| 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.
| 7 - | "The Curandero and the Swede" |
| 4 - | "The Visit" |
| 5 - | "The Auctioneer and the Antiquarian, or, 1962" |
| 3 - | "Hair" |
| 8 - | "An Elvish Sword of Great Antiquity" |
| 6 - | "Leaving the Station" |
| 7 - | "Pipeline" |
| 4 - | "Safe!" |
| 6 - | "Advances in Modern Chemotherapy" |
| 6 - | "Someone Like You" |
| 7 - | "Ware of the Worlds" |
| 6 - | "Godburned" |
| 4 - | "The Lost Elephants of Kenyisha" |
| 6 - | "Pleased to Meetcha" |
| 5 - | "Rough Draft" |
| 5 - | "In the Space of Nine Lives" |
| 5 - | "Storm Poet" |
| 6 - | "A Rocket for the Republic" |
| 5 - | "Aisle 1047" |
| 7 - | "Alien Archaeology" |
| 6 - | "The Gabble" |
| 7 - | "Mason's Rats" |
| 6 - | "Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck" |
| 9 - | "Nightfall" |
| 7 - | "Telefunken Remix" |
| 6 - | "Bait" |
| 6 - | "The Calorie Man" |
| 7 - | "Pop Squad" |
| 7 - | "Pump Six" |
| 6 - | "The Tamarisk Hunter" |
| 3 - | "Yellow Card Man" |
| 6 - | "Eating at the End-of-the-World Café" |
| 2 - | "Silence" |
| 6 - | "Spells for Halloween: An Acrostic" |
| 7 - | "Bad Machine" |
| 6 - | "The Two Old Women" |
| 6 - | "Pages to Fill" |
| 6 - | "A Gift from the Culture" |
| 8 - | "Cleaning Up" |
| 7 - | "Descendent" |
| 6 - | "Odd Attachment" |
| 6 - | "Piece" |
| 6 - | "Road of Skulls" |
| 2 - | "Scratch" |
| 7 - | "The State of the Art" |
| 5 - | "D.O.C.S." |
| 6 - | "Radio Station St. Jack" |
| 4 - | "Slidin'" |
| 3 - | "Where" |
| 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 Sea of Dreams" |
| 5 - | "The Ghost Hunter's Beautiful Daughter" |
| 7 - | "Smoke City" |
| 6 - | "The Children of Time" |
| 6 - | "Earth II" |
| 7 - | "Earth III" |
| 5 - | "Ghost Wars" |
| 7 - | "The Ice Line" |
| 4 - | "The Ice War" |
| 3 - | "In the Abyss of Time" |
| 6 - | "El Regalo" |
| 9 - | "Two Hearts" |
| 6 - | "The Way It Works Out and All" |
| 8 - | "And the Deep Blue Sea" |
| 6 - | "Botticelli" |
| 8 - | "Catoyant" |
| 7 - | "Dolly" |
| 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" |
| 7 - | "Atomic Truth" |
| 5 - | "Dark Eden" |
| 5 - | "Day 29" |
| 6 - | "The Peacock Cloak" |
| 7 - | "The Perimeter" |
| 4 - | "Two Thieves" |
| 5 - | "Datacide" |
| 6 - | "The Most Important Thing in the World" |
| 6 - | "Nightmare" |
| 6 - | "Pelago" |
| 6 - | "A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange" |
| 6 - | "By the Time the Witchblood Blooms" |
| 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" |
| 7 - | "That Hell-Bound Train" |
| 7 - | "California Burning" |
| 6 - | "The Roberts" |
| 9 - | "Freia in the Sunlight" |
| 8 - | "Slow Boat" |
| 5 - | "The Union of Soil and Sky" |
| 8 - | "A History of Cadmium" |
| 6 - | "Re-Entry Shock" |
| 4 - | "The Supersonic Zeppelin" |
| 8 - | "Angry Duck" |
| 6 - | "Dazzle Joins the Screenwriter's Guild" |
| 6 - | "Dazzle the Pundit" |
| 3 - | "Starship Dazzle" |
| 6 - | "Watch Bees" |
| 7 - | "Mars Opposition" |
| 5 - | "Dead Air" |
| 3 - | "Flowers of Asphodel" |
| 7 - | "The Qualia Engine" |
| 6 - | "This Wind Blowing, and This Tide" |
| 5 - | "Uncle Bones" |
| 5 - | "Cold Testing" |
| 7 - | "The Borders of Infinity" |
| 6 - | "Labyrinth" |
| 6 - | "The Mountains of Mourning" |
| 7 - | "Bodyguard" |
| 8 - | "Overtaken" |
| 7 - | "Spiders" |
| 3 - | "Seventy-Five Years" |
