| Russ Allbery > Reviews |
This is an index of my reviews of short science fiction and fantasy. Most of the reviews are from magazines, but some are from short story collections or anthologies. The links here lead to segments of the magazine, collection, or anthology review and each review is generally only a paragraph.
I keep this index mostly to remember which authors I've read in short fiction and to look for trends and remember authors I liked.
The reviews are just my personal opinion based on how much I like a story, although I try to provide some analysis of why I hold that opinion. I try to avoid major spoilers, but it can be very hard to review short fiction without giving at least some hint of the direction of the story. Please see my review philosophy for more details on how and why I review and rate books, most of which is also applicable to short fiction.
| 5 - | "The Auctioneer and the Antiquarian, or, 1962" |
| 7 - | "Pipeline" |
| 4 - | "Safe!" |
| 6 - | "Godburned" |
| 6 - | "Pleased to Meetcha" |
| 5 - | "Rough Draft" |
| 5 - | "In the Space of Nine Lives" |
| 5 - | "Storm Poet" |
| 6 - | "A Rocket for the Republic" |
| 7 - | "Alien Archaeology" |
| 6 - | "The Gabble" |
| 7 - | "Mason's Rats" |
| 6 - | "Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck" |
| 9 - | "Nightfall" |
| 7 - | "Telefunken Remix" |
| 6 - | "The Calorie Man" |
| 7 - | "Pop Squad" |
| 6 - | "The Tamarisk Hunter" |
| 3 - | "Yellow Card Man" |
| 6 - | "Spells for Halloween: An Acrostic" |
| 7 - | "Bad Machine" |
| 6 - | "The Two Old Women" |
| 6 - | "Radio Station St. Jack" |
| 4 - | "Slidin'" |
| 4 - | "Hallucigenia" |
| 4 - | The Imago Sequence" |
| 2 - | "Proboscis" |
| 5 - | "Dark of the Sun" |
| 5 - | "Down to the Earth Below" |
| 3 - | "Harvest Moon" |
| 7 - | "In the Age of the Quiet Sun" |
| 4 - | "The Rocket Into Planetary Space" |
| 6 - | "The Children of Time" |
| 5 - | "Ghost Wars" |
| 4 - | "The Ice War" |
| 3 - | "In the Abyss of Time" |
| 6 - | "El Regalo" |
| 9 - | "Two Hearts" |
| 8 - | "And the Deep Blue Sea" |
| 6 - | "Botticelli" |
| 8 - | "Catoyant" |
| 9 - | "ee 'doc' cummings" |
| 6 - | "Follow Me Light" |
| 6 - | "Gone to Flowers" |
| 6 - | "High Iron" |
| 8 - | "Ice" |
| 6 - | "L'esprit d'escalier" |
| 7 - | "Limerent" |
| 7 - | "Lucifugous" |
| 7 - | "Lumière" |
| 7 - | "Old Leatherwings" |
| 7 - | "One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King" |
| 4 - | "Schrödinger's Cat Chases the Super String" |
| 5 - | "Seven Dragons Mountains" |
| 7 - | "Shoggoths in Bloom" |
| 8 - | "Sleeping Dogs Lie" |
| 7 - | "Stella Nova" |
| 7 - | "The Chains That You Refuse" |
| 7 - | "The Company of Four" |
| 7 - | "The Devil You Don't" |
| 9 - | "This Tragic Glass" |
| 9 - | "Tideline" |
| 5 - | "Tiger! Tiger!" |
| 7 - | "Two Dreams on Trains" |
| 5 - | "When You Visit the Magoebaskloof Hotel, Be Certain Not to Miss the Samango Monkeys" |
| 7 - | "Wane" |
| 6 - | "Wax" |
| 7 - | "The Dying of the Light" |
| 5 - | "Dark Eden" |
| 7 - | "The Perimeter" |
| 5 - | "Datacide" |
| 6 - | "Nightmare" |
