Annotations include time estimates, links to the story on the author’s website (if available), author links with Campbell Award-eligibility marked (superscript for year 1 or 2), blurbs for RSR-reviewed stories, links to reviews, and links to digital back issues (of print magazines) at eBookstores and library websites.
There are also the RSR annotated Locus Reading List, Nebula Award Nominees, and Hugo Award Finalists for short fiction.
2017
Total Stories: 9
(9 reviewed by RSR)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 6h:49m (123K words)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 6h:49m (123K words)
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(Fantasy/SF) Young Aqib has a bright
future as a noble, but he meets an enchanting foreigner who makes him
consider risking everything.
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(Near-future SF; Project Empathy)
Teenage Bel worked as a host at a Blue Cup restaurant in Concord, CA before
Blue Cup moved her to San Francisco for special training. Very special.
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(Fairy Tale) Tabitha has been walking
a long time, trying to wear out seven pairs of iron shoes; Amira has been
sitting alone on a glass hill that suitors try to climb.
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(SF/Mainstream) The crew of the new
Mars mission are coming to the hotel where Emily works, and her mom is
starting to say strange things about her involvement with the last Mars
mission.
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(Black Lovecraftian Horror) In 1924
Harlem, 20-year-old Tommy Tester plays bad jazz and runs minor scams. When an
old man offers him $500 to play at his house, he knows there's a catch. It's
just not what he expects.
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(Post Apocalypse) Teenage Tetley lives
in a human settlement (one of the last) built on a miles-wide floating
garbage dump. She explains why everyone hates her now.
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(Near-Future Hard SF) Lita learned
Rob's obsession with alternate universes in college, but waning interest in
science made it hard for him to explore it.
Other
Reviews RSR
Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 SFRevu:4 GDozois:5 RHorton:5 NClarke JStrahan Sturgeon
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(Horror) Following a disaster in
Antarctica, MacReady spends summer 1983 in New York and starts to wonder what
he might have brought back with him.
Other
Reviews RSR
Mini-Review [3] Recommended By: SFRevu:4 GDozois:5 RHorton:5 NClarke JStrahan Nebula Sturgeon
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(SF) Months after mysterious aliens
scattered their spacecraft across North America, no one has a clue what they
want. Avery knows what one of them wants, though: it wants a tour.
Other
Reviews RSR
Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 GDozois:5 RHorton:4 NClarke JStrahan Hugo Sturgeon
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2016
Total Stories: 12
(11 reviewed by RSR)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 8h:02m (145K words)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 8h:02m (145K words)
And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead
by Brooke Bolander
Time: 37m (Novelette) Issue: Lightspeed 57
Rhye a bitter ex-supersoldier, fights
to rescue Rack, her hacker partner in crime, after the criminals they're
working for kill Rack's body while his mind is in cyberspace.
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Not reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank.
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Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts By Ida Countess Rathangan
by Ian McDonald Time: 44m (Novelette)
Issue: Old Venus 2015
Lady Ida's visit to Venus was
memorialized by the beautiful floral papercuts she made there, but this
sensational story reveals the secret of the real purpose of her visit.
Other
Reviews RSR
Mini-Review [5] Recommended By: RSR:5 LTilton SFRevu:5 GDozois:5 RHorton:5 NClarke JStrahan Sturgeon
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An intelligent, patchwork fighter ship
struggles to help the last of the Free Belt fight off the Earth Force.
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(SF) Romanz, a judge in the moons of
Jupiter, deals with a tough case involving a juvenile delinquent AI.
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(Science Fantasy) Lao Dao processes
trash in a fantastic future "third-space" Beijing. To get money for
his daughter's education, he makes a dangerous trip to first-space--a city
that unfolds when his own Beijing sleeps.
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With Earth falling apart, a secret
group launches a mission to Alpha Centauri in 2041. Launching is only half
the problem; getting there is the real challenge.
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One of the last live bands struggles
to do performances in a mostly-online world.
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(Hard SF) The situation on Vesta has
reached the point where certain people flee to Ceres in suspended animation.
Anna, the new Director of Ceres, tries to understand the refugees better as
relations with Vesta continue to deteriorate.
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The Game of Smash and Recovery
by Kelly Link
Time: 18m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 10/19/15
(SF) Anat doesn't remember her
parents, but she loves her brother Oscar. They live in a wonderful world full
of strange creatures and machines. The more she learns, the stranger things
seem.
Other
Reviews RSR
Mini-Review [4] Recommended By: RSR:4 GDozois:5 RHorton:5 JStrahan Readers Sturgeon
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Tess is writing an article about a new
disease that causes women to give birth to clones of themselves.
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The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill by Kelly Robson1
Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: Clarkesworld 101
In 2001, just before the attacks, a
girl out West has a very close encounter with space aliens.
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