| 7 - | "The Turn" |
| 3 - | "Fog" |
| 8 - | "The Night We Buried Road Dog" |
| 7 - | "Balancing Accounts" |
| 5 - | "The Dinosaur Train" |
| 6 - | "How Seosiris Lost the Favor of the King" |
| 6 - | "Parsifal (Prix Fixe)" |
| 7 - | "A Lovely Little Christmas Fire" |
| 7 - | "Gun Fight at the Sugerloaf Pet Food & Taxidermy" |
| 6 - | "Planet of the Sealies" |
| 7 - | "The Tale of Nameless Chameleon" |
| 5 - | "The Tiger in the Garden" |
| 7 - | "Perfect Stranger" |
| 5 - | "The Last Apostle" |
| 6 - | "Skull Valley" |
| 7 - | "Two Weeks After" |
| 6 - | "Dance of Shadows" |
| 6 - | "The Diamond Shadow" |
| 5 - | "Shadow of the Valley" |
| 7 - | "Thief of Shadows" |
| 4 - | "Uncle Moon in the Raintree Hills" |
| 7 - | "Five Thousand Light Years from Birdland" |
| 7 - | "Soldier of the Singularity" |
| 8 - | "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" |
| 8 - | "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" |
| 7 - | "Less Stately Mansions" |
| 9 - | "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" |
| 7 - | "Orfy" |
| 3 - | "Icarus Saved from the Skies" |
| 5 - | "Ashes on the Water" |
| 7 - | "John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner" |
| 5 - | "The Flowers of Nicosia" |
| 6 - | "The Kewlest Thing of All" |
| 6 - | "Out of the Dream Closet" |
| 6 - | "46 Directions, None of Them North" |
| 7 - | "Chainsaw on Hand" |
| 7 - | "Cowgirls in Space" |
| 6 - | "The Whale's Lover" |
| 6 - | "1 Is True" |
| 6 - | "Daughters of Prime" |
| 6 - | "The Others" |
| 7 - | "In Their Garden" |
| 6 - | "The King's Tail" |
| 7 - | "How It Unfolds" |
| 7 - | "The Copenhagen Interpretation" |
| 3 - | "The Ghiling Blade" |
| 7 - | "Journey to Gantica" |
| 6 - | "The Song of Kido" |
| 3 - | "Summer Frost" |
| 8 - | "A Large Bucket, and Accidental Godlike Mastery of Spacetime" |
| 6 - | "Centaurs" |
| 7 - | "Petopia" |
| 8 - | "Tear-Down" |
| 6 - | "Whatness" |
| 6 - | "Wheat Rust" |
| 7 - | "Car 17" |
| 6 - | "Monkey See..." |
| 5 - | "Twelvers" |
| 6 - | "No Distance Too Great" |
| 8 - | "An Open Letter to Earth" |
| 5 - | "Enfant Terrible" |
| 6 - | "Café Culture" |
| 6 - | "The Fairy Princess" |
| 7 - | "Bronsky's Dates with Death" |
| 4 - | "Babel 3000" |
| 6 - | "The Certainty Principle" |
| 4 - | "The Fighter" |
| 5 - | "Czesko" |
| 3 - | "Night Gauntlet" |
| 6 - | "The Jaguar House, In Shadow" |
| 4 - | "Shipbirth" |
| 6 - | "The Waiting Stars" |
| 8 - | "The Wind-Blown Man" |
| 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" |
| 4 - | "Walking Stick Fires" |
| 5 - | "Anise" |
| 6 - | "A Pocketful of Faces" |
| 7 - | "The Secret Sutras of Sally Strumpet" |
| 8 - | "The Brave Little Toaster" |
| 5 - | "The Wall of America" |
| 5 - | "Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita" |
| 6 - | "Counterfactual" |
| 6 - | "When the Great Days Came" |
| 6 - | "Shadow Twin" |
| 7 - | "Illusions of Tranquility" |
| 6 - | "Memory Work" |
| 6 - | "The World and Alice" |
| 6 - | "Señora Suerte" |
| 7 - | "Amor Fugit" |
| 7 - | "Bad Matter" |
| 3 - | "The Door in the Earth" |
| 7 - | "Rampion" |
| 6 - | "Swamp City Lament" |
| 6 - | "The Bone Man" |
| 8 - | "Dark Integers" |
| 6 - | "All the News That's Fit" |
| 5 - | "At Sixes and Sevens" |
| 6 - | "The Bird Painter in Time of War" |
| 4 - | "Danilo" |
| 6 - | "I Live With You" |
| 6 - | "Killers" |
