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
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Ten Little Indians

by Sherman Alexie
  • “The Search Engine” ★★★★
  • “Lawyer’s League” ★★★½
  • “Can I Get a Witness?” ★★★
  • “Do Not Go Gentle” ★★★
  • “Flight Patterns” ★★½
  • “The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above” ★★½
  • “Do You Know Where I Am?” ★★★★
  • “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” ★★★★
  • “What Ever Happened to
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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
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Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry

by David Ly (Editor)
  • “The Vetala’s Song” by Anuja Varghese ★★★½
  • “#WWMD?” by jaye simpson ★★★
  • “Gruesome My Love” by Levi Cain ★★★
  • “Glamour-Us” by Andrew Wilmot ★★★
  • “And the Moon Spun Round like a Top” by Hiromi Goto ★★★½
  • “The Minotaur and Theseus (and Other Bullshit)” by Ben Rawluk ★★★½
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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Editor)
  • “The Many Lives of an Abiku” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★★
  • “A Love Song for Herkinal as composed by Ashkernas amid the ruins of New Haven” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
  • “Are We Ourselves?” by Michelle Mellon ★★½
  • “The Goatkeeper’s Harvest” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★½
  • “Baba Klep” by Eugen
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This All Come Back Now

by Mykaela Saunders (Editor)
  • “Myth This!” by Lisa Fuller ★★★★
  • “Jacaranda Street” by Jasmin McGaughey ★★★
  • “When From” by Merryana Salem ★★★½
  • “An Invitation” by Timmah Ball ★★★★
  • “Water” by Ellen van Neerven ★★★
  • “Terranora” by Mykaela Saunders ★★★
  • “After the End of Their World” by Hannah Donnelly ★★
  • “Protocols of
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King Kong Theory

by Virginie Despentes

A shambles, outside of writing about her personal history. Misogynist yardsticks aren’t reclaimable and don’t depose the male gaze. Exudes not-like-other-girls vibes in distorting consequence for cause in prizing masculinity and maligning femininity. Haphazard groundless arguments including aligning with MRA posturing, plural Julie Delpy-style white woman statements (‘It’s … Read more