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October 2, 2014
“Salvage” by Carrie Vaughn
Lightspeed, June 2014 (Women Destroy Science Fiction Issue) http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fic... Author Website: carrievaughn.com Short Women in Space, Review #2 No one knows what went wrong with Radigund, a small survey ship–dead and adrift between stars, but curiosity and unspoken fears lead a small away crew to discover the truths aboard. Interpersonal relations weigh heavily in […]
October 1, 2014
“Space Travel Loses its Allure When You’ve Lost Your Moon Cup” by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Crossed Genres, July 2014 (Issue 19) http://crossedgenres.com/magazine/019... Author Website: http://www.intrigue.co.uk/ Short Women in Space, Review #1 So, yeah, periods in space. Might as well go there on this first review, right? Let’s take a quick peek at the opening: Zero G and three light years from the nearest drugstore is a shitty time to […]
September 28, 2014
Short Women in Space!!!
(Queue dramatic echo) October is Short Women in Space month here at Diary of a Short Woman, and I will be reviewing 31 short stories written by women involving space–one every day for the entirety of the month. I hope to highlight authors of the female persuasion writing awesome SF, as well as, perhaps touching […]
March 29, 2014
Delightfully Twisted Tales: The Worst of Both Worlds
I’ve got a new ebook out. Some stories are dark, some are light-hearted, but they’re definitely all TWISTED! And delightfully so! Maintenance workers tend to a living ship with mental issues, a tentacled alien competes in her first triathlon on Earth, a man goes to the ends of the Earth and beyond for the perfect [...]
November 25, 2013
Deck the Halls with Bowels of Folly
My story “Wrath of the Porcelain Gods” will be featured in Interzone’s 2013 Advent Calendar on December 9th…because apparently nothing brings out the holiday spirit like a deity crawling up your bowels. Still time to get your entries in!
November 16, 2013
Breva
My (very long) short story “Breva” is up at Daily Science Fiction. (100 words shy of being a novelette…shoulda planned that out a little better!) http://dailysciencefiction.com/scienc...
November 1, 2013
It Starts!
Happy Nanowrimo, Everybody! Got up an hour early, wrote about 800 words this morning, and plan to get some more done later tonight! Here’s a quick taste of my novel yet to be named: Chapter One “Give me the rock,” I command, my arm outstretched, palm to the bright orange sky. The great metallic ape [...]
October 21, 2013
NaNoWriMo!!!
Oh dear. I did not expect this, but a new novel idea thrust itself upon me in my dreams last night. Conveniently in time for NaNoWriMo, so I think this must be done. Think Tarzan meets Planet of the Apes meets iRobot. Have a short outline already, and will expand it so that all I [...]
September 3, 2013
WorldCon!!!
This past Saturday I attended my first WorldCon! I feel like such a big girl now, though to be honest, after hiking all over the humongous San Antonio Convention Center, I kind of prefer the quaintness of ArmadilloCon. However, I loved my little pocket program guide, so well organized! I only got to attend two [...]
August 13, 2013
Rayguns Over Texas preview: Nicky Drayden
My excerpt is up! I’m really excited that this story found such a great home. http://www.revolutionsf.com/revblogs/...
