Category: Collections
Belladonna Nights and Other Stories — Alastair Reynolds
I’ve rearranged the stories into date order, rather than the order they are in the collection: coz that’s juse how i roll, darlings. Obviously, you can read them in any order you chose as well.
Revelation Space
Night Passage – 2017
Standalones
Different Seas – 2018
For the Ages – 2011
Visiting Hours – 2017
Holdfast – 2017
The Lobby – 2013
A Map of Mercury – 2013
Magic Bone Woman – 2011
Providence – 2018
Wrecking Party – 2014
Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee – 2016
Death’s Door – 2018
A Murmuration – 2015
Open and Shut – 2021
Plague Music – 2021
House of Suns
Belladonna Nights – 2017
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences — Ursula K. Le Guin
Come Into Animal Presence – 1961 • poem by Denise Levertov
Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight – 1987 • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
Three Rock Poems – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flints – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Basalt – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
Mount St. Helens/Omphalos – 1975 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Wife’s Story” and “Mazes” – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
Mazes – 1975
The Wife’s Story – 1982
Five Vegetable Poems – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
Torrey Pines Reserve – 1980 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lewis and Clark and After – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
West Texas – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Crown of Laurel – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
Xmas Over – 1984 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Direction of the Road” and “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
Direction of the Road – 1973
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow – 1971 • Hainish
Seven Bird and Beast Poems – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
What is Going on in the Oaks Around the Barn – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
For Ted – 1975 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
Found Poem – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
Totem – 1981 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Man Eater – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
Winter Downs – 1981 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sleeping Out – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The White Donkey” and “Horse Camp” – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
The White Donkey – 1980
Horse Camp – 1986
Four Cat Poems – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
Black Leonard in Negative Space – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tabby Lorenzo – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Conversation with a Silence – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson – 1987 • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Schrödinger’s Cat” and “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
Schrödinger’s Cat – 1974
“The Author of the Acacia Seeds” and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics – 1974 • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics)
“May’s Lion” – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
May’s Lion – 1983 • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rilke’s “Eighth Duino Elegy” and “She Unnames Them” – 1987 • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Eighth Elegy – 1987 • poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. of Die achte Elegie 1922)
She Unnames Them – 1985
Ursula’s Page
#scifi #ursulakleguin
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters — Ursula K. Le Guin
Standalones
April in Paris – 1962
The Masters – 1963
Darkness Box – 1963
Nine Lives – 1969
A Trip to the Head – 1970
Things – 1970
The Good Trip – 1970
Direction of the Road – 1973
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas – 1973
The Field of Vision – 1973
The Stars Below – 1974
Hainish
Semley’s Necklace – 1964
Winter’s King – 1969
Vaster than Empires and More Slow – 1971
The Day Before the Revolution – 1974
Earthsea
The Word of Unbinding – 1964
The Rule of Names – 1964
Ursula’s Page
#scifi #ursulakleguin
The Unreal and the Real — Ursula K. Le Guin
Nine Lives – 1969
Direction of the Road – 1973
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas – 1973
The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics – 1974
Mazes – 1975
The Water Is Wide – 1976
Gwilan’s Harp – 1977
The White Donkey – 1980
The Wife’s Story – 1982
Small Change – 1982
Sur – 1982
The Ascent of the North Face – 1983
May’s Lion – 1983
She Unnames Them – 1985
Horse Camp – 1986
Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight – 1987
Half Past Four – 1987
Hand, Cup, Shell – 1989
Texts • non-genre – 1990
Sleepwalkers – 1991
The First Contact with the Gorgonids – 1992
The Poacher – 1993
Ether, OR – 1995
The Lost Children – 1996
The Silence of the Asonu – 1998
The Fliers of Gy – 2000
The Wild Girls – 2002
Jar of Water – 2016
Hainish
Semley’s Necklace – 1964
The Shobies’ Story – 1990
The Matter of Seggri – 1994
Solitude – 1994
Yeowe and Werel
Betrayals – 1994
Earthsea
The Rule of Names – 1964
Orsinia
Imaginary Countries – 1973
Brothers and Sisters – 1976
A Week in the Country – 1976
The Diary of the Rose – 1976
Unlocking the Air – 1990
Ursula’s Page
#fantasy #scifi #ursulakleguin
Zima Blue and Other Stories — Alastair Reynolds
I’ve rearranged the stories into date order, rather than the order they are in the collection: coz that’s juse how i roll, darlings. Obviously, you can read them in any order you chose as well.
