Peak Short
As the blazing eye of summer fixates on the Northern Hemisphere, John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson call upon a special guest FROM THE FUTURE! From the wintry land of Australia, Locus Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan rides over from the Coode Street podcast to discuss SFF anthology creation, “peak short story,” and the publishing environment for short fiction past, present, and future!
Also: Can you really can claim to have “nothing to read” given the several dozen sources of periodical fiction (and hundreds of anthologies) that we have access to these days? Unlike the Dawn of Time when the Hoarsemen were young and had to walk twelve miles, uphill, both ways, in the snow, to buy magazine fiction…
Finally, we once again attempt to separate money from your wallet with all of the titles that we’ve read since the last show. Comics! Books! Roleplaying games! Heavens, we’re even spreading it out to our families.
Listen to this episode (1 hour, 25 minutes)
Show Notes
Reach for Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 8, edited by Jonathan Strahan
The Starry Rift, edited by Jonathan Strahan
Greg Egan (Modern Masters of Science Fiction), by Karen Burnham
Lightspeed Magazine: Women Destroy Science Fiction, edited by Christie Yant
Space Opera, edited by Rich Horton
The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to Laird Barron, edited by Ross E. Lockhart and Justin Steel
The Future is Japanese, edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington
Twelve Tomorrows, edited by David Rotman
The Mirror Empire: Worldbreaker Saga 1, by Kameron Hurley
Additional Show Notes:
Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan
Life on Mars, edited by Jonathan Strahan
John Stevens’ Hip Replacement Recovery Fundraiser
The Omni Books of Science Ficiton
Empire Volume 2, by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson
Ripper!, edited by Gardner Dozois
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, edited by Robert Silverberg
Ms. Marvel, by G. Wikllow Wilson
The Wicked + The Divine, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
Wonderbook, by Jeff VanderMeer
City on the Edge of Forever, by Harlan Ellison and this