| 6 - | "A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange" |
| 9 - | "Kaeleer's Heart" |
| 9 - | "The Prince of Ebon Rih" |
| 6 - | "Weaver of Dreams" |
| 7 - | "Zuulaman" |
| 6 - | "Vinegar Peace, or, the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage" |
| 5 - | "Billy and the Ants" |
| 6 - | "Billy and the Fairy" |
| 4 - | "Billy and the Spacemen" |
| 6 - | "Billy and the Unicorn" |
| 4 - | "Planet of Mystery, Part I" |
| 2 - | "Planet of Mystery, Part II" |
| 6 - | "The Roberts" |
| 6 - | "Re-Entry Shock" |
| 4 - | "The Supersonic Zeppelin" |
| 7 - | "If Angels Fight" |
| 8 - | "Angry Duck" |
| 6 - | "Dazzle the Pundit" |
| 7 - | "Mars Opposition" |
| 7 - | "The Borders of Infinity" |
| 6 - | "Labyrinth" |
| 6 - | "The Mountains of Mourning" |
| 7 - | "Spiders" |
| 3 - | "Seventy-Five Years" |
| 7 - | "The Turn" |
| 3 - | "Fog" |
| 7 - | "The Night We Buried Road Dog" |
| 7 - | "Balancing Accounts" |
| 5 - | "The Dinosaur Train" |
| 6 - | "Parsifal (Prix Fixe)" |
| 7 - | "Gun Fight at the Sugerloaf Pet Food & Taxidermy" |
| 5 - | "The Tiger in the Garden" |
| 7 - | "Perfect Stranger" |
| 6 - | "Skull Valley" |
| 7 - | "Two Weeks After" |
| 6 - | "Dance of Shadows" |
| 6 - | "The Diamond Shadow" |
| 7 - | "Soldier of the Singularity" |
| 8 - | "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" |
| 7 - | "John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner" |
| 6 - | "The Kewlest Thing of All" |
| 6 - | "46 Directions, None of Them North" |
| 7 - | "Chainsaw on Hand" |
| 6 - | "The Whale's Lover" |
| 6 - | "1 Is True" |
| 6 - | "Daughters of Prime" |
| 6 - | "The King's Tail" |
| 7 - | "Journey to Gantica" |
| 6 - | "The Song of Kido" |
| 5 - | "The Amulet" |
| 8 - | "Animal Magnetism" |
| 8 - | "Envoy Extraordinary" |
| 6 - | "The Housewarming" |
| 5 - | "Imitation of Life" |
| 6 - | "Immortal Forms" |
| 7 - | "Murder in the Flying Vatican" |
| 6 - | "The Name of the Sphinx" |
| 7 - | "The Overseer" |
| 7 - | "Poison Victory" |
| 5 - | "The Recreation Room" |
| 7 - | "Revelation" |
| 7 - | "The Revivalist" |
| 6 - | "Thrilling Wonder Stories" |
| 5 - | "Twilight States" |
| 5 - | "Cut Loose the Bonds of Flesh and Bone" |
| 6 - | "The Edge of the Map" |
| 7 - | "The Golden Record" |
| 7 - | "The Hastillan Weed" |
| 5 - | "Silence in Florence" |
| 3 - | "This Is How It Feels" |
| 7 - | "Car 17" |
| 6 - | "Monkey See..." |
| 8 - | "An Open Letter to Earth" |
| 5 - | "Enfant Terrible" |
| 6 - | "Café Culture" |
| 4 - | "Babel 3000" |
| 5 - | "Czesko" |
| 7 - | "Alone" |
| 6 - | "A Tattoo on Her Heart" |
| 8 - | "A Wish Named Arnold" |
| 8 - | "Bridges" |
| 7 - | "But for the Grace Go I" |
| 7 - | "The Conjure Man" |
| 6 - | "Fairy Dust" |
| 6 - | "Freewheeling" |
| 8 - | "Ghosts of Wind and Shadow" |
| 7 - | "The Graceless Child" |
| 8 - | "In the House of My Enemy" |
| 10 - | "May This Be Your Last Sorrow" |
| 7 - | "Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood" |
| 6 - | "The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep" |
| 8 - | "One Chance" |
