It’s time for another round of short story recommendations. I’m doing thing a bit differently this time, or rather, more like I used to back when I started doing these reviews way back. I’ll be recommending both old and new stories, and I’ll be including stories from a wider array of magazines rather than just … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – November 2025
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Short Story Recommendations – October 2025
It's time for another round of short story reviews, marking the first time in loooong while that I've managed to do these posts two months in a row. (I'm still not sure I'm ready to make that a habit again, though.) We will start out strong. If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow by Claire … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – October 2025
Short Story Recommendations – September 2025
It is about time I posted my lasted short story recommendations. Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of Clarkesworld, Podcastle, and Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (all three some of my favorite magazines), trying to catch up on what they have published during the summer. That really shows in what made it to the list of … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – September 2025
Short Story Recommendations – July 2025
It's time for another (very late) round of short story recommendations. This one was meant to go out start of June, but life got busy as always, and I only just had time to clean up my notes. Anyway, I hope you find these stories as enjoyable as I did. Woodmask by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Uncanny): … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – July 2025
Short Story Recommendations – December 2024
The short story recommendations are back. Well, maybe... sort of. Thing is, I've just come out of something of a writing slump that has lasted most of the fall. And it's been even longer than that since I've read short stories on a regular basis, focusing more on novels instead. But I do still love … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – December 2024
Story Recommendations – May 2023
Here are my short story recommendations for May. If you're a fan of Sarah Pinsker and haven't read her collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into The Sea, I think this month's lists will be of special interest to you. The Girl Who Never Was by Harold R. Thompson (Pod Castle, episode 782): In the … Continue reading Story Recommendations – May 2023
Short Story Recommendations – March 2023
They are a little late because vacations, illness, and life in general just getting in the way. But here they are, my short story recommendations for March 2023. Housing Problem by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner (Podcastle, episode 773): This is a quite old story, originally published in Charm in October 1944. but the … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – March 2023
Story Recommendations – February 2023
Welcome to the 2023 Februrary short story recommendations. This month's recommendation are based on what I managed to read/listen to by the awesome science fiction and fantasy publishers of Apex, Podcastle, Analog, Lightspeed, StarShipSofa, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny Magazine. There is no magazine in particular who caught my attention this month. However, there is … Continue reading Story Recommendations – February 2023
Story Recommendations – December 2022
It's time for the last set of story recommendations for the year, just in time for the holidays. A I bring you very strong setup. I finally got around to reading some of last stories Daily Science Fiction are going to publish (for now, at least), and, of course, I found a few golden nuggets … Continue reading Story Recommendations – December 2022
Story Recommendations – November 2022
So... In October, I pretty much promised that this month's recommendations would include a bunch of Daily Science Fiction stories. Instead--and I'm not really sure why--I ended up reading far more broadly than I had planned. I continued my journey down the rabbit hole that is Uncanny's backlog and returned to reading old, neglected favorites … Continue reading Story Recommendations – November 2022
Toby Backman 