The November issue of the American Quaker magazine Friends Journal is dedicated to speculative fiction and sci-fi. If you’re a fan of The Dazzle of Day, read on! Here’s the introductory essay by Quaker SFF writers Annalee Flower Horne and Hilary B. Bis…
“The music, at least, did not make me feel like an outsider.”
Three short speculative stories about love, yearning, and relationships beyond the human boundary. “Cold Wind” by Nicola Griffith: “From the park on Puget Sound I watched the sun go down on the shortest day of the year.” “Traveling Mercies” by Rachael …
“They left the sukkah standing when they fled.”
Two speculative stories in which girls and women disagree about how to cope with change, both published this year. “A Stone’s Throw from You” by Jenn Reese in Mermaids Monthly: “And then I told you I was leaving. That I’d been called to the sea.” “For …
Word-portals between worlds
Two scifi stories about literary professions in uncertain futures. “The Bookstore at the End of America” by Charlie Jane Anders, about a bookseller at the border between California and America: “Some of those screaming people were old enough to have gr…
“Your grandpa was a lot of things in the old days”
Two short speculative stories about growing up in a powerful family. “Horangi”, fantasy by Thomas Ha (reminds me a little of Ursula Vernon’s Grandma Harken stories): “I’m sorry to hear that,” my grandfather responded politely, and he gave a smile that …
“The quiet of the aftermath pressed down on us”
Two scifi stories about people finding tendrils of human connection while confronting modern grief. “A Glut of Nothing, and Yet… Something” by Monte Lin: “”The Singularity had come, but not the one people wanted…. the Glut: a grayed-out area that e…
“the flavors you teach them to desire”
“A perfect egg is a slash of light on a gray day.” “The War of Light and Shadow, in Five Dishes” by Siobhan Carroll is a bittersweet short fantasy story about cooking, grief, beauty in the midst of war, and teaching the next generation. (Previously.) “…
Ecologies, empathy, parenting, robots, and unanticipated consequences
Two scifi stories about tech inventions that don’t work out as their designers planned. Ken Liu’s “Quality Time” (from last year) looks into “unsolved problems in home automation” and a friendship at a startup. “Nobel Prize Speech Draft of Paul Winterh…
We can find them with this.
The most important device in the universe. The second-most important device in the universe. Both created by John Zabrucky, iconic prop maker, who closed up shop last year.
sign read: “PERMANENTLY CLOSED.” The lock on the door was busted.
Two short, bittersweet scifi stories about people changing their journeys. “Personal Trainer” by Meg Elison has a new way to exercise and a new kind of hammock to relax in. “Wait Calculation” by Derrick Boden has political intrigue aboard a generation …