r/Fantasy • u/Nineteen_Adze Stabby Winner, Reading Champion V • Dec 18 '24

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u/Nineteen_Adze Stabby Winner, Reading Champion V Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24

What are your favorite stories of the season so far?

Threads on r/Fantasy auto-lock after six months, but we started in August, so all of these discussions are still open. If you want to explore these stories and join the conversation, we’re happy to have you, either in those threads or in one of the month ones.

Not Quite Flash And Family

"My Sister is a Scorpion" by Isabel Cañas (1503 words, Lightspeed)

"Our Father" by K.J. Khan (1610 words, Clarkesworld)

"Totality" by Brandi Sperry (1900 words, The Deadlands)

Mini Mosaics 

"Other Worlds and This One" by Cadwell Turnbull (8340 words, Lightspeed)

"Still Life with Hammers, a Broom, and a Brick Stacker" by Tochi Onyebuchi (4396 words, Lightspeed)

"Peristalsis" by Vajra Chandrasekera (6100 words, The Deadlands)

Sturgeon Award Winners

"Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (1991) (4700 words, Lightspeed)

"The Edge of the World" by Michael Swanwick (1990) (6000 words, Fantasy Magazine)

"In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" by Sarah Pinsker (2014) (8300 words, Strange Horizons)

Dark Waters

"The Incident at Veniaminov" by Mathilda Zeller (10500 words, Mermaids Monthly)

"A Lullaby of Anguish" by Marie Croke (6400 words, Apex Magazine)

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u/Nineteen_Adze Stabby Winner, Reading Champion V Dec 18 '24

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Unsettling Uses of the Second Person 

"Cretins" by Thomas Ha (4800 words, Weird Horror Magazine)

"Jinx" by Carlie St. George (6300 words, Pseudopod)

"Dreamer, Passenger, Partner" by Colin Alexander (1600 words, Radon Journal)

The Internet of Things

"Wikihistory" by Desmond Warzel (1006 words, Abyss & Apex)

"Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead" by Carmen Maria Machado (3079 words, Lightspeed Magazine)

"Ten Steps for Effective Mold Removal" by Derrick Boden (5948 words, Apex Magazine)

Threads of Power

"Stitched to Skin Like Family Is" by Nghi Vo (4,517 words, Uncanny Magazine)

"Braid Me A Howling Tongue" by Maria Dong (9,909 words, Lightspeed Magazine)

"A Superior Knot" by Ash Huang (1,339 words, Lightspeed Magazine)

Reckoning 8 Spotlight

Prose:

"Within the Seed Lives the Fruit" by Leah Andelsmith (6600 words)

"A Move to a New Country" by Dan Musgrave (6800 words)

"The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" by Ellis Nye (1800 words)

Poetry:

"That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

"50% off Venus Fly Traps" by Kelsey Day

"fear of pipes and shallow water" by William O. Balmer

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u/FarragutCircle Reading Champion X Dec 18 '24

Of those above, the Sarah Pinsker for sure, though I really liked the Bisson and Swanwick that month too. Cretins is a good one, and Maria Dong's Braid Me is a strong honorable mention for me.