The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017 Guest Editor: Charles Yu Series Editor: John Joseph Adams Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 Overview: Charles Yu and I don't have the same taste but I did notice that we both like stories with firm narrative structure. There were also multiple stories with portal fantasy aspects. Also, common…
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman Greenwillow Books, 2018 YA Fantasy Short Stories (based on Asian myths and folklore) Average rating: 5 cups of tea out of 11 Overview: There are fifteen total stories written by different authors of Asian descent. Likes: There were four excellent stories that made…
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg Holt Paperback, 2018 Adult Horror Short Stories (inspired by Fairy Tales) 2 cups of that one tea mix that I can drink but am not fond of, out of 11 Overview: This is a collection of eleven stories. They are inspired by fairy tales and…
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 Editor, Karen Joy Fowler Series Editor, John Joseph Adams Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 Overview: This collection holds a total of twenty pieces (ten science fiction and ten fantasy) published in 2015. John Joseph Adams chose eighty pieces out of the thousands he read and then Karen Joy…
The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo Illustrated by Sara Kipin Imprint, 2017 YA Fantasy Short Stories 4 cups of tea out of 11 Summary: There are six stories total and the premise of this collection is that they would have been tales that characters in her Grisha series would have heard. Most are mixes…
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