Standalones
Enola – 1991
Digital to Analogue – 1992
Spirey and the Queen – 1996
Angels of Ashes – 1999
Merlin Series
Hideaway – 2000
Minla’s Flowers – 2007
Merlin’s Gun – 2000
Standalones
The Real Story – 2002
Everlasting – 2004
Beyond the Aquila Rift – 2005
Zima Blue – 2005
Understanding Space and Time – 2005
Signal to Noise – 2006
Cardiff Afterlife – 2009
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
Deep Navigation — Alastair Reynolds
I’ve rearranged the stories into date order, rather than the order they are in the collection: coz that’s juse how i roll, darlings. Obviously, you can read them in any order you chose as well.
Revelation Space Universe
Monkey Suit – 2009
Standalones
Nunivak Snowflakes – 1990
Byrd Land Six – 1995
Stroboscopic – 1998
On the Oodnadatta – 1998
Viper – 1999
Fresco – 2001
Feeling Rejected – 2005
Tiger, Burning – 2006
The Fixation – 2007
The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter – 2007
Fury – 2008
The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice – 2008
Soirée – 2008
The Receivers – 2009
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
The Father of Lies — K. J. Parker
The Things We Do for Love
Downfall of the Gods
The Last Witness
The Devil You Know
I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There
Heaven Thunders the Truth
Message in a Bottle
Rules
Safe House
The Dragonslayer of Merebarton
Told by an Idiot
No Peace for the Wicked
K. J.’s Page Tom’s Page
#kjparker
Academic Exercises — K. J. Parker
A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong
A Rich, Full Week
Amor Vincit Omnia
On Sieges
Let Maps to Others
A Room with a View
Cutting Edge Technology
Illuminated
Purple and Black
Rich Men’s Skins; A Social History Of Armour
The Sun And I
One Little Room an Everywhere
Blue and Gold
K. J.’s Page Tom’s Page
#kjparker
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight — Aliette de Bodard
Standalones
The Jaguar House, in Shadow
The Shipmaker
Scattered Along the River of Heaven
Immersion
The Waiting Stars
Memorials
The Breath of War
The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile
Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight
A Salvaging of Ghosts
Pearl
Other Series
The Dust Queen
Children of Thorns, Children of Water
Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness
Aliette’s Page
#scifi #aliettedebodard
Complete Works of H. G. Wells — H. G. Wells
Novels
The Time Machine
The Wonderful Visit
The Island Of Doctor Moreau – 1896
The Wheels of Chance
The Invisible Man – 1897
The War of the Worlds – 1898
When the Sleeper Wakes
Love and Mr. Lewisham
The First Men In The Moon – 1901
The Sea Lady
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth – 1904
Kipps
A Modern Utopia
In the Days of the Comet
The War in the Air
Tono-Bungay
Ann Veronica
The History of Mr. Polly
The Sleeper Awakes
The New Machiavelli
Marriage
The Passionate Friends
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
The World Set Free
Bealby: A Holiday
Boon
The Research Magnificent
Mr. Britling Sees it Through
The Soul of a Bishop
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education
The Undying Fire
The Secret Places of the Heart
Men Like Gods
The Dream
Christina Alberta’s Father
The World of William Clissold
Meanwhile
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
The Autrocracy of Mr. Parham
The Bulpington of Blup
The Shape Of Things To Come – 1933
The Croquet Player
Brynhild
Star Begotten
The Camford Visitation
Apropos of Dolores
The Brothers
The Holy Terror
Babes in the Darkling Wood
All Aboard for Ararat
You Can’t Be Too Careful
The Short Story Collections
The Early Short Stories
Select Conversations with an Uncle
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
The Plattner Story and Others
Tale of Space and Time
Twelve Stories and a Dream
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
Uncollected Short Stories
The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order
Selected Non-Fiction
Text-Book of Biology
Certain Personal Matters
Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought
The Discovery of the Future
Preface to “Underground man by Gabriel Tarde”
Mankind in the Making
The Future in America
This Misery of Boots
New Worlds for Old
First and Last Things
Floor Games
Little Wars
The War That Will End War
An Englishman Looks at the World
What is Coming
The Elements of Reconstruction
Introduction to “Nocturne by Frank Swinnerton”
Introduction to “The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger”
God the Invisible King
War and the Future
In the Fourth Year
The Idea of a League of Nations