| 9 - | "Our Lady of the Harbour" |
| 8 - | "Paperjack" |
| 4 - | "Pity the Monsters" |
| 5 - | "Romano Drom" |
| 5 - | "The Sacred Fire" |
| 7 - | "Sisters" |
| 6 - | "Small Deaths" |
| 8 - | "Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box" |
| 8 - | "Stick" |
| 6 - | "The Stone Drum" |
| 7 - | "Tallulah" |
| 5 - | "That Explains Poland" |
| 7 - | "There's No Such Thing" |
| 6 - | "Timeskip" |
| 7 - | "Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair" |
| 9 - | "Waifs and Strays" |
| 9 - | "Winter Was Hard" |
| 5 - | "Wooden Bones" |
| 5 - | "Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita" |
| 6 - | "Señora Suerte" |
| 6 - | "The Bone Man" |
| 8 - | "Dark Integers" |
| 5 - | "At Sixes and Sevens" |
| 6 - | "Killers" |
| 6 - | "Master of the Road to Nowhere" |
| 4 - | "The Seducer" |
| 7 - | "Wilmer or Wesley" |
| 6 - | "The Mole Cure" |
| 7 - | "Elegy" |
| 7 - | "The Secret Sutras of Sally Strumpet" |
| 5 - | "The Wall of America" |
| 6 - | "Counterfactual" |
| 6 - | "When the Great Days Came" |
| 6 - | "Shadow Twin" |
| 6 - | "Memory Work" |
| 6 - | "The World and Alice" |
| 6 - | "I Live With You" |
| 6 - | "World of No Return" |
| 6 - | "First Was the Word" |
| 4 - | "Abandon the Ruins" |
| 6 - | "An Eye for an Eye" |
| 3 - | "Love and the Wayward Troll" |
| 5 - | "Of Silence and the Men at Arms" |
| 5 - | "Passing Through" |
| 7 - | "The Political Prisoner" |
| 4 - | "The Ghosts on Christmas Eaves" |
| 7 - | "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" |
| 7 - | "Boatman's Holiday" |
| 6 - | "Immunity" |
| 4 - | "Paid in Full" |
| 5 - | "The Last Akialoa" |
| 6 - | "Always" |
| 6 - | "Leonid Skies" |
| 6 - | "We Are the Cat" |
| 8 - | "Terms of Engagement" |
| 6 - | "The Real Deal" |
| 7 - | "At These Prices" |
| 8 - | "The Beau and the Beast" |
| 4 - | "The Fraud" |
| 6 - | "Helen Remembers the Stork Club" |
| 7 - | "Last Man Standing" |
| 7 - | "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" |
| 5 - | "Brothers" |
| 7 - | "Death and Venice" |
| 8 - | "Endless Nights" |
| 6 - | "Fifteen Portraits of Despair" |
| 6 - | "Going Inside" |
| 7 - | "The Heart of a Star" |
| 6 - | "Hold Me" |
| 6 - | "Jack in the Green" |
| 8 - | "On the Peninsula" |
| 7 - | "Sandman Midnight Theater" |
| 5 - | "Shaggy God Stories" |
| 8 - | "What I've Tasted of Desire" |
| 7 - | "The Good Ship Lollypop" |
| 7 - | "Kansas, She Says, Is the Name of the Star" |
| 7 - | "Oxygen Rising" |
| 5 - | "Queen of the Balts" |
| 7 - | "Teen Angel" |
| 7 - | "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" |
| 6 - | "Rebecca's Locket" |
| 7 - | "Red Card" |
| 6 - | "Who Brought Tulips to the Moon?" |
| 6 - | "Okanoggan Falls" |
| 6 - | "Dark Rooms" |
| 5 - | "Lilyanna" |
| 7 - | "Reader's Guide" |
| 6 - | "The Bridge" |
| 7 - | "Memory Dog" |
| 4 - | "Cannibal Farm" |
| 6 - | "The Devil Bats Will Be a Little Late This Year" |
| 6 - | "Memoirs of the Witch Queen" |
| 7 - | "The Secret of the Scarab" |
| 7 - | "Damascus" |
| 7 - | "Dead Horse Point" |
| 5 - | "Gardening at Night" |
| 9 - | "Second Person, Present Tense" |
