Short Story Wednesday+: links to the reviews for the week of 14 August 2024

Short Story Wednesday:

Patricia Abbott: "How to Talk to Your Mother" by Lorrie Moore, first published in her collection Self Help (1985). The story can be read here.

Jerry House: "Gynecologia" by Gilbert Cannan, first published in his collection Windmills: A Book of Fables (1915). The story can be read here.

George Kelley: Margolyam by Matthew Hughes (reviewed as a collection of linked stories, though Hughes considers it a novel), 2024.

Todd Mason: "She-Bear" by Janet Fox, an "Arcana" story, Fantastic Stories, January 1974, edited by Ted White. Can be read here.

Plus:

John Boston: Amazing Stories, September 1969, edited by Ted White

Rachel Cordasco and "Joachim Boaz": "Drugs'll Do You" by Kathinka Lannoy, translated by Joe F. Randolf, for publication in Terra SF edited by Richard D. Nolane

Will Errickson: "Talent" by Theodore Sturgeon, Beyond: Fantasy Fiction, September 1953, edited by H. L. Gold; "Naturally" by Fredric Brown, Beyond, September 1954, edited by Gold

Rich Horton: Peace by Gene Wolfe (and the stories "retold" in it); Olivia (a novella) by "Olivia" (Dorothy Strachey Bussy)

Jerry House: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Tracy K: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi; Nearly Nero by Loren D. Estleman

Steve Lewis: Weird Tales, January 1949, edited by Dorothy McIlwraith; Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1967, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

Neeru: Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (translated by Edna Hurup) A children's novel, therefore basically a novella (a woman's work in translation entry)

James Reasoner: Texas Rangers, July 1949, edited by ?G. B. Farnum

Steven H. Silver: "Cronus" by Marianne Puxley, Interzone, May-June 1989, edited by Simon Ournsley and David Pringle

Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic Stories,August 1969, edited by Ted White 

and:

Evan Lewis: some 1934 Spicy Detective covers

K. A. Laity: "Murder, Surrealism, Women’s Rage, and Les Abysses"

William Gibson and Malcolm Edwards: On Neuromancer