Magazine, September 22, 2016)

Sidari, Joseph

• “Final Revision” (Daily Science Fiction, February 10, 2016)

Sjunneson-Henry, Elsa

• “A Place Out of Time” (Fireside Fiction, June 2016)

Spires, D. A. Xuaolin

• “Prasetyo Plastics” (Clarkesworld, Issue 134, November 2017)

Sriduangkaew, Benjanum

• “That Which Stands Tends Toward Free Fall” (Clarkesworld, February 2016)

Talabi, Wole

• “Home is Where my Mother’s Heart is Buried” (Fiyah, Issue 2, Spring 2017)

Thakrar, Shveta

• “Hungry” (The Hanging Garden, August 2016)
• “The Shadow Collector” (Uncanny, March 2016)

Theodoridou, Natalia

• “The Rains on Mars” (Clarkesworld, Issue 135, December 2017)

Thompson, Sydnee

• “Toward the Sun” (Fiyah, Issue 3, Summer 2017)

Tobler, E. Catherine

• “The Abduction of Europa” (Clarkesworld, January 2016)

Trent, Brian

• “A Thousand Deaths Through Flesh and Stone” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2017)

Walker, Susan

• “Retrieval” (Clarkesworld, Issue 134, November 2017)

Wesley, E. E.

• “One Game to the Next“(Daily Science Fiction, March 13, 2017)

Wong, Alyssa

• “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” (Nightmare Magazine, October 2015)

Young, Nicola

• “Empath” (Daily Science Fiction, January 19, 2017)

Poetry

• “Spacemail Only” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2017)

Pekar, Amanda

• “The Galatea” (Apex, January 2017)

Trotta, Ali

• “The Persecution of Witches” (Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2016)

Notes

If you hadn’t noticed, I list the stories under each author is descending order by date of publication.

Also, I try to call out reprints and translations (with translator’s name).

Here’s the breakdowns as I define them here and now:

• Novel: 40,000+ words
• Novellas: 17,500 – 39,999 words
• Novelette: 7,500 – 17,499 words
• Short Story: 1,500 – 7,499 words
• Flash Fiction: 1 – 1,499 words

Why start with “1”? ‘Cause a story in zero words is art, not literature.

(Disclosure: Since I’m not always on top of stories the instant they are published, you’ll notice some of these pieces aren’t current year, and thus likely not eligible for most awards at the end of the day…year.)