Episode 074 – Short Story Collections

April 2, 2019

This episode we’re reading Short Story Collections! We talk about the differences between collections and anthologies, when a short story is too long, futurespeak, and how little Charles Dickens knows about writing. Plus: Accidentally buying Canadians.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva
Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
Gutshot by Amelia Gray
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by N.K. Jemisin
Three Deaths by Josip Novakovich
Fantastic Adventures
How Long till Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin
Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville
Her Bodies and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
- Hark! Episode 212: Strawberry Equinox (with the neck ribbon story)
Gothic Tales of Haunted Love edited by Hope Nicholson and S.M. Beiko
Other books Meghan read
- Useful Phrases for Immigration by May-lee Chai
- Wedding in Autumn and Other Stories by Chiung-Yu Shih
- Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories by Yukiko Motoya
- The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada
- A Manual for Cleaning Women: Collected Stories by Lucia Berlin
- Bad Endings by Carleigh Baker

Can RJ Recommend a Book by a Trans Author in this Genre?

Other Media We Mention

Hellboy Series
Itty Bitty Hellboy by Art Baltazar and Franco
Flight Series
Beyond: the Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology
Lightspeed Magazine
Strange Horizons
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Zombies Vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black
Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (anthology with a story by RJ!)

Links, Articles, and Things

Nebula Rules
- Short Story: less than 7,500 words;
- Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less than 17,500 words;
- Novella: at least 17,500 words but less than 40,000 words
- Novel: 40,000 words or more.
- Game Writing: An interactive or playable story-driven work which conveys narrative, character, or story background.
Picaresque novel
January 1998 North American ice storm