| 5 - | "Logicist" |
| 6 - | "The Lovely Ugly" |
| 6 - | "Master of the Road to Nowhere" |
| 6 - | "The Perfect Infestation" |
| 4 - | "The Seducer" |
| 6 - | "Uncle E" |
| 6 - | "Whoever" |
| 5 - | "Wilds" |
| 7 - | "Wilmer or Wesley" |
| 6 - | "World of No Return" |
| 6 - | "The Mole Cure" |
| 7 - | "Elegy" |
| 2 - | "Rising Waters" |
| 6 - | "The Evening and the Morning" |
| 6 - | "First Was the Word" |
| 7 - | "Adrift" |
| 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" |
| 6 - | "Free Elections" |
| 7 - | "Ghost Wind" |
| 5 - | "The Last Akialoa" |
| 6 - | "Always" |
| 6 - | "Leonid Skies" |
| 6 - | "We Are the Cat" |
| 8 - | "Terms of Engagement" |
| 6 - | "The Real Deal" |
| 5 - | "Voyage to the Moon" |
| 7 - | "At These Prices" |
| 8 - | "The Beau and the Beast" |
| 4 - | "The Fraud" |
| 6 - | "Helen Remembers the Stork Club" |
| 7 - | "Last Man Standing" |
| 7 - | "The One That Got Away" |
| 7 - | "Rutger and Baby Do Jotenheim" |
| 7 - | "Backlash" |
| 7 - | "Movement" |
| 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 - | "SinBad the Sand Sailor" |
| 7 - | "Teen Angel" |
| 6 - | "Wife-Stealing Time" |
| 7 - | "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" |
| 6 - | "Stratosphere" |
| 7 - | "As Women Fight" |
| 6 - | "Malick Pan" |
| 4 - | "Prayers for an Egg" |
| 7 - | "Shoes-to-Run" |
| 5 - | "Sins of the Father" |
| 5 - | "Slow Stampede" |
| 6 - | "Waster Mercy" |
| 7 - | "Andreanna" |
| 7 - | "The Old Terrologist's Tale" |
| 6 - | "Rebecca's Locket" |
| 7 - | "Red Card" |
| 6 - | "Who Brought Tulips to the Moon?" |
| 7 - | "Arkfall" |
| 8 - | "Economancer" |
| 6 - | "Okanoggan Falls" |
| 8 - | "Unforseen" |
| 6 - | "Seven Sins for Seven Dwarves" |
| 6 - | "Away from Here" |
| 6 - | "Dark Rooms" |
| 5 - | "Lilyanna" |
| 8 - | "Paradise is a Walled Garden" |
| 7 - | "Reader's Guide" |
| 6 - | "The Bridge" |
| 7 - | "Memory Dog" |
| 5 - | "Pug" |
| 4 - | "Cannibal Farm" |
| 6 - | "The Devil Bats Will Be a Little Late This Year" |
| 7 - | "I Waltzed with a Zombie" |
| 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" |
| 7 - | "The Armies of Elfland" |
| 4 - | "Uncreated Night and Strange Shadows" |
| 7 - | "Foreclosure" |
| 6 - | "Never Blood Enough" |
| 6 - | "The Gypsy's Boy" |
| 8 - | "Echo" |
| 5 - | "The Far Shore" |
| 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" |
| 5 - | "The Ink Readers of Doi Saket" |
| 6 - | "Listening for Submarines" |
| 8 - | "Domovoi" |
| 7 - | "PowerSuit TM" |
| 4 - | "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentle Ghosts" |
| 7 - | "Clap Back" |
| 4 - | "A Neurological Study on the Effects of Canine Appeal on Psychopathy, or, RIO ADOPTS A PUPPY" |
| 7 - | "An Examination of Collegial Dynamics as Expressed Through Marksmanship, or, LADIES' DAY OUT" |
| 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" |
| 8 - | "Hell of a Fix" |
| 6 - | "Help Wonted" |
| 6 - | "The Helper and His Hero, Part 1" |
| 6 - | "The Helper and His Hero, Part 2" |
| 6 - | "Hunchster" |
| 4 - | "Inner Huff" |
| 6 - | "The Meaning of Luff" |
| 6 - | "Petri Parousia" |
| 6 - | "Shadow Man" |
| 6 - | "Sweet Trap" |
| 6 - | "Thwarting Jabbi Gloond" |
| 6 - | "Dragon's Teeth" |
| 5 - | "The Golems of Detroit" |
| 6 - | "The Lorelei" |
| 7 - | "Mystery Hill" |
| 4 - | "Remotest Mansions of the Blood" |
