by Alex Woodroe, Matt Blairstone (Editors)
- “Seaflowers” by Ori Jay ★★★
- “Fencing Chestplate” by Avi Burton ★★★
- “#MOTHERMAYHEM” by Jei D. Marcade ★★★★
- “The Simulacrum” by Max Turner ★★★
- “The Pearl Diver” by Bri Crozier ★★½
Category archives: ★★★
The Woman Destroyed
by Simone de Beauvoir
“The Age of Discretion” ★★★
Vacuum in the Dark
by Jen Beagin
★★★
Linghun
by Ai Jiang
★★★
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
by Tananarive Due
- “The Wishing Pool” ★★★
- “Haint in the Window” ★★★
- “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” ★★★
- “Thursday Night Shift” ★★★★
- “Last Stop on Route 9” ★★
- “Suppertime” ★★★
- “Rumpus Room” ★★★
- “Migration” ★½
- “Caretaker” ★★
- “One Day Only” ★★★½
- “Attachment Disorder” ★★★
- “Ghost Ship” ★★★½
- “Shopping Day” ★★★
- “The
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
by bell hooks
★★★
Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny
by Limmy
Many memoirs would be a plummet in gravity and craft coming off of reading Wild Swans. I was sorrowed to know the threshold for life moments to reflect on. The comedy chapter was what I was after and I appreciated the part about meditation.
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
by Kai Cheng Thom
★★★
The Journey Prize Stories 33: The Best of Canada’s New Black Writers
by David Chariandy, Esi Edugyan, Canisia Lubrin (Editors)
★★★
Miss Muriel and Other Stories
by Ann Petry
- “Miss Muriel” ★★★½
- “The New Mirror” ★★★½
- “Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean?” ★★★½
- “The Migraine Workers” ★★★½
- “Mother Africa” ★★★
- “The Bones of Louella Brown” ★★★★
- “Olaf and His Girl Friend” ★★½
- “Like a Winding Sheet” ★½
- “The Witness” ★½
- “Solo on the Drums” ★★
- “The Necessary
You Have the Right to Remain Fat
by Virgie Tovar
★★★
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators
by Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang (Editors)
- “The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu ★★★
- “What Does the Fox Say?” by Xia Jia ★★★
- “Blackbird” by Shen Dacheng ★½
- “The Name of the Dragon” by Ling Chen ★★½
- “New Year Painting, Ink and Color on Rice Paper, Zhaoqiao Village” by Chen
Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 3
Marie Hodgkinson (Editor)
- “New Zealand Gothic” by Jack Remiel Cottrell ★★★
- “Synaesthete” by Melanie Harding-Shaw ★★★
- “Death confetti” by Zoë Meager ★★★
- “How To Get A Girlfriend (When You’re A Terrifying Monster)” by Marie Cardno ★★★
- “Salt White, Rose Red” by Emily Brill-Holland ★★★
- “You Can’t Beat Wellington on a Good
Kundo Wakes Up
by Saad Z. Hossain
★★★
Hark! A Vagrant
(Hark! A Vagrant #1)
by Kate Beaton
★★★
The Sentient
(Cosmic #1)
by Nadia Afifi
★★★
The Best of World SF: Volume 2
by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)
- “The Bahrain Underground Bazaar” by Nadia Afifi ★★★★★
- “The Ten-Percent Thief” by Lavanya Lakshminarayan ★★★
- “At Desk 9501” by Frances Ogamba ★★★
- “Bring Your Own Spoon” (reread) by Saad Z. Hossain ★★★★★
- “Blue Grey Blue” by Yukimi Ogawa ★★★½
- “Your Multicolored Life” by Xing He ★★
- “The
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler
by Lynell George
★★★
To Hold up the Sky
by Liu Cixin
★★★¼ Liu was able to hold back on overt sexist commentary until the last story. Detailed dives into narrow points of imagination. He can’t conceive of worlds where leaders aren’t men, where justice and art thrive together, where god-like entities have more emotional intelligence than insecure, petulant babies.… Read more
The Best of World SF: Volume 1
by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)
- “What the Dead Man Said” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
- “Delhi” by Vandana Singh ★★★★
- “The Wheel of Samsara” by Han Song ★★
- “Xingzhou” by Ng Yi-Sheng ★★★
- “Prayer” by Taiyo Fujii ★★
- “The Green Ship” by Francesco Verso ★★½
- “Eyes of the Crocodile” by Malena Salazar Maciá