May is Short Story Month on NextRead. I’ve piled 25 plus collections of short stories on my desk in preparation for Short Story Month. My plan is to revisit stories that I’ve loved so I can share them and explore some of the many wonderful tales that I’ve not had chance to read.
The collections are a mix of themes like Extraordinary Engines – The Definite Steampunk Anthology to the new collection Journeys by Ian R Macleod that’s not out until the end of August.
They are mostly genre, more fantasy the science fiction and contain a mix of names from the bestselling to the first published. The collections come from big publishers to small press.
The sad thing is that even though I think that one short story can be worth the price of a collection I’m not sure that mainstream buyers share that view, at least if anecdotal evidence is anything to do by.
But that doesn’t stop writers from writing them or from the appearing all over the internet or from publishers like PS Publishing making them a core part of their catalogue.
This month I’m going to be sharing reviews and comments from some lovely people that have agreed to help me and I’m going to try and cover as wide a range as I can.
That’s it really. I hope you enjoy this month’s theme.
1 May, 2010 at 10:24 am
Mine has to be Joe Hill’s “Pop Art” from his 20th Century Ghosts collection. Beautifully written, incredibly haunting tale that never fails to move me. Lost count of how many times I have read it now..
1 May, 2010 at 10:42 am
Ok, I’m reading that one. I have that in the pile!
1 May, 2010 at 10:24 am
Mine has to be Joe Hill’s “Pop Art” from his 20th Century Ghosts collection. Beautifully written, incredibly haunting tale that never fails to move me. Lost count of how many times I have read it now..
1 May, 2010 at 10:42 am
Ok, I’m reading that one. I have that in the pile!
1 May, 2010 at 10:31 am
Jorge Luis Borges’s “El Aleph”.
“I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the Aleph and in the Aleph the earth; I saw my own face and my own bowels; I saw your face; and I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes had seen that secret and conjectured object whose name is common to all men but which no man has looked upon — the unimaginable universe.”
1 May, 2010 at 10:43 am
now that is powerful stuff!
Oh just found it online – think it’s kosha:
http://www.phinnweb.org/links/literature/borges/aleph.html
1 May, 2010 at 10:31 am
Jorge Luis Borges’s “El Aleph”.
“I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the Aleph and in the Aleph the earth; I saw my own face and my own bowels; I saw your face; and I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes had seen that secret and conjectured object whose name is common to all men but which no man has looked upon — the unimaginable universe.”
1 May, 2010 at 10:43 am
now that is powerful stuff!
Oh just found it online – think it’s kosha:
http://www.phinnweb.org/links/literature/borges/aleph.html
1 May, 2010 at 10:24 am
Mine has to be Joe Hill's “Pop Art” from his 20th Century Ghosts collection. Beautifully written, incredibly haunting tale that never fails to move me. Lost count of how many times I have read it now..
1 May, 2010 at 10:31 am
Jorge Luis Borges's “El Aleph”.
“I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the Aleph and in the Aleph the earth; I saw my own face and my own bowels; I saw your face; and I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes had seen that secret and conjectured object whose name is common to all men but which no man has looked upon — the unimaginable universe.”
1 May, 2010 at 10:42 am
Ok, I'm reading that one. I have that in the pile!
1 May, 2010 at 10:43 am
now that is powerful stuff!