In the year of our Lord 2017 (of unfond memory), I read these two stories about sweet little bots doing their best, and it launched me into a new state of being in which I read short fiction so much that I have had to commission a logo about it. The main one, admittedly, was “Fandom for Robots,” but a very close second was Suzanne Palmer’s very sweet “The Secret Life of Bots.” So it was with great pleasure that I learned she has her debut novel out this year: Finder! Fergus Ferguson is a finder, and he’s been tasked…
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I am not trying to antagonize Robert Silverberg or anything, but there are no men in my best-of-October-and-November column. Which is a good reminder of why I am getting so heavily back into speculative fiction after some time spent canoodling with literary fiction: Though the black spec fic and publishing diversity numbers make it very clear that we have a long way to go yet, it is much much easier to find SFF by people who aren’t white or male than when I was a kid trying to discover if SFF wanted me there. And that’s what I’m grateful for,…
Leave a CommentGuess what, I have been living a foolish half-life all this time by not regularly reading short SFF. My resolution for 2018 was to find three stories over the course of the year that I really loved and wanted to advocate for. It is now February, and I’ve hit my goal. Already! Just in February! In part this happened because I am nominating for Hugos, so I’ve been reading a bunch of stories off of best-of lists. BUT STILL. One of my stories is very shameful for me that I didn’t read it sooner, because everything that I heard about…
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