Speculative Short Fiction Deserves Love discussion

Hi all. I put out this hashtag on Twitter today: https://twitter.com/hashtag/bestsf2015
and some great recommendations are coming in.
Would love to hear from you if you've read any great short stories/novelettes/novellas that came out this year, either here or in that hashtag if you tweet.

The nice thing here is that we have room to say WHY we liked a story if we feel like it.

Will definitely be investigating that when I get a minute. I am always at a bit of a disadvantage regarding these kinds of questions because I don't pay a lot of attention to when things are published so I just don't know if the things I've read and enjoyed recently came out in 2015 or not. Of course I can look them up and find out, when I have a minute I just don't have a minute right now

I made a definite, intentional shift to reading stuff when it came out after I started nominating for awards. I hate finding a story that I think was worthy of attention after it missed out on getting attention. The window for a story to get noticed is so small.

I have not yet made that shift. There's so much that I haven't read from previous years and I don't want to miss out on in an attempt to keep up with everything that's coming out this year.

I think there's a balance to be found. I'm on a Le Guin kick right now. Once you accept you can't read EVERYTHING it all turns out okay. I haven't reread anything in years, though. I miss rereading.

I am able to give a good recommendation and help out some friends with this one. RoChe Montoya has 2 book that fall into this category and I think you will enjoy them. First is their sci-fi short Planet Prey and their urban fantasy The 2nd Realm .
Like I said, these are friends but they also wrote stories that kept my attention with the action and even kept my interest with good story line. Hope this will be the same for you.

This may be old news to some- Ursula Vernon's "Jack alopecia Wives" has a World Fantasy Award nomination for best short story..

The World Fantasy Award nominations are pretty solid this year!

There's a quarterly survey of favorite SF here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Vw-I...

Sarah wrote: "There's a quarterly survey of favorite SF here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Vw-I..."

Thanks Sarah! The editors of Ladybusiness have been running this survey quarterly this year (previous links - https://ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2... and https://ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2...) Would love some help from the group filling in your favorites short fiction from July/Aug/Sep!

Year is over... so what were your favorite short stories/novellas/novelettes of 2015?

I'm playing catch up on the second half of the year still.

I'm just starting it, but The Builders by Daniel Polansky is shaping up to be an interesting little Tor Original novella. I like anthropomorphic animal stories.

I really liked "Entanglements", by David Gerrold, in the May/June double issue of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Thinking of it makes me want to go back and read it again.

I quite liked the multiple-universes noir murder mystery "Schrodinger's Gun" by Ray Wood, available on Tor.com.

http://www.tor.com/2015/02/18/schroed...

I thoroughly enjoyed "Damage" by David Levine, also on Tor, about an AI starfighter.

http://www.tor.com/2015/01/21/damage-...

I assembled a (long) blog post on my favorite short fiction of 2015.

http://www.acwise.net/?p=2015

It was a really strong year for short fiction, as far as I'm concerned. 2016 seems to be off to a great start as well!

I've been following your short fiction recommendations on your blog for awhile now and I always find something I enjoy. Thanks from me - I find them very helpful.

For comparison's sake, the Locus 2015 recommendations are out in their 2015 Year in Review issue.

Terry wrote: "For comparison's sake, the Locus 2015 recommendations are out in their 2015 Year in Review issue."

Yep! Link here: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/02/...

Were any of your favorites left off?

In her list, Abigail Nussbaum said about The Ticket Taker of Cenote Zací by Benjamin Parzybok: "If there's one story this year that I desperately would have liked to see get more attention, this is it."
Since I agree it's really good, I figured I'd give that a little signal boost.