| 7 - | "Unpossible" |
| 5 - | "The 120 Hours of Sodom" |
| 6 - | "The Sanguine" |
| 3 - | "Unbending Eye" |
| 5 - | "RAW" |
| 4 - | "Uncreated Night and Strange Shadows" |
| 7 - | "Foreclosure" |
| 8 - | "Echo" |
| 7 - | "An Almanac for the Alien Invaders" |
| 6 - | "Render unto Caesar" |
| 6 - | "Requirements for the Mythology Merit Badge" |
| 6 - | "Angels Unawares" |
| 6 - | "Deluge" |
| 6 - | "No Different Flesh" |
| 4 - | "Return" |
| 7 - | "Shadow on the Moon" |
| 8 - | "Troubling of the Water" |
| 7 - | "From the Mouths of Babes" |
| 8 - | "Domovoi" |
| 7 - | "PowerSuit TM" |
| 4 - | "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentle Ghosts" |
| 6 - | "A Herd of Opportunity" |
| 6 - | "Bye the Rules" |
| 7 - | "The Devil You Don't" |
| 7 - | "Finding Sajessarian" |
| 6 - | "Fullbrim's Finding" |
| 6 - | "The Gist Hunter" |
| 6 - | "Help Wonted" |
| 6 - | "The Helper and His Hero, Part 1" |
| 6 - | "The Helper and His Hero, Part 2" |
| 4 - | "Inner Huff" |
| 6 - | "The Meaning of Luff" |
| 6 - | "Petri Parousia" |
| 6 - | "Shadow Man" |
| 6 - | "Sweet Trap" |
| 6 - | "Thwarting Jabbi Gloond" |
| 5 - | "The Golems of Detroit" |
| 6 - | "The Lorelei" |
| 7 - | "Mystery Hill" |
| 5 - | "Shambhala" |
| 6 - | "Wizard's Six" |
| 6 - | "The Boarder" |
| 6 - | "Brain Raid" |
| 5 - | "Dead Man" |
| 7 - | "Wrong Number" |
| 6 - | "A Friendly Little Oasis" |
| 5 - | "The Bad Hamburger" |
| 6 - | "California King" |
| 6 - | "Firooz and His Brother" |
| 6 - | "Back to Moab" |
| 9 - | "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" |
| 5 - | "Another Country" |
| 7 - | "Lagos" |
| 6 - | "The Ninth Part of Desire" |
| 6 - | "Public Safety" |
| 6 - | "The Tomb Wife" |
| 4 - | "do(this)" |
| 7 - | "Beneath Sunlit Shallows" |
| 5 - | "Poor Guy" |
| 6 - | "Don't Stop" |
| 7 - | "The Edge of Nowhere" |
| 8 - | "The Leila Torn Show" |
| 6 - | "Surprise Party" |
| 5 - | "The Last American" |
| 7 - | "Pride and Prometheus" |
| 4 - | "Sunlight or Rock" |
| 4 - | "Earthtime" |
| 6 - | "Fireflies" |
| 5 - | "Nova Terra" |
| 5 - | "Bitterseed" |
| 9 - | "Divining Light" |
| 7 - | "The God Engine" |
| 6 - | "The Prophet of Flores" |
| 7 - | "The Art of Alchemy" |
| 7 - | "By Fools Like Me" |
| 6 - | "Call Back Yesterday" |
| 6 - | "End Game" |
| 7 - | "Fountain of Age" |
| 5 - | "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls" |
| 6 - | "The Rules" |
| 7 - | "Safeguard" |
| 6 - | "Sex and Violence" |
| 6 - | "Red-Cloak" |
| 9 - | "The Death of the Duke" |
| 8 - | "The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death" |
| 5 - | "Childrun" |
| 4 - | "Sweetmeats" |
| 7 - | "Dark Flowers, Inverse Moon" |
| 3 - | "Martyrs' Carnival" |
| 7 - | "Betting on Eureka" |
| 6 - | "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers" |
| 6 - | "The Arts of the Enemy" |
| 7 - | "If Looks Could Kill" |
| 6 - | "Leaks" |
| 6 - | "Fallen Idols" |
| 2 - | "Bounty" |
| 6 - | "Litany" |
| 5 - | "Cold Fire" |
| 6 - | "The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald" |
| 6 - | "Eating Hearts" |