| 5 - | "Shambhala" |
| 6 - | "Wizard's Six" |
| 7 - | "Blind Cat Dance" |
| 6 - | "The Boarder" |
| 6 - | "Brain Raid" |
| 7 - | "The Day the Wires Came Down" |
| 5 - | "Dead Man" |
| 5 - | "Plinth without Figure" |
| 8 - | "Warning Label" |
| 7 - | "Wrong Number" |
| 6 - | "A Friendly Little Oasis" |
| 5 - | "The Bad Hamburger" |
| 6 - | "California King" |
| 6 - | "Firooz and His Brother" |
| 8 - | "Emergency Skin" |
| 8 - | "Not the End" |
| 6 - | "Sooner or Later or Never Never" |
| 6 - | "Back to Moab" |
| 7 - | "Pairs" |
| 6 - | "Sea Wrack" |
| 9 - | "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" |
| 7 - | "Names for Water" |
| 5 - | "Another Country" |
| 6 - | "The Coldest War" |
| 7 - | "Lagos" |
| 6 - | "The Ninth Part of Desire" |
| 6 - | "Public Safety" |
| 6 - | "The Tomb Wife" |
| 4 - | "do(this)" |
| 7 - | "Beneath Sunlit Shallows" |
| 7 - | "The Ramshead Algorithm" |
| 5 - | "Poor Guy" |
| 3 - | "Search Continues for Elderly Man" |
| 6 - | "Don't Stop" |
| 7 - | "The Edge of Nowhere" |
| 6 - | "Going Deep" |
| 5 - | "Happy Ending 2.0" |
| 8 - | "The Leila Torn Show" |
| 5 - | "Plus or Minus" |
| 6 - | "Surprise Party" |
| 6 - | "Clean" |
| 4 - | "The Closet" |
| 5 - | "The Last American" |
| 5 - | "The Motorman's Coat" |
| 7 - | "Pride and Prometheus" |
| 4 - | "Sunlight or Rock" |
| 4 - | "Earthtime" |
| 7 - | "The Other Graces" |
| 6 - | "Fireflies" |
| 5 - | "Nova Terra" |
| 7 - | "The Art of Alchemy" |
| 5 - | "Bitterseed" |
| 9 - | "Divining Light" |
| 7 - | "The God Engine" |
| 6 - | "The Prophet of Flores" |
| 7 - | "Blood Dauber" |
| 7 - | "The Consciousness Problem" |
| 8 - | "For Want of a Nail" |
| 8 - | "Kiss Me Twice" |
| 9 - | "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" |
| 7 - | "Act One" |
| 7 - | "By Fools Like Me" |
| 6 - | "Call Back Yesterday" |
| 6 - | "Deadly Sins" |
| 6 - | "End Game" |
| 7 - | "The Erdmann Nexus" |
| 8 - | "Exegesis" |
| 7 - | "Fountain of Age" |
| 5 - | "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls" |
| 6 - | "The Rules" |
| 7 - | "Safeguard" |
| 6 - | "Sex and Violence" |
| 6 - | "Unintended Behavior" |
| 8 - | "A Wild and Wicked Youth" |
| 6 - | "Red-Cloak" |
| 9 - | "The Death of the Duke" |
| 8 - | "The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death" |
| 8 - | "The Goddamned Tooth Fairy" |
| 6 - | "A Tale of Heroes" |
| 6 - | "A Woman's Weapon" |
| 7 - | "Friendly Fire" |
| 7 - | "Keys" |
| 7 - | "Oathblood" |
| 7 - | "Spring Planting at Forst Reach" |
| 6 - | "Sword-sworn" |
| 6 - | "The Making of a Legend" |
| 5 - | "The Talisman" |
| 4 - | "Turnabout" |
| 6 - | "Wings of Fire" |
| 5 - | "Childrun" |
| 6 - | "Quickstone" |
| 7 - | "Songwood" |
| 4 - | "Sweetmeats" |
| 7 - | "Dark Flowers, Inverse Moon" |
| 5 - | "Martyrs' Carnival" |
| 4 - | "Welcome to Valhalla" |
| 7 - | "Betting on Eureka" |
| 8 - | "Marya and the Pirate" |
| 2 - | "Still on the Road" |
| 7 - | "The Sultan of the Clouds" |
| 6 - | "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers" |
| 6 - | "City of the Dog" |
| 6 - | "How the Day Runs Down" |
| 6 - | "The Revel" |
| 4 - | "The Man Inside Black Betty" |
| 6 - | "The Arts of the Enemy" |
| 7 - | "If Looks Could Kill" |
| 6 - | "Leaks" |
| 1 - | "The War Against the Yukks" |
| 4 - | "Worldmaster" |
| 6 - | "We Travel the Spaceways" |
