Brain Games: Stories to Astonish

Third Flatiron Anthologies #29

by Juliana Rew (Editor), Brian Trent, Jetse de Vries

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Brain Stories to Astonish," a collection of 27 short science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories. Twenty-seven authors treat the theme of the brain's logical and creative sides, touching on future biotechnology, pandemics, dark fantasy, mythology, and alternative intelligence. A flash humor section is included.

Contributors are Brian Trent, Jetse de Vries, Geoff Taylor, Ellen Denton, M. K. Hutchins, Henry McFarland, Graham J. Darling, Monica Joyce Evans, Lisa Timpf, David Rogers, M. Richard Eley, Maureen Bowden, Dennis Conrad, Joseph Sidari, Paula Hammond, Alyce Campbell, C. J. Peterson, Jess Hyslop, Dominick Cancilla, Jenny Blackford, Justin Short, Eleftherios Keramidas, Brenda Kezar, Rebecca Fung, Steve Zisson, Aidan Doyle, and Lauren Lang. Edited by Juliana Rew.

Genres: Anthologies

250 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 26, 2020

About the author

Juliana Rew was an NCAR science and technical writer in Boulder, Colorado, and is editor at Third Flatiron Publishing, publishing SF and fantasy anthologies.

Reviews

[Βιβή Κανάρη · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really original stories. Loved it

[Robert Bagnall · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two and a half stars, rounded up to three because the world needs its grassroots publishers like Juli Rew’s Third Flatiron - but there’s too much clunky deathless prose and telling not showing (in the first story the characters stand in a circle and explain the plot to each other!) for my liking to go higher. That said, I did like the idea of the dEthLisztCreator and Eleftherios Keramidas was trying to do something impressively different in his tale.