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Tor.com Short Fiction Fall 2019
We're delighted to share with you all of the stories we've published on Tor(dot)com in September, October, November, and December.
The Hundredth House Had No Walls by Laurie Penny
The Vetting by Michael Cassutt
Zeitgeber by Greg Egan
Water: A History by K.J. Kabza
As the Last I May Know by S.L. Huang
In Xanadu by Lavie Tidhar
The Touches by Brenda Peynado
Precious Little Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Time Invariance of Snow by E. Lily Yu
The Hundredth House Had No Walls by Laurie Penny
The Vetting by Michael Cassutt
Zeitgeber by Greg Egan
Water: A History by K.J. Kabza
As the Last I May Know by S.L. Huang
In Xanadu by Lavie Tidhar
The Touches by Brenda Peynado
Precious Little Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Time Invariance of Snow by E. Lily Yu
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First published December 16, 2019
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January 22, 2020
(3.5 stars)
A decent collection of short stories with no real bummer for me.
My favourites were:
"Zeitgeber" by Greg Egan with a great idea and execution - until the end which somehow felt as if it occured at the wrong moment and threw the story slightly off.
"Water: A History" by K.J. Kabza: even if the ending was no surprise this story convinced me with a perfect pace and structure. This is how a short story should be.
"The Last I May Know" by S.L. Huang: this dystopian piece about responsibility gave me the shivers. Beautiful and devastating.
"Precious Little Things" by Adrian Tchaikovsky: such a cute and imaginative worldbuilding. It made me immediately change my reading schedule and bump up "Made Things", the sequel novel, in my TBR list.
"The Time Invariance of Snow" by E. Lily Yu was slightly above my pay-roll (^^') - but so aesthetically poetic that I loved it even though I didn't really get it.
A decent collection of short stories with no real bummer for me.
My favourites were:
"Zeitgeber" by Greg Egan with a great idea and execution - until the end which somehow felt as if it occured at the wrong moment and threw the story slightly off.
"Water: A History" by K.J. Kabza: even if the ending was no surprise this story convinced me with a perfect pace and structure. This is how a short story should be.
"The Last I May Know" by S.L. Huang: this dystopian piece about responsibility gave me the shivers. Beautiful and devastating.
"Precious Little Things" by Adrian Tchaikovsky: such a cute and imaginative worldbuilding. It made me immediately change my reading schedule and bump up "Made Things", the sequel novel, in my TBR list.
"The Time Invariance of Snow" by E. Lily Yu was slightly above my pay-roll (^^') - but so aesthetically poetic that I loved it even though I didn't really get it.
May 22, 2021
This was a great anthology! There were at least two stories about pandemics/disease that hit WAYYYYY too close to home in 2020 but WOW I liked it. Also, I'm going to be looking up at least a couple of these authors and reading their other work based on this.
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