The Planet

I'm enjoying how consistently if one of us doesn't like a story, we ALL don't like it, lol.

The thing that really got me about the frame story question is that we're supposed to be asking her why she didn't warn anyone and the whole THING is about her basically being punished for warning them?? How could I know who she was and where and not know that.

Bee wrote: ↑

Sun 05 Dec, 2021, 5:29 pm

I'm not really into the "are machines people?" genre so I lost interest very quickly and as a result, wasn't particularly impressed with it, but after reading Cal's comments last night I decided to give it another try... and it turns out the story was actually... good?? :O

Aw yiss. I'm glad you gave it another shot, it's absolutely my favorite from this set. The more I think about it, the more stuff I find to like.

I've actually been thinking about it some more since my comparison to kamikaze attacks specifically as a World War 2 metaphor and comparing it to that other story on Mars we were all disappointed by. Both stories are pretty clear WW metaphors about sacrifice and memorials and being on the losing side, but are otherwise completely different.

This week's magazine is Lightspeed Magazine, for the most part.

Once again there were no poems this week, however I noticed on the site that they linked to two other magazines, Fantasy Magazine and Nightmare Magazine, which seem to be sister magazines by the same publisher and sharing some editorial staff, and those did have poems in their november issue, so I decided to include a poem from each of them.

There's six stories total, because it includes two pieces of flash fiction and two short poems, so it's still under 11.000 words.

Here are the links:

Short Stories (9.016 words total):

1. I Was a Teenage Space Jockey by Stephen Graham Jones
Wordcount: 4612
Text version: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fict ... ce-jockey/
Audio version: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/po ... _Jones.mp3

2. Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias by Elly Bangs
Wordcount: 4404
Text Version: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fict ... n-utopias/

Flash Fiction (1.350 words total):

1. Stowaways by Andrew Dana Hudson
Wordcount: 864
Text version: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/stowaways-2/

2. To Reach the Gate, She Must Leave Everything Behind by Izzy Wasserstein
Wordcount: 486
Text version: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fict ... ng-behind/

Poetry (339 words total):

1. Every Night and All by Sonya Taaffe
Wordcount: 58
Text version: http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetr ... t-and-all/

2. After the End by Jessica Cho
Wordcount: 281
Text version: https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/poe ... r-the-end/

the problem with reading things early is that I have Opinions and then forget about them

Bee wrote: ↑

Mon 06 Dec, 2021, 10:08 pm

the problem with reading things early is that I have Opinions and then forget about them

*whispers* write them down

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Mon 06 Dec, 2021, 10:20 pm

Bee wrote: ↑

Mon 06 Dec, 2021, 10:08 pm

the problem with reading things early is that I have Opinions and then forget about them

*whispers* write them down

HOW DARE YOU

Bee wrote: ↑

Mon 06 Dec, 2021, 10:22 pm

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Mon 06 Dec, 2021, 10:20 pm

Bee wrote: ↑

Mon 06 Dec, 2021, 10:08 pm

the problem with reading things early is that I have Opinions and then forget about them

*whispers* write them down

HOW DARE YOU

Bumping again as a reminder

We have lots of short pieces this week, I wouldn't recommend reading through them all in one sitting!

Bee wrote: ↑

Fri 10 Dec, 2021, 2:48 pm

Bumping again as a reminder

We have lots of short pieces this week, I wouldn't recommend reading through them all in one sitting!

*whistles innocently*

But that's my method!

thiskurt wrote: ↑

Fri 10 Dec, 2021, 3:12 pm

Bee wrote: ↑

Fri 10 Dec, 2021, 2:48 pm

Bumping again as a reminder

We have lots of short pieces this week, I wouldn't recommend reading through them all in one sitting!

*whistles innocently*

But that's my method!

Usually I can read at least half in one sitting, but this week's pieces are all very different and I've been reading and re-reading some of them

thiskurt wrote: ↑

Fri 10 Dec, 2021, 3:12 pm

Bee wrote: ↑

Fri 10 Dec, 2021, 2:48 pm

Bumping again as a reminder

We have lots of short pieces this week, I wouldn't recommend reading through them all in one sitting!

*whistles innocently*

But that's my method!

Me too lol but there were so many I split them up into two sets

I gotta do the second one today

Actually tbh last week I wound up doing two sets too