While there are still a few hours left in September, I doubt I’ll get any more short fiction read this month, especially since the Yankees open the division playoffs tonight at 8:30. You know where I’ll be. But since I wrote a while back about at least trying to read a piece of short fiction every day, I thought I’d start posting the lists of the short fiction I read each month here on the blog. Titles, authors and the magazine or book in which I read it is listed. The date at the end of each line is the date on which I read the stories. Bold stories are ones which I particularly enjoyed.
- “The Observation Post” by Allen Steele (Asimov’s, September 2011) [9/2/11]
- “Stalker” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s, September 2011) [9/2/11]
- “Jay Score” by Eric Frank Russell (Astounding, May 1941) [9/2/11]
- “Fish Story” by Vic Phillips and Scott Roberts (Astounding, May 1941) [9/3/11]
- “Subcruiser” by Harry Walton (Astounding, May 1941) [9/3/11]
- “The Stolen Dormouse, Part 2” by L. Sprague de Camp (Astounding, May 1941) [9/4/11]
- “Sleeping Dogs” by Joe Haldeman (Year’s Best Science Fiction 28th Annual Edition) [9/5/2011]
- “The Emperor of Mars” by Allen Steele (Year’s Best Science Fiction 28th Annual Edition) [9/6/11]
- “Bubbles” by David Brin (Lightspeed, September 2011) [9/9/11]
- “Dig Site” by Jack McDevitt (Analog, November 2011) [9/10/11]
- “Ian, Isaac and John” by Paul Levinson (Analog, November 2011) [9/10/11]
- “Overtaken” by Karl Bunker (F&SF, September 2011) [9/11/11]
- “A Hundred Hundred Daisies” by Nancy Kress (Asimov’s, November 2011) [9/11/11]
- “Again and Again and Again” by Rachel Swirsky (Year’s Beset Science Fiction 28th Annual Edition) [9/11/11]
- “Pack” by Robert Reed (Clarkesworld, September 2011) [9/11/11]
- “Signals in the Deep” by Greg Mellor (Clarkesworld, September 2011) [9/11/11]
- “Time Wants a Skeleton” by Ross Rocklynne (Astounding, June 1941) [9/11/11]
- “The Lycanthropic Principle” by Carl Frederick (Analog, October 2011) [9/11/11]
- “Hetero3” by Robert Reed (Daily Science Fiction, 9/12/11) [9/12/11]
- “Artnan Process” by Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding, June 2011) [9/17/2011]
- “Exit Stage Life” by Cate Gardner (Daily Science Fiction, 9/22/11) [9/22/11]
- “Devil’s Powder” by Malcolm Jameson (Astounding, June 1941) [9/26/2011]
So, not exactly a story each day, but I’ll get there. And it should give you some insight into how I try to keep up with the various science fiction venues that are out there.
What short fiction did you read in September?