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October 12, 2014
The Mythology of Salt by Octavia Cade
Strange Horizons http://www.strangehorizons.com/2013/2... Author Website: http://ojcade.com This is a story of three women, tied together by motherhood, grief, infidelity and salt. Their lives are so interconnected, and yet they are all strangers to one another. Makareta has lost her husband and the father of her three daughters. She has been left to continue the family business […]
October 11, 2014
Communion by Mary Anne Mohanraj
Clarkesworld http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mohan... Author Website: www.mamohanraj.com Chaurin has left the tunnel-cities of his homeworld to find the remains of his brother, killed at a gaudy human city on the planet Kriti. He doesn’t understand what drove his brother to want to live among the humans, so light and slight, and easy to dispose of. While […]
October 10, 2014
Special Delivery by Maddie Engelfried
Bikes in Space http://takingthelane.com/product/bike... (Disclaimer, I have a story that also appears in this issue. Any typos in the story sample are mine.) In this little flash piece, we get a slice of life story of a girl with a bike route on the moon. “Newspaper delivery on the moon?” I’m sure you’re asking […]
October 9, 2014
Dancing by M. E. Garber
Daily Science Fiction http://dailysciencefiction.com/scienc... Minutes after an explosion kills Arun, beloved father and husband and pilot to their antique spaceship, a mother and daughter are forced to put aside their grief to land the ship and find a way to save both of their lives. The ship’s belly bumped the ground, rose up, and dove […]
October 8, 2014
“The Rocketeer” by Rebecca Hodgkins
Daily Science Fiction http://dailysciencefiction.com/scienc... Rocketeering: It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it. That’s what I came away with after reading The Rocketeer, in which a jaded, veteran astronaut is irritated by the over-enthused nature of her barfellows in a space station orbiting Mars. She’s surrounded by young “Major Toms” who have […]
October 7, 2014
Found by Alex Dally MacFarlane
Clarkesworld, August 2013 http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/macfa... Author Website: www.alexdallymacfarlane.com Short Women in Space, Review # 7 In Found, a merchant peddling spices among a collection of asteroid colonies is making one last run before life there changes forever. Colony life is tough, as evidenced by what the merchant encountered at the last asteroid: I had […]
October 6, 2014
“Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind)” by Holly Black
Lightspeed, September 2014 http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fic... Author Website: http://blackholly.com/ Short Women in Space, Review #6 In this novelette, a young girl stows away on her uncle’s cargo ship, fleeing a homesteader lifestyle on the boring planet her parents immigrated to. Life aboard the ship presents its own challenges when she realizes that her parents’ warnings about […]
October 5, 2014
“The Serial Killer’s Astronaut Daughter” by Damien Angelica Walters
Strange Horizons, Jan 2014 http://www.strangehorizons.com/2014/2... Author Website: http://www.damienangelicawalters.com/ Short Women in Space, Review #5 This story is about a Technical Mission Specialist, a space mechanic, if you will, who is damned good at her job. She’s spent more time aboard the space station than she has back on Earth, but when it comes to […]
October 4, 2014
“The Things They Were Not Allowed to Carry” by Helena Leigh Bell
Daily Science Fiction, June 2014 http://dailysciencefiction.com/scienc... Author Website: http://www.nuetcreations.com/blog/ Short Women in Space, Review #4 This neat little piece teeters between realism and surrealism as a group of interstellar travelers make their way to a new planet over the course of 50 years. Space is limited aboard the ship, and there is no room […]
October 3, 2014
“Lysistrata of Mars” by Tory Hoke
Strange Horizons, February 2014 http://www.strangehorizons.com/2014/2... Author Website: http://www.toryhoke.com/ Short Women in Space, Review #3 Okay, Tory Hoke. Who are you and how did you get into my brain? Seriously, this piece was practically written for me. The aliens are amazing. The writing is charmingly snarky. The depth of the message is spot on. Okay, […]
