• Advance Review: The Best of Connie Willis

    The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories comes out tomorrow. This collection includes ten short stories with afterwords by Connie Willis as well as an introduction by her and the texts of three of her speeches: the 2006 Guest of Honor speech, the Grand Master Acceptance Speech, and an additional Grand Master Speech she prepared…

  • Guest Post: Best Science Fiction Stories

    I’ve got a guest post up on Best Science Fiction Stories today, in which I review Kono Tensei’s “Triceratops.” Check it out here: http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2013/06/25/triceratops-by-kono-tensei/

  • Magazine Spotlight: The Journal of Unlikely Entomology

    Some things about TheJournal of Unlikely Entomology: The Journal of Unlikely Entomology is a magazine devoted to stories about bugs. At least, that’s the magazine’s surface level purpose. As their website claims, within its pages you will find stories that are not just about bugs but are also about “the limits of what it means…

  • SSR Extra: A Brief Interview with Ken Liu

    In honor of this year’s Hugos — and my excitement at attending WorldCon for the first time — I will be publishing interviews with the three writers nominated for Best Short Story; this week, I’ve interviewed, albeit briefly on account of his time constraints due to career obligations and a novel in the works, Ken…

  • The Hugo Awards: Best Short Story

    Hugo votes close on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. There have been only three short stories nominated this year – which is disappointing, as there were so many worthy short stories released in 2012 – but the works that were nominated are, of course, excellent, and I would like to congratulate all the nominees who made…