The Monster Hunter Files – edited by Larry Correia and Bryan Thomas Schmidt – anthology review
I’ve been a fan of Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International series for several years now. I’m also a huge fan of anthologies, and…
Category: Short fiction reviews
Reviews of novellas, novelettes, short stories, and other short works.
Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien – short audiobook review
I’ve had Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien sitting on my shelf for years, but I kept forgetting it was there. I…
Those Idiots from Earth by Richard Wilson – collection review
Those Idiots from Earth was one of my random purchases. I love browsing used book stores and picking up random older titles, just…
Mirages and Speculations – edited by Lyn Worthen – anthology review
Anyone who knows me can tell you how much I love a good anthology. I have over 100 of them, and I’m always…
Extraordinary Zoology by Howard Tayler – audiobook review
Extraordinary Zoology is the first novella in the Tales from the Monsternomicon series set in the Iron Kingdoms tabletop miniatures game world from…
Tokyo Raider by Larry Correia – short audiobook review
Tokyo Raider is set a couple decades after Murder on the Orient Elite, another Grimnoir short audiobook story by Larry Correia. It follows…
Mr Bliss by J.R.R. Tolkien – short audiobook review
While I am a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, I’ll admit I hadn’t heard of Mr Bliss until recently. It’s a bit of…
Straight Outta Tombstone – edited by David Boop – anthology review
I’m not one to read Westerns, weird or otherwise, though I do have a few Western films that I enjoy. However, since I…
Smith of Wootton Major by J.R.R. Tolkien – short audiobook review
Smith of Wootton Major is a delightful light fantasy tale. A master cook resides in the village of Wootton Major—a town slightly larger…
Murder on the Orient Elite by Larry Correia – short audiobook review
Murder on the Orient Elite is another of the short audiobook stories set in Larry Correia’s Grimnoir Chronicles universe. This one happens after…
Little Green Men – Attack! – edited by Robin Wayne Bailey and Bryan Thomas Schmidt – anthology review
Little Green Men – Attack! is a campy and entertaining collection of tales by a range of talented writers. Robin Wayne Bailey is…
Three Celtic Tales by Moyra Caldecott – anthology review
Three Celtic Tales retold by Moyra Caldecott fancifully retells a trio of classical folk stories with a unique approach. Unlike most retellings of…
Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson – short fiction review
Snapshot is a fairly new (February), standalone novella by Brandon Sanderson. This is a case of Sanderson exploring a genre in which he…
Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett – short audiobook review
I have a few friends who keep suggesting I read stories by Leigh Brackett. They pointed out that she co-wrote the screenplay for…
Binti Home by Nnedi Okorafor – short fiction review
Binti Home picks up almost a year after the first novella by Nnedi Okorafor. Binti finds she has a lot of anger issues,…
Detroit Christmas by Larry Correia – short audiobook review
Detroit Christmas is a short story adapted as a full-cast audiobook from Baen. Set in the Grimnoir Chronicles, it follows a missing person…
The Tombs by M. Todd Gallowglas – short fiction review
The Tombs (or Dead Weight: The Tombs: A Tale of the Fairie War) is a novella by M. Todd Gallowglas. It’s set sometime…
EMT by David L. Burkhead – short work review
EMT follows Kristine, an EMT working on the Moon. She wants to save everyone, but recent budget cuts are threatening to cause her…
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor – short work review
Binti tells the story of the human girl, Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka of Namib, the first Himba to leave Earth and attend…
Bilbo’s Last Song by J.R.R. Tolkien – picture book review
Bilbo’s Last Song, by J.R.R. Tolkien, and first published nearly 20 years after his death, is full of beautiful artwork, delightful verse, and…
Arcanum Unbounded – The Cosmere Collection by Brandon Sanderson – collection review
Arcanum Unbounded – The Cosmere Collection is the much-anticipated (at least among many people I know) collection of short fiction set somewhere in…