In the anthology, Carniepunk.
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The Werewife — Jaye Wells
In the anthology, The Sweeter the Juice — Mark Henry
In the anthology, Enola — Alastair Reynolds
You’ll find this in the collection, Zima Blue and Other Stories.
A really enjoyable, short, post-apocalypse story. A bit confusing at first as it jumps back and forth between a human girl and an AI machine, but it all makes total sense at the end.
Next up from Alastair will be Digital to Analogue.
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Nunivak Snowflakes — Alastair Reynolds
You’ll find this in the anthology, Deep Navigation.
Messages from the future found inside fish falling from the sky landing in front of the person the message was meant for.
Basically, someone from the future is being naughty and messing with the past in an indigenous community in Alaska.
Other than The Big Hello, of which i have no idea when published, this is Alastair’s first published story. So it’s very early Alastair Reynolds, so don’t be expecting Revelation Space or anything like it.
But it’s a reasonable, quirky, little read that’ll keep you happily ensconced in you favourite reading pit for a while.
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The Demon Barker of Wheat Street — Kevin Hearne
In the anthology, The Three Lives of Lydia — Delilah S. Dawson
In the anthology, The Big Hello — Alastair Reynolds
It’s listed on Wikipedia without a date, but it’s first in the queue of Alastair’s uncollected short fiction, and it is The Big Hello, afterall, so you may as well read it first if you’re reading all of Alastair’s books: me thinks.
You’ll have to hunt around the internet for this, it was originally published in German translation in a convention program. But, like most rare things, it’s well worth a bit of a hunt around.
Basically, it’s a greeting from the rest of the galaxy informing us stupid Homo sapiens of a bit of etiquette, manners and how to go about things outside of out little insular bubble. But, let’s be honest, we all know people like Musk & Co. are going to ignore everything Alastair says and totally fuck it up for the rest of us.
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This Is Not Fame — Doug Stanhope
Painted Love — Rob Thurman
In the anthology, Carniepunk.
An enjoyable little story where our narrator, Doodle, follows a sociopath around a travelling carnival.
But all is not as it seems with Doodle, and it’s a really good twist to the ending. I’d definitely be interested in reading more stories from Doodle if Rob ever gets around to writing a series.