The Outline of History
Russia in the Shadows
The Salvaging of Civilizatin
A Short History of the World
Washington and the Hope of Peace
The Story of a Great Schoolmaster
A Year of Prophesying
Mr Belloc Objects to “The Outline of History”
The open Conspiracy
World Brain
The Fate of Homo Sapiens
The New World Order
The Common Sense of War and Peace
Crux Ansata
Marxism vs. Liberalism
The Criticism
H. G. Wells by J. D. Beresford
The Autobiography
Experiment in Autobiography
H. G. Wells’s Page
#delphicompleteworks #scifi #steampunk #hgwells
A Winter Book — Tove Jansson
Tales from the Folly — Ben Aaronovitch
Nightingale: London 1966
Dedicated Follower of Fashion
The Home Crowd Advantage
Tobias Winter
The Domestic
The Cockpit
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Granny
Favourite Uncle
King of Rats
Reynolds
A Rare Book of Cunning Device
Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby
Vanessa Sommers Other Christmas List
Ben’s Page
#fantasy #benaaronovitch
Machine Learning — Hugh Howey
The Walk up Nameless Ridge
Second Suicide
Nothing Goes to Waste
Deep Blood Kettle
Machine Learning
Executable
The Box
Glitch
In the Air
In the Mountain
In the Woods
Hell from the East
The Black Beast
The Good God
The Automated Ones
Mouth Breathers
While (u > i) i- -;
The Plagiarist
Select Character
Promises of London
Peace in Amber
Hugh’s Page
#scifi #hughhowey
The Best Tales of Hoffmann — E. T. A. Hoffmann
A Shrewdness of Swindlers — DeAnna Knippling
DeAnna sent me an ARC to have a read and comment on, with the caveat that she still had some polishing to do. So yes, there were a few things that still needed some work with the copy i received, but all in all, it was a very enjoyable read. And then, having sent my notes to Deanna, she then sent me an updated version back with my little moans all sorted out.
What i liked most-est about this book is that instead of the the usual bunch of short stories thrown randomly into a collection, DeAnna has taken time to tie all these stories together with a frame story. Each short is given its own character to tell it in a magical, story contest in a downstairs backroom of a speakeasy: which just happens to be organised by one of the Fae who we’re told really like to collect human stories.
But one of the story tellers is murdered just before the contest with the suspect most probably being one of the tellers at the table, which makes things more interesting.
Best of all, it’s a good collection of characters and a good collection of stories for you to enjoy, with a prize at the end for the best story.
DeAnna’s Page
#vampires #scifi #fantasy #deannaknippling
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno — Yasutaka Tsutsui
The Dabba Dabba Tree
Rumours About Me
Don’t Laugh
Farmer Airlines
Bear’s Wood Main Line
The Very Edge of Happiness
Commuter Army
Hello, Hello, Hello!
The World is Tilting
Bravo Herr Mozart!
The Last Smoker
Bad for the Heart
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno
Yasutaka’s Page
#japan #yasutakatsutsui
Bullseye! — Yasutaka Tsutsui
Bullseye
Call for the Devil!
The Onlooker
It’s My Baby
Zarathustra on Mars
Having a Laugh
The Good Old Days
Running Man
Sleepy Summer Afternoon
Cross Section
Narcissism
Sadism
The Wind
A Vanishing Dimension
Oh! King Lear
Meta Noir
The Agency Maid
The Night they Played Hide and Seek
The Countdown Clock
Animated Realism
Yasutaka’s Page
#japan #yasutakatsutsui
Future Tides — Christopher Ruz
They Trade In Eyes
No Exit
Whispers
The Hard Sell
The Aliens Came Alphabetically
Never Old Enough To Know
The Ant Tower
Occupied
Back To Civilisation
The King
Front Page Caption
Eight Ways From Tomorrow
An Unknown Hunger
The Last Broadcast
Click here for review.
What You Bring Back
Black Rain
Long Way Home
Hercule And The Doctor They Trade In Eyes
Christopher’s Page
#christopherruz
Beyond the Aquila Rift — Alastair Reynolds
Revelation Space
Great Wall of Mars – 2000
Diamond Dogs – 2001
Weather – 2006
The Last Log of the Lachrimosa – 2014
Merlin Series
Minla’s Flowers – 2007
Standalones
Beyond the Aquila Rift – 2005
Zima Blue – 2005
Thousandth Night – 2005
The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter – 2007
Fury – 2008
The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice – 2008
Troika – 2010
Sleepover – 2010
The Old Man and the Martian Sea – 2011
Vainglory – 2012
Trauma Pod – 2012
The Water Thief – 2012
In Babelsberg – 2014
Alastair’s Page
#scifi #alastairreynolds
Galactic North — Alastair Reynolds
Limbo — Aldous Huxley
Aldous’ first collection of short fiction, consisting of six short stories and a play.
