#shiv ramdas

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This is narrative journalism at its peak and the best thing I have read in past 6 months.

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Comments point out that you absolutely shouldn't swim with dolphins. But feel free to share your Dad's terrible Dad jokes. 😊

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Shiv Ramdas on Twitter

“If you think youre having a bad day, spare a thought for the helmsman who somehow managed to stick his giantass ship sideways into the goddamn Suez Canal & blocked it into literal gridlock & is currently costing every seafaring nation of Earth like millions of dollars every hour”

God, this comedy commentary on the Suez Canal blockage is just good.  And if you haven’t read his previous rice truck saga Twitter thread, that’s also a thing of beauty. (Also recommend his sci-fi novel “Domechild”)

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Check out the Best Novelette and Best Short Story finalists for this years Hugo Awards. Many of them are available to read online! 

Best Novelette

“The Archronology of Love”, by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed, April 2019)

“Away With the Wolves”, by Sarah Gailey (Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Special Issue, September/October 2019)

“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2019)

Emergency Skin, by N.K. Jemisin (Forward Collection (Amazon))

“For He Can Creep”, by Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com, 10 July 2019)

“Omphalos”, by Ted Chiang (Exhalation (Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf; Picador))

Best Short Story

“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, by Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons, 9 September 2019)

“As the Last I May Know”, by S.L. Huang (Tor.com, 23 October 2019)

“Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, 24 July 2019)

“A Catalog of Storms”, by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2019)

“Do Not Look Back, My Lion”, by Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2019)

“Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, by Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, May 2019)

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It’s Nebula finalists time, and thanks to the wonders of the Internet many of the nominated works are available free of charge on this very screen. 

Novelette 

“For He Can Creep,” by Siobhan Carrol at Tor.com

“His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light,” by Mimi Mondal at Tor.com

“The Blur In the Corner of Your Eye,” by Sarah Pinsker at Uncanny 

The Archronology of Love, by Caroline M. Yoachim at Lightspeed 

Short Story 

“Give the Family My Love,” by A.T. Greenblatt at Clarkesworld 

The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power,” by Karen Osborne at Uncanny 

“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, by Shiv Ramdas at Strange Horizons 

“Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island,” by Nibedita Sen at Nightmare Magazine 

“A Catalog of Storms,” by Fran Wilde at Uncanny 

“How the Trick Is Done,” by A.C. Wise at Uncanny 

Toss a coin to your favorite magazine’s next fundraising drive and happy reading! 

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And Now His Lordship Is Laughing

He’s still dancing away happily even as the doll kicks its feet in perfect unison with his. Apa watches them both, her heart now sowing fiel

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