| 7 - | "The Bones of the Earth" |
| 7 - | "Darkrose and Diamond" |
| 7 - | "Dragonfly" |
| 7 - | "On the High Marsh" |
| 8 - | "The Finder" |
| 5 - | "Inside the Box" |
| 6 - | "The Last McDougal's" |
| 4 - | "Primates" |
| 7 - | "Titanium Mike Saves the Day" |
| 4 - | "Tk'tk'tk" |
| 4 - | "Christmas in the Catskills" |
| 7 - | "The Gospel of Nate" |
| 7 - | "If You've Ever Been a Lady" |
| 6 - | "Atalanta Loses at the Interpantheonic Trivia Bee" |
| 6 - | "Just Do It" |
| 5 - | "Waking Chang-Er" |
| 6 - | "Magic for Beginners" |
| 4 - | "The Advocate" |
| 6 - | "A Few Good Men" |
| 5 - | "Jack B. Goode and the Neo-Modern Prometheus" |
| 8 - | "The Hob Carpet" |
| 8 - | "The Master Miller's Tale" |
| 5 - | "The Personal Touch" |
| 5 - | "Out of the Box" |
| 6 - | "Osama Phone Home" |
| 6 - | "The Final Flight of the Blue Bee" |
| 7 - | "To the East, A Bright Star" |
| 6 - | "The Boy in Zaquitos" |
| 4 - | "Cold War" |
| 6 - | "Hero, the Movie" |
| 6 - | "Kin" |
| 7 - | "The Lion" |
| 6 - | "Poison" |
| 5 - | "Spell" |
| 6 - | "Dead Men Walking" |
| 6 - | "Heisenberg Elementary" |
| 2 - | "They Will Raise You in a Box" |
| 7 - | "Keyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with Two Manuals" |
| 8 - | "Why the Aliens Did What They Did to that Suburb of Madison, Wisconsin" |
| 7 - | "The Lonesome Planet Travelers' Advisory" |
| 7 - | "Teachers' Lounge" |
| 5 - | "Fifth Day" |
| 8 - | "The Djinn's Wife" |
| 9 - | "The Little Goddess" |
| 6 - | "Midnight Blue" |
| 7 - | "Unlikely" |
| 6 - | "The Twilight Year" |
| 7 - | "A Thing Forbidden" |
| 4 - | "iKlawa" |
| 5 - | "Snail Stones" |
| 8 - | "The Summer of the Seven" |
| 7 - | "The Walls of the Universe" |
| 7 - | "Change of Life" |
| 6 - | "Polyhedrons" |
| 2 - | "Ayuh, Clawdius" |
| 6 - | "The Salting and Canning of Benevolence D." |
| 7 - | "A Portrait of the Artist" |
| 8 - | "Retrospect" |
| 6 - | "The Darkness Between" |
| 7 - | "The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations" |
| 7 - | "The Bird Shaman's Girl" |
| 6 - | "Finisterra" |
| 8 - | "The Hikikomori's Cartoon Kimono" |
| 6 - | "A Ten-Pound Sack of Rice" |
| 5 - | "Age of Miracles" |
| 7 - | "But Wait! There's More!" |
| 7 - | "Clipper's Last Ride" |
| 6 - | "Dutch" |
| 5 - | "Draw" |
| 8 - | "Feather and Ring" |
| 7 - | "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" |
| 6 - | "Rainmakers" |
| 5 - | "Battlefield Games" |
| 6 - | "Cascading Violet Hair" |
| 6 - | "Not Worth a Cent" |
| 5 - | "Organs R Us" |
| 5 - | "Studies in the Field" |
| 6 - | "Kath and Quicksilver" |
| 4 - | "Black Deer" |
| 8 - | "Maze of Trees" |
| 7 - | "The Moment of Joy Before" |
| 7 - | "The Company Man" |
| 4 - | "Republic" |
| 4 - | "Fragrant Goddess" |
| 5 - | "Gabe's Globster" |
| 6 - | "Three Days of Rain" |
| 7 - | "Generations" |
| 7 - | "Immortal Snake" |
| 6 - | "Another Perfect Day" |
| 6 - | "Bread and Circus" |
| 7 - | "The Great Caruso" |
| 7 - | "Holding Pattern" |
| 3 - | "Born Bad" |
| 4 - | "What I Owe to Rick" |
| 6 - | "The Quest for Creeping Charlie" |