All in all it’s quite a good read and one can see the young Aldous developing his writing. Admittedly, he is incredibly pompous at times, but one does get the feeling in “Bookshop” that he realises this and that he understands that he needs to tone it down a lot if he wants to get his ideas and thoughts across to the masses.
Definitely a must read for all Aldous fans.
Farcical History of Richard Greenow
A rather interesting look at Dissociative Identity Disorder before and into WWI, where one personality is a conscientious objector while the other is firmly on the side of destroying the Hun with extreme predjudice. Add to this that Richard’s other personality is female and when she takes over he has complete blackouts and things get a little out of control for him.
Yes folks, just because someone with DID is male does not mean that their other personalities are going to be male also. It doesn’t work like that. One’s other personalties are whoever they are and sometimes they will express with different genders to the host.
Superbly written in Aldous’ inimitable style.
Happily Ever After
Set in the years of WWI, Aldous introduces us to two young men, both at war, with completely contrasting views on life. I think this is Aldous’ way of reminding himself — and all of us — to not get lost in dogmatic ideologies and, instead, to grasp and enjoy the joys of life while you’re young because you never know if today will be your last.
Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers
One often gets the impression with Aldous that he liked to show off his classical education: “Oooh, hark at me, i know all these ancient Greek people and things.”
All the pompous whimsy aside, the only thing really being said here is Aldous didn’t much think that meditation was good for a person: “Let’s not count breaths, eh.”
Happy Families
A play. Very much a thing of its time when it comes to race, displaying Aldous’ Victorian heritage to the full.
Cynthia
A little romance short with Aldous stirring in another good load of the “Oooh, hark at me, i know all these ancient Greek people and things.” that we had in “Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers”.
The Bookshop
A short about an impulse purchase all dressed up in a rather lovely piece of descriptive writing. I felt that the undertones of this was Aldous bemoaning the great unwashed and uncultured, while, at the end, he sees that he can’t escape their influence when surrounded on all sides by them: we’re all in this shit life together. Our protagonist finally throws his impulse purchase into some bushes.
I find this story very much to have the seed of what Aldous later grew into his life’s work. The symbolism of the bookshop with its classical music, fashions, art and books; representing education, privilege and wealth; surrounded on all sides by the working classes, poverty and need. How can one enjoy such fruits when he’s reminded and intruded upon, at every moment, that so many don’t have these things.
The Death of Lully
Lully is an early christian martyr that is rescued on a passing ship. A well written short but i’m not sure what the message really is. As a devout non-christian, this kind of thing just turns my brain off.
Aldous’ Page
#aldoushuxley
Sidequests — Joseph R. Lallo
A delightful collection of short stories that Joseph was nice enough to give away to all those of us who receive his newsletter: so sign up now!!!
Squee’s Day Out (Big Sigma)
Building the Perfect Pet (Big Sigma)
Meeting of the Mas (Big Sigma)
The New Inspector (Free-Wrench)
Lil and Coop (Free-Wrench)
The Beast of the Cave (Book of Deacon)
Joseph’s Page
#fantasy #scifi #steampunk #josephrlallo
Electric Jungle — James K. Pratt
A delightful little collection of short stories that i got for free in one of those BookFunnel promotions.
At the time of writing this — March 2020 — James was still giving this away in BookFunnel promotions, so if you want a copy then maybe email James and ask nicely. It’s definitely worth sending an email, just tell him you were reading this and i told you to. LOL
James’ Page
#scifi #jameskpratt
Obsidian Worlds — Jason Werbeloff
I only recently discovered Jason’s writing and i have to say that i’m really enjoying it.
Obsidian Worlds is a whole book full of short stories about random sci-fi things which i chose to read as inbetweenies between chapters of How Emotions Are Made. It worked out really well giving nice little breaks to allow Lisa’s cutting edge science to percolate through my synapses, although, unfortunately, there aren’t enough shorts in this collection to cover all the chapters in Lisa’s book. Ho hum, i’ll just have to find some other shorts to read.
So yeah, Jason has a Phd in philosophy and i think that kinda adds a certain flavour to Jason’s sci-fi, and i do like philosophers who chose to write stories instead of academic papers — much more fun for all of us.
Other philosophers who write stories that i recommend would be Aldous Huxley and Pascal Mercier.