| 7 - | "The Alarming Letters from Scottsdale" |
| 6 - | "Fallen Idols" |
| 8 - | "Canterbury Hollow" |
| 4 - | "The Long Game" |
| 2 - | "Bounty" |
| 7 - | "Class Trip" |
| 6 - | "Litany" |
| 4 - | "Picnic on Pentacost" |
| 9 - | "Three Leaves of Aloe" |
| 5 - | "Cold Fire" |
| 6 - | "The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald" |
| 8 - | "Torhec the Sculptor" |
| 8 - | "The Bones of Giants" |
| 6 - | "Eating Hearts" |
| 9 - | "The Unstrung Zither" |
| 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 - | "Why that Crazy Old Lady Goes up the Mountain" |
| 6 - | "Atalanta Loses at the Interpantheonic Trivia Bee" |
| 6 - | "Just Do It" |
| 7 - | "Where the Time Goes" |
| 5 - | "Waking Chang-Er" |
| 6 - | "Magic for Beginners" |
| 7 - | "Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer" |
| 9 - | "The Literomancer" |
| 6 - | "The Paper Menagerie" |
| 4 - | "The Advocate" |
| 7 - | "Alten Kameraden" |
| 7 - | "The Monopoly Man" |
| 6 - | "A Few Good Men" |
| 5 - | "Jack B. Goode and the Neo-Modern Prometheus" |
| 7 - | "The Speed of Dreams" |
| 3 - | "We Were Wonder Scouts" |
| 6 - | "12:02 p.m." |
| 6 - | "Home Sweet Bi'Ome" |
| 8 - | "The Cold Step Beyond" |
| 6 - | "The English Mutiny" |
| 8 - | "The Hob Carpet" |
| 8 - | "The Master Miller's Tale" |
| 5 - | "Recrossing the Styx" |
| 6 - | "Flotsam" |
| 6 - | "North Shore Friday" |
| 5 - | "The Personal Touch" |
| 6 - | "Bright Moment" |
| 5 - | "Out of the Box" |
| 6 - | "Osama Phone Home" |
| 4 - | "The Window of Time" |
| 6 - | "The Final Flight of the Blue Bee" |
| 7 - | "To the East, A Bright Star" |
| 6 - | "Blue Fire" |
| 6 - | "The Boy in Zaquitos" |
| 4 - | "Cold War" |
| 6 - | "Hero, the Movie" |
| 6 - | "Kin" |
| 7 - | "The Lion" |
| 6 - | "The Messenger" |
| 6 - | "Poison" |
| 5 - | "Spell" |
| 6 - | "The Woman Who Waited Forever" |
| 6 - | "Dead Men Walking" |
| 5 - | "The Choice" |
| 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" |
| 5 - | "Fifth Day" |
| 8 - | "The Djinn's Wife" |
| 9 - | "The Little Goddess" |
| 4 - | "The Monsters of Morgan Island" |
| 8 - | "Dreams and Slumbers" |
| 4 - | "Hope Is Swift" |
| 6 - | "Of Things Unknown" |
| 6 - | "Shine in Pearl" |
| 9 - | "Suffer a Sea-Change" |
| 6 - | "Interloper" |
| 6 - | "Sleepless in the House of Ye" |
| 7 - | "Bridesicle" |
| 6 - | "Frankenstein, Frankenstein" |
| 6 - | "Midnight Blue" |
| 7 - | "Unlikely" |
| 7 - | "The Art of the Dragon" |
| 4 - | "The Precedent" |
| 7 - | "The Spiral Briar" |
| 6 - | "The Twilight Year" |
| 7 - | "A Thing Forbidden" |
| 4 - | "iKlawa" |
| 6 - | "Spider Hill" |
| 5 - | "The Boy Who Sang for Others" |
| 5 - | "Snail Stones" |
| 8 - | "The Summer of the Seven" |
| 7 - | "The Walls of the Universe" |
| 6 - | "Shadow Angel" |
| 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 - | "Winding Broomcorn" |
| 6 - | "The Darkness Between" |
| 6 - | "Catalog" |
| 8 - | "Falling Angel" |
| 6 - | "The Palace in the Clouds" |
| 7 - | "The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations" |
| 7 - | "Eddie's Ants" |
| 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" |
| 4 - | "The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond" |
| 8 - | "Feather and Ring" |
| 7 - | "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" |
| 6 - | "Rainmakers" |
| 5 - | "Battlefield Games" |
| 6 - | "Cascading Violet Hair" |