| 7 - | "Close to the Edge" |
| 6 - | "The Colour of Magic" |
| 6 - | "The Lure of the Wyrm" |
| 6 - | "The Sending of Eight" |
| 6 - | "Bottom Feeding" |
| 8 - | "Impossible Dreams" |
| 6 - | "Close" |
| 4 - | "You Will Go to the Moon" |
| 7 - | "A Dying Fall" |
| 7 - | "Bank Run" |
| 6 - | "The Mists of Time" |
| 6 - | "Sepoy Fidelities" |
| 6 - | "Kallakak's Cousins" |
| 5 - | "The Dark Boy" |
| 7 - | "Lázaro y Antonio" |
| 5 - | "Biodad" |
| 6 - | "What Wolves Know" |
| 7 - | "A Billion Eves" |
| 7 - | "The Caldera of Good Fortune" |
| 7 - | "Character Flu" |
| 5 - | "The Cure" |
| 6 - | "Dallas: An Essay" |
| 7 - | "Eight Episodes" |
| 7 - | "Finished" |
| 8 - | "Five Thrillers" |
| 7 - | "From Above" |
| 5 - | "The House Left Empty" |
| 8 - | "If We Can Save Just One Child..." |
| 6 - | "Intolerance" |
| 6 - | "Less than Nothing" |
| 8 - | "Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys" |
| 5 - | "Misjudgement Day" |
| 6 - | "The New Deity" |
| 5 - | "Night Calls" |
| 5 - | "Old Man Waiting" |
| 6 - | "Pills Forever" |
| 4 - | "Plausible" |
| 6 - | "Poet Snow" |
| 6 - | "Pure Vision" |
| 7 - | "Reunion" |
| 7 - | "Roxie" |
| 6 - | "Rwanda" |
| 4 - | "Show Me Yours" |
| 7 - | "Starbuck" |
| 7 - | "Think So?" |
| 6 - | "X-Country" |
| 7 - | "Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders" |
| 7 - | "Distant Replay" |
| 4 - | "Down Memory Lane" |
| 8 - | "...With/By Good Intentions" |
| 6 - | "A Birth" |
| 6 - | "A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way" |
| 5 - | "The Christmas Witch" |
| 3 - | "Don't Ask" |
| 5 - | "The Harrowing" |
| 7 - | "Journey into the Kingdom" |
| 6 - | "Memoir of a Deer Woman" |
| 7 - | "Traitor" |
| 7 - | "Companion to Owls" |
| 7 - | "The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small" |
| 8 - | "Boon" |
| 6 - | "Lucy" |
| 6 - | "Horse-Year Women" |
| 7 - | "It's a Wonderful Life" |
| 7 - | "Stray" |
| 8 - | "Breeze from the Stars" |
| 5 - | "The Egg Man" |
| 7 - | "Green Shift" |
| 7 - | "Gypsy Tail Wind" |
| 7 - | "Home Movies" |
| 7 - | "Horse Racing" |
| 7 - | "Another Word for Map is Faith" |
| 6 - | "Chu and the Nants" |
| 5 - | "Post-Singular" |
| 4 - | "The Perfect Wave" |
| 5 - | "Hormiga Canyon" |
| 7 - | "Crunchers, Inc." |
| 8 - | "Diving into the Wreck" |
| 8 - | "Except the Music" |
| 6 - | "Killing Time" |
| 8 - | "Recovering Apollo 8" |
| 7 - | "The Room of Lost Souls" |
| 5 - | "The Second Descent" |
| 8 - | "The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai" |
| 9 - | "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)" |
| 6 - | "Amba" |
| 7 - | "Angel Kills" |
| 6 - | "After I Stopped Screaming" |
| 6 - | "A Daze in the Life" |
| 4 - | "Blood of Nalakia" |
| 5 - | "Goblin Night" |
| 5 - | "Novice" |
| 6 - | "The Lion Game" |
| 5 - | "Poltergeist" |
| 6 - | "Sleep No More" |
| 4 - | "The Star Hyacinths" |
| 6 - | "Undercurrents" |
| 8 - | "Bullet Dance" |
| 6 - | "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" |
| 7 - | "Memory of a Thing That Never Was" |
| 6 - | "The Dodo Factory" |
