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 – 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
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 – 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 