| 4 - | "Dummy Tricks" |
| 7 - | "Grandma Said" |
| 7 - | "Intelligence" |
| 6 - | "Not Worth a Cent" |
| 5 - | "Organs R Us" |
| 5 - | "Studies in the Field" |
| 3 - | "Passing Perry Crater Base, Time Uncertain" |
| 6 - | "Kath and Quicksilver" |
| 6 - | "Brothers of the River" |
| 7 - | "Long Time" |
| 2 - | "The Spaceman" |
| 4 - | "Black Deer" |
| 8 - | "Maze of Trees" |
| 7 - | "The Moment of Joy Before" |
| 8 - | "Another Life" |
| 7 - | "Writers of the Future" |
| 6 - | "The Black Pages" |
| 8 - | "Just Out of Jupiter's Reach" |
| 7 - | "The Company Man" |
| 6 - | "All in Fun" |
| 6 - | "Her Heart's Desire" |
| 7 - | "Planning Ahead" |
| 7 - | "The Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe" |
| 4 - | "Republic" |
| 7 - | "God in the Sky" |
| 4 - | "Fragrant Goddess" |
| 3 - | "Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" |
| 5 - | "Gabe's Globster" |
| 4 - | "The Long, Cold Goodbye" |
| 6 - | "Three Days of Rain" |
| 7 - | "Generations" |
| 7 - | "Forever" |
| 7 - | "Immortal Snake" |
| 7 - | "Agent of Change" |
| 6 - | "Another Perfect Day" |
| 6 - | "Bread and Circus" |
| 6 - | "The Crocodiles" |
| 7 - | "The Great Caruso" |
| 7 - | "Holding Pattern" |
| 7 - | "Jackie's-Boy" |
| 7 - | "The Secret Lives of Fairy Tales" |
| 6 - | "Two Boys" |
| 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 - | "Clockworks" |
| 6 - | "Close" |
| 6 - | "Helping Them Take the Old Man Down" |
| 4 - | "You Will Go to the Moon" |
| 7 - | "A Dying Fall" |
| 5 - | "Eve of Beyond" |
| 5 - | "Paradise Last" |
| 7 - | "A Response from EST17" |
| 7 - | "Bank Run" |
| 7 - | "Controlled Experiment" |
| 7 - | "Haggle Chips" |
| 6 - | "The Mists of Time" |
| 6 - | "Sepoy Fidelities" |
| 6 - | "Warfriends" |
| 6 - | "Kallakak's Cousins" |
| 5 - | "The Dark Boy" |
| 7 - | "Lázaro y Antonio" |
| 4 - | "Make-Believe" |
| 5 - | "Biodad" |
| 4 - | "The Blight Family Singers" |
| 5 - | "Camp Nowhere" |
| 7 - | "Monkey Do" |
| 6 - | "What Wolves Know" |
| 7 - | "The Battle of Little Big Science" |
| 7 - | "Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders" |
| 6 - | "The Bride of Frankenstein" |
| 7 - | "Distant Replay" |
| 4 - | "Down Memory Lane" |
| 6 - | "The Homecoming" |
| 6 - | "The Incarceration of Captain Nebula" |
| 7 - | "Soulmates" |
| 8 - | "...With/By Good Intentions" |
| 6 - | "A Birth" |
| 3 - | "Falling Bodies" |
| 7 - | "Companion to Owls" |
| 7 - | "The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small" |
| 6 - | "Wonder House" |
| 8 - | "Boon" |
| 6 - | "Lucy" |
| 8 - | "Crumbs" |
| 6 - | "Horse-Year Women" |
| 7 - | "It's a Wonderful Life" |
| 6 - | "Bring on the Rain" |
| 8 - | "The Frog Comrade" |
| 7 - | "Stray" |
| 8 - | "Breeze from the Stars" |
| 5 - | "The Egg Man" |
| 7 - | "Green Shift" |
| 7 - | "Gypsy Tail Wind" |
| 7 - | "Home Movies" |
| 7 - | "Horse Racing" |
| 8 - | "Lion Walk" |
| 7 - | "A Borrowed Heart" |
| 6 - | "The Price of Silence" |
| 4 - | "Ark" |
| 6 - | "Void" |
| 7 - | "Another Word for Map is Faith" |
| 6 - | "Chu and the Nants" |
| 4 - | "The Fnoor Hen" |
| 5 - | "Post-Singular" |
| 4 - | "The Perfect Wave" |
| 4 - | "Colliding Branes" |
| 5 - | "Hormiga Canyon" |
| 7 - | "Amelia Pillar's Etiquette for the Space Traveler" |
| 8 - | "Becalmed" |
| 9 - | "Becoming One with the Ghosts" |
| 8 - | "Broken Windchimes" |
