• McSweeney’s Issue 41

    As far as short fiction goes, McSweeney’s has always been one of my favorite magazines, partly because they don’t shy away from the fantastic. In the most recent issue, McSweeney’s 41, we have twelve short stories, four of which are written by Aboriginal Australian writers in a section highlighting Australian short fiction. The issue also…

  • The Secret History of Science Fiction

    There are nineteen stories in this collection as well as an introduction by the editors in which they discuss the “genrefication” of science fiction and its status as a lower form of literature, ascribed to it by readers and critics unfamiliar with the genre. Throughout the course of the book, before each story, quotes are…