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This wonderful story is an example of Slipstream fiction - a piece of fiction that falls somewhere between science fiction and mainstream literary fiction. There has been a lot of discussion on the interweebs of late about what science fiction is (it’s really a never-ending discussion), and this story, a 2003 Nebula winner, is […]

“Allamagoosa” is a short story by Eric Frank Russell that holds the distinction of winning the first Hugo ever awarded for Short Story (1955). The story is an enjoyable satire of military bureaucracy. The captain and crew of the spaceship Bustler have to account for every single item they had been provided when […]

Escape Pod continues what it started last year - they are offering audio versions of some of this year’s Hugo nominees. Available right now are these nominees for Best Short Story:
Hot russian girls gallery. Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt
The House Beyond Your Sky by Benjamin Rosenbaum
Eight Episodes by Robert Reed
Kin by Bruce McAllister
And over on Neil Gaiman’s site, […]

“None So Blind” is a joy to read. It’s very short, and the central SF idea in it (that unlocking the brain’s real power triggers the next step in human evolution) is something we’ve seen before. But this story’s charm is in its presentation. It is like a poem - a kind […]

The Kirinyaga series consists of ten stories which were originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction and Fantasy and Science Fiction magazines between 1988 and 1996. Nearly every story garnered a Hugo nomination, with two of them winning the award: “Kirinyaga” (Short Story, 1989) and “The Manamouki” (Novelette, 1991). “The Manamouki” is on the […]