| 7 - | "Crunchers, Inc." |
| 8 - | "Diving into the Wreck" |
| 7 - | "Dunyon" |
| 8 - | "Except the Music" |
| 7 - | "Killer Advice" |
| 6 - | "Killing Time" |
| 8 - | "Recovering Apollo 8" |
| 7 - | "The Room of Lost Souls" |
| 7 - | "The Spires of Denon" |
| 7 - | "The Tower" |
| 6 - | "Turbulence" |
| 5 - | "The Second Descent" |
| 6 - | "These Alien Skies" |
| 3 - | "Time and Tide" |
| 6 - | "Blocked" |
| 7 - | "Days of Wonder" |
| 8 - | "The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai" |
| 9 - | "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)" |
| 9 - | "What We Found" |
| 5 - | "Messiah Excelsa" |
| 7 - | "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" |
| 6 - | "Amba" |
| 7 - | "Angel Kills" |
| 8 - | "Defending Elysium" |
| 6 - | "After I Stopped Screaming" |
| 5 - | "Mindband" |
| 6 - | "A Daze in the Life" |
| 6 - | "The Witch of Corinth" |
| 2 - | "Slow Time Between the Stars" |
| 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" |
| 4 - | "Signs of Life" |
| 7 - | "Dr. Death vs. the Vampire" |
| 7 - | "Memory of a Thing That Never Was" |
| 6 - | "The Dodo Factory" |
| 7 - | "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" |
| 5 - | "Foster" |
| 6 - | "2043... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" |
| 9 - | "Epidapheles and the Inadequately Enraged Demon" |
| 8 - | "Epidapheles and the Insufficiently Affectionate Ocelot" |
| 7 - | "Dead Money" |
| 7 - | "Halloween Town" |
| 7 - | "Stars Seen Through Stone" |
| 7 - | "Walpurgis Afternoon" |
| 8 - | "Under the Graying Sea" |
| 6 - | "Animus Rights" |
| 6 - | "The Cathedral of Universal Biodiversity" |
| 6 - | "Late Show" |
| 3 - | "Cruel Sistah" |
| 6 - | "Apocalypse Daily" |
| 9 - | "Burgerdroid" |
| 7 - | "Conditional Love" |
| 7 - | "The Termite Queen of Tallulah County" |
| 7 - | "The Capacity to Appear Mindless" |
| 8 - | "Old As Books" |
| 7 - | "Refried Clichés: A Five-Course Meal" |
| 7 - | "Inclination" |
| 7 - | "The Witch, the Tinman, the Flies" |
| 6 - | "Against the Current" |
| 5 - | "The Eater of Dreams" |
| 6 - | "The End of the Line" |
| 4 - | "Hanosz Prime Goes to Old Earth" |
| 6 - | "The Way They Wove the Spells in Sippulgar" |
| 4 - | "Are You There" |
| 5 - | "The Avenger of Love" |
| 7 - | "Bean There" |
| 4 - | "Cat in the Rain" |
| 6 - | "The Chimera Transit" |
| 5 - | "The Flow and Dream" |
| 6 - | "Girl in the Empty Apartment" |
| 6 - | "Human Day" |
| 6 - | "Life on the Preservation" |
| 4 - | "Overlay" |
| 6 - | "Scrawl Daddy" |
| 6 - | "Strangers on a Bus" |
| 6 - | "Thank You, Mr. Whiskers" |
| 6 - | "What You Are About to See" |
| 5 - | "The Real Martian Chronicles" |
| 7 - | "A Token of a Better Age" |
| 6 - | "An Alien Heresy" |
| 7 - | "The Second Kalandar's Tale" |
| 3 - | "Bright Red Star" |
| 6 - | "Stone and the Librarian" |
| 6 - | "The Music of the Sphere" |
| 5 - | "Iris" |
| 6 - | "Rumple What?" |
| 7 - | "You Are Such a One" |
| 5 - | "Doctor Muffet's Island" |
| 7 - | "Following the Pharmers" |
| 5 - | "The Great Armada" |
| 7 - | "The Philosopher's Stone" |
| 6 - | "The Plurality of Worlds" |
| 3 - | "Some Like It Hot" |
| 6 - | "The Trial" |
| 6 - | "Prodigal" |
| 7 - | "Camera Obscured" |
| 3 - | "Under the Thumb of the Brain Patrol" |
| 3 - | "Spew" |
| 5 - | "The Great Simoleon Caper" |