| 7 - | "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" |
| 5 - | "Foster" |
| 7 - | "Dead Money" |
| 7 - | "Stars Seen Through Stone" |
| 7 - | "Walpurgis Afternoon" |
| 8 - | "Under the Graying Sea" |
| 6 - | "The Cathedral of Universal Biodiversity" |
| 6 - | "Late Show" |
| 3 - | "Cruel Sistah" |
| 9 - | "Burgerdroid" |
| 7 - | "The Capacity to Appear Mindless" |
| 8 - | "Old As Books" |
| 7 - | "Refried Clichés: A Five-Course Meal" |
| 7 - | "Inclination" |
| 6 - | "Against the Current" |
| 5 - | "The Eater of Dreams" |
| 4 - | "Hanosz Prime Goes to Old Earth" |
| 6 - | "An Alien Heresy" |
| 3 - | "Bright Red Star" |
| 6 - | "Stone and the Librarian" |
| 6 - | "Rumple What?" |
| 5 - | "Doctor Muffet's Island" |
| 7 - | "Following the Pharmers" |
| 7 - | "The Philosopher's Stone" |
| 6 - | "The Plurality of Worlds" |
| 6 - | "The Trial" |
| 6 - | "Prodigal" |
| 5 - | "The Blemmye's Strategem" |
| 6 - | "The Denial" |
| 6 - | "Kiosk" |
| 7 - | "The First Editions" |
| 4 - | "The Star to Every Wandering Barque" |
| 7 - | "The Atrocity Archive" |
| 7 - | "The Concrete Jungle" |
| 6 - | "Trunk and Disorderly" |
| 4 - | "The Nocturnal Adventure of Dr. O and Mr. D" |
| 4 - | "Fergus" |
| 5 - | "I.D.I.D." |
| 5 - | "Pericles the Tyrant" |
| 7 - | "Circle" |
| 3 - | "Bedfellows" |
| 5 - | "He Woke in Darkness" |
| 2 - | "News from the Front" |
| 5 - | "The 400-Million-Year Itch" |
| 5 - | "Diluvium" |
| 7 - | "Promised Land" |
| 6 - | "Silv'ry Moon" |
| 3 - | "Slug Hell" |
| 6 - | "The Wave-Function Collapse" |
| 6 - | "The Woman Under the World" |
| 5 - | "The World Within the World" |
| 6 - | "The Osteomancer's Son" |
| 9 - | "How Music Begins" |
| 8 - | "The Ice-Cream Man" |
| 6 - | "The Small Astral Object Genius" |
| 6 - | "Poppies by Moonlight" |
| 6 - | "Virgin Wings" |
| 4 - | "Marrying In" |
| 6 - | "The Compass" |
| 6 - | "Parachute Kid" |
| 7 - | "Cold Comfort" |
| 6 - | "Lover of Statues" |
| 7 - | "Saving for a Sunny Day, or, the Benefits of Reincarnation" |
| 4 - | "The Great White Bed" |
| 6 - | "Ghost Town" |
| 7 - | "Point of Origin" |
| 6 - | "Born-Again" |
| 7 - | "Exit Strategy" |
| 7 - | "Kaleidoscope" |
| 7 - | "Dead Men on Vacation" |
| 5 - | "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" |
| 6 - | "The Fountain of Neptune" |
| 6 - | "Strangers When We Meet" |
| 5 - | "A Shadow Over the Land" |
| 5 - | "The Age of Ice" |
| 4 - | "Debatable Lands" |
| 7 - | "Ikiryoh" |
| 5 - | "La Gran Muerte" |
| 6 - | "Wolves of the Spirit" |
| 6 - | "Solidarity" |
| 4 - | "The Stonehenge Gate, part 1" |
| 7 - | "A Wizard of the Old School" |
| 6 - | "Penultima Thule" |
| 8 - | "Outgoing" |
| 6 - | "Bea and Her Bird Brother" |
| 5 - | "The Card" |
| 6 - | "Green Glass" |
| 6 - | "The Gunner's Mate" |
| 8 - | "Memorare" |
| 6 - | "An Art, Like Everything Else" |
| 6 - | "The Pitiless Stars" |
A rating of 5 indicates that I felt neutral about the story after having read it. Anything below 5 means that I considered reading the story to be a waste of my time.
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