bvkspine

f | canada | literature. art. photography. | currently reading Madame Bovary

[bvkspine]

since the response was so very fast and generous with the last one- anybody has any good short stories collections to recommend? bit weird is fine with me, diverse would be fantastic

[ninja-muse]

Ooh, I’m less good with short stories, but Ted Chiang has a couple good SF ones from what I hear, Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad was absolutely delightful, and Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties has gotten some good acclaim. I know Haruki Murakami has short story collections too, but I don’t know how their quality compares to his novels.

Oh, and Roxane Gay has short stories as well, I think?

[readingaway]

Oh, I’ve been reading a lot of short story collections lately and have in the past as well.

Some that stick out: Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva, Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung, Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez, Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History edited by Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older (small print run, pretty hard to find), The Unreal and the Real: Outer Space and Inner Lands by Ursula K Le Guin, The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote, Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, and the classic The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (arguably not a short story collection but in that realm with its vignette structure.) There’s many others I have read but didn’t like at all so can’t recommend, many individual short stories, and quite a few collections I plan to read but haven’t yet so can’t recommend.

[bvkspine]

what a champion 🌻

[bvkspine]

since the response was so very fast and generous with the last one- anybody has any good short stories collections to recommend? bit weird is fine with me, diverse would be fantastic

[ninja-muse]

Ooh, I’m less good with short stories, but Ted Chiang has a couple good SF ones from what I hear, Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad was absolutely delightful, and Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties has gotten some good acclaim. I know Haruki Murakami has short story collections too, but I don’t know how their quality compares to his novels.

Oh, and Roxane Gay has short stories as well, I think?

[franticvampirereads]

These aren’t super diverse (if at all) but I liked these collections when I read them. Hope they help!

Spooky Smutty Stories 1 & 2 by Claire Cray are some of my favorites! They are mm horror romance anthologies.

If you want really weird try the Carniepunk anthology. I think Rachel Caine was the editor on that one but I’m not 100% sure. All the stories are really creepy and set around carnivals.

Another weird one is Home Improvement: Undead Edition, with Charlaine Harris as the editor. Exactly what it says on the tin. It’a a fun read.

[bvkspine]

since the response was so very fast and generous with the last one- anybody has any good short stories collections to recommend? bit weird is fine with me, diverse would be fantastic

[ninja-muse]

Ooh, I’m less good with short stories, but Ted Chiang has a couple good SF ones from what I hear, Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad was absolutely delightful, and Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties has gotten some good acclaim. I know Haruki Murakami has short story collections too, but I don’t know how their quality compares to his novels.

Oh, and Roxane Gay has short stories as well, I think?

[booksandghosts]

I have so many short story recommendations let me know if you have a specific type you are interested in. like horror collections or fantasy collections. Themed collections.

Here are some I recommend

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link - any of her collections are great, she’s very good at the short story

Things a map won’t show you edited by Susan La Marca & Pam McIntyre - great diverse collection of short stories for year 7 and 8 students so 12 to 14 year olds. Australia focused with indigenous voices and Asia-Pacific neighbours thrown in as well. Obviously younger aimed but a solid collection

After Australia edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad - another Australian focused one, sue me, we don’t get many shout outs.  This one is 12 diverse writers imagine an alternative Australia. 

Scars and other distinguishing marks by Richard Christian Matheson - this is the son of the guy who wrote I am Legend and so many others.  He has a strong short story game, not sure he ever wrote a longer novel but this collection is very good though horror so avoid if not keen on that.

Invisible Planets edited and translated by Ken Liu - 13 Chinese science fiction stores.  I have been really interested in other countries fiction for ages and this was a great collection from China.

Fixi Novo has some great Malaysian short story collections in horror and fantasy. 

Also last night I ordered Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Paula Guran which will hopefully be another good book.

Honestly this list could be very long and I have definitely forgotten some I have recently been raving about I am sure.

[bvkspine]

first of all, a hundred thanks to you, this list is wonderful and I'd never heard of any of these books.

I'm not really looking for anything in particular, sci fi and fantasy or non-fiction or magical realism or essay-type are mostly my thing, but if you ever come up with anything else do feel free to let me know !!

[bvkspine]

since the response was so very fast and generous with the last one- anybody has any good short stories collections to recommend? bit weird is fine with me, diverse would be fantastic

[ninja-muse]

Ooh, I’m less good with short stories, but Ted Chiang has a couple good SF ones from what I hear, Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad was absolutely delightful, and Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties has gotten some good acclaim. I know Haruki Murakami has short story collections too, but I don’t know how their quality compares to his novels.

Oh, and Roxane Gay has short stories as well, I think?

[bvkspine]

''less good'' still looks pretty great to me

[bvkspine]

since the response was so very fast and generous with the last one- anybody has any good short stories collections to recommend? bit weird is fine with me, diverse would be fantastic

[bvkspine]

itching to read asian literature and black literature, non-YA, non-romance. ressources, links and recommendations welcomed 🍀

[bvkspine]

per chance, anything that came before 2019? or anything that would be considered "modern classics"

[bvkspine]

itching to read asian literature and black literature, non-YA, non-romance. ressources, links and recommendations welcomed 🍀

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[itsjustsodope]

[odysscy]

ig: orionvanessa

[logwire]

L'OEIL DE SHINJUKU

[pilarinthecity]

It is what it is.

[keplercryptids]

for no particular reason and certainly not because of a certain shitbag author publishing yet another shitty book, here’s a list of science fiction/fantasy books by marginalized authors.

with special focus on trans, indigenous, jewish, asian and/or disabled authors because these are groups she-who-must-not-be-named has been particularly shitty about!

note: i got the idea to do this from @queerpontmercy​​​ - hope you don’t mind! i’ve read most of these, and i’ve tried to organize them by subgenre. now go read!

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi. Young adult SFF written by a black nonbinary author, with a black trans girl main character.

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger. Young adult speculative fiction written by a Lipan Apache author. Main character is an asexual Lipan Apache teenager.

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan. First book in a YA fantasy series in an Asian-inspired setting by a mixed-race author of Malaysian descent, featuring a F/F romance.

Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore. A young adult fantasy about two sisters in a cursed family, written by a Mexican-American nonbinary author.

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones. A contemporary, coming-of-age fantasy about a boy and his werewolf family, written by a Blackfeet Native American author.

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo. First in a high fantasy novella series by an Asian-American author, featuring a queer cast including a nonbinary main character.

The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorite Series) by JY (Neon) Yang. A fantasy novella series with nonbinary and lgbtq+ main characters, written by a nonbinary Singaporean author.

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey. Pulp Western science/ dystopian fiction novella with an all-queer cast, written by a nonbinary author.

The Golem & the Jinni by Helene Wecker. Historical fantasy combining elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology by a Jewish author.

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. Fantasy by a Jewish author with Jewish main characters.

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. Fantasy about witches and scientists trying to save the world by a trans author.

Jade City by Fonda Lee. First in a fantasy series in an Asia-inspired setting written by an Asian-Canadian author.

Bone Universe trilogy by Fran Wilde. Fantasy trilogy featuring cast of disabled characters written by a disabled author.

Parable of the Sower (Earthseed series) by Octavia Butler. Science fiction / dystopian series written by a black disabled author.

[flowerytale]

Isabel Allende ― The House of the Spirits

[undr]

Otho Lloyd. Quarter of La Ribera, Barcelona. 1946

[lotusohm]

“I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.”

- Elena Ferrante

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

The Waves, Virginia Woolf

[ID: Month by month things are losing their hardness ; even my body now lets the light through; my spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.]