Sunday Shorts—Depot 256, by Lisa Allen-Agostini

When I read Queers Destroy Science Fiction, I found the overall tone to be somewhat depressing; often the "victory" (if there was one) was snatched from scraps, and flavoured with settling-for rather than triumphant (and part of it was maybe having listened to it at the wrong time of year, in the depths of cold, …

Sunday Shorts—Tip of the Tongue by Felicia Davin

Back to Queers Destroy Science Fiction again this week, and I skipped a story where the narration made it almost impossible to follow (no fault to the author there), and I'm back with "Tip of the Tongue" by Felicia Davin. As dystopias go, this one struck me down to the bone. It takes place in …

Sunday Shorts—Excerpts from the Personal Journal of Dr. V. Frankenstein, MD, Department of Pathology, Our Lady of Mercy Hospital by Alex Acks

I do love a re-telling, and this one, by Alex Acks, takes Victor Frankenstein and nudges the tale forward to take place during the 1960's through to the 1980's. Conceptually, this changes a few key pieces: the involvement of funding, the NIH, and academic politics, but where this story from We Shall Be Monsters really …

Sunday Shorts—Treasured Island by Ginn Hale

I've never been a pirate person, but after reading Catherine Lundoff's introduction to Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), I realized a good deal of why: so much of the pirates of fiction (and nonfiction) that I'd been shown were out of my wheelhouse. Handsome, white, straight guys doing their tales of derring-do …

Sunday Shorts—A Good Home, by Karin Lowachee

Oh wow, how I loved this story. The perfect way to open People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction, "A Good Home" weaves a few key elements into a single narrative, and does it freaking flawlessly. First? We've got a PTSD suffering soldier (an android, which is a key component of the story: that we created …

Sunday Shorts—Lava Falls by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Lava Falls is the novella for which Lucy Jane Bledsoe's collection is named, and I while I mentioned the first story in the collection (Girl with Boat) way back in January as one of the best opening tales in a collection I've ever read, this novella? Masterful. I'm not sure I can do the narrative …