| 5 - | "The Blemmye's Strategem" |
| 6 - | "The Denial" |
| 7 - | "Esoteric City" |
| 6 - | "The Exterminator's Want Ad" |
| 6 - | "Kiosk" |
| 6 - | "Christmas at Hostage Canyon" |
| 7 - | "The First Editions" |
| 7 - | "The Ifs of Time" |
| 4 - | "The Star to Every Wandering Barque" |
| 7 - | "The Atrocity Archive" |
| 7 - | "The Concrete Jungle" |
| 6 - | "Trunk and Disorderly" |
| 6 - | "Inside Time" |
| 4 - | "The Nocturnal Adventure of Dr. O and Mr. D" |
| 4 - | "Planetesimal Dawn" |
| 6 - | "Star-Crossed" |
| 6 - | "Way Down East" |
| 6 - | "Shed that Guilt! Double Your Productivity Overnight!" |
| 5 - | "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" |
| 4 - | "Dreadnought Neptune" |
| 2 - | "Corn Teeth" |
| 6 - | "In Concert" |
| 5 - | "Bare, Forked Animal" |
| 7 - | "A Letter from the Emperor" |
| 4 - | "The Day Before the Day Before" |
| 3 - | "Visitors" |
| 6 - | "The Economy of Vacuum" |
| 6 - | "Snowfall" |
| 4 - | "Fergus" |
| 5 - | "I.D.I.D." |
| 5 - | "Pericles the Tyrant" |
| 5 - | "The Exchange Officers" |
| 7 - | "You Have Arrived at Your Destination" |
| 5 - | "The Last Conversation" |
| 7 - | "Circle" |
| 3 - | "Bedfellows" |
| 3 - | "Getting Real" |
| 5 - | "He Woke in Darkness" |
| 2 - | "News from the Front" |
| 5 - | "The 400-Million-Year Itch" |
| 5 - | "Diluvium" |
| 5 - | "Perfect Everything" |
| 7 - | "The Point" |
| 7 - | "Promised Land" |
| 6 - | "Silv'ry Moon" |
| 4 - | "Sleepless Years" |
| 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" |
| 7 - | "Retrograde Summer" |
| 4 - | "Marrying In" |
| 6 - | "The Compass" |
| 6 - | "Parachute Kid" |
| 4 - | "Opera Vita Aeterna" |
| 7 - | "Cold Comfort" |
| 7 - | "Burning Bibles" |
| 3 - | "Superluminosity" |
| 6 - | "Botanical Exercises for Curious Girls" |
| 6 - | "Lover of Statues" |
| 7 - | "Saving for a Sunny Day, or, the Benefits of Reincarnation" |
| 5 - | "Fine Green Dust" |
| 4 - | "The Great White Bed" |
| 2 - | "Randomize" |
| 6 - | "Ghost Town" |
| 7 - | "Point of Origin" |
| 6 - | "Born-Again" |
| 7 - | "Exit Strategy" |
| 7 - | "Kaleidoscope" |
| 6 - | "Variations" |
| 7 - | "Dead Men on Vacation" |
| 7 - | "Money Is No Object" |
| 7 - | "Accident" |
| 7 - | "Combined Operation" |
| 6 - | "Investigation" |
| 6 - | "Survivor" |
| 5 - | "Changeling" |
| 6 - | "Nanosferatu" |
| 7 - | "A Foreign Country" |
| 6 - | "Adaptogenia" |
| 7 - | "Several Items of Interest" |
| 4 - | "Blind Spot" |
| 5 - | "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" |
| 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" |
| 6 - | "The Final Verse" |
| 4 - | "The Stonehenge Gate, part 1" |
| 7 - | "A Wizard of the Old School" |
| 6 - | "Penultima Thule" |
| 7 - | "Sails the Morne" |
| 8 - | "Outgoing" |
| 3 - | "Going Back in Time" |
| 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" |
| 4 - | "Angie's Errand" |
| 6 - | "Lost in the Memory Palace, I Found You" |
| 6 - | "On the Horizon" |
| 1 - | "Ping" |
| 5 - | "One Bright Star to Guide Them" |
| 6 - | "Stone Wall Truth" |
| 6 - | "The Pitiless Stars" |
| 5 - | "The Whirlwind" |
| 6 - | "My Heart As Dry As Dust" |
| 7 - | "Blue" |
| 8 - | "Ticket Inspector Gliden Becomes the First Martyr of the Glorious Human Uprising" |
| 6 - | "Usurpers" |
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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