Short Story Sunday - Archives

It’s time for a new project here at Shared Universe Reviews. Spurred on by the success I’ve had with The Blog Fantastic project, I wanted to do something that was related to science fiction, another genre I love but I feel I haven’t explored deeply enough. Heck, I’m well aware that I’ve only scratched the surface. As much as I’d like to give science fiction its due by discover some of the classic and contemporary works by authors new and familiar to me, I just don’t have the time. While my output has slowly gone down since I first started SUR, I’ve stabilized it to a regular schedule of one post a week. The problem is that I’m not fully satisfied with that. It doesn’t feel like enough but it might already be too much since some weeks I struggle to hit my self-imposed deadline.

All of this led to an idea. Writing smaller posts on short stories and uploading them once a week. This way I can combined my goal of posting more frequently while exploring more science fiction authors. That the goal is also for writing smaller posts, I figured short stories are perfect for this. Additionally, short story is a form of writing very closely linked to science fiction publications in the last hundred years, it makes sense to combine these ideas together. Short Story Sunday might not always be exclusively made up of science fiction reviews, but I’m pretty happy letting that be the main focus. With each post I’ll include where I found and read the story (online publication, best of anthology, magazine, etc.) and give the story one of the following rankings: 

1 star – Bad (bland ideas and poor execution)
2 stars – OK (unoriginal or overly familiar ideas and/or poor execution)
3 stars – Good (good ideas and/or good execution)
4 stars – Very Good (original ideas executed with skill and style)
5 stars – Excellent (a classic of the short story form, highly recommended)


Short Story Sunday 013, featuring Alastair Reynolds, David Langford, and Michael Swanwick
Short Story Sunday 014, featuring Andy Ducan, Charles de Lint, and a tribute to David G. Hartwell
Short Story Sunday 015, featuring Catherynne M. Valente and Rick Cook
Short Story Sunday 016, featuring Vernor Vinge
Short Story Sunday 017, featuring John Moore and Harry Turtledove
Short Story Sunday 018, Reading Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warning, Part One
Short Story Sunday 019: featuring Ashok Banker, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxson
Short Story Sunday 020: featuring Gene Wolfe and Patrick O’Leary
Short Story Sunday 021: featuring Jo Walton and Ted Chiang
Short Story Sunday 022: "Rogues in the House" by Robert E. Howard (Reading Conan 07)
Short Story Sunday 023: "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" by Robert E. Howard (Reading Conan 08)
Short Story Sunday 024, featuring Brenda Cooper and Gregory Benford




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