I have a backlog of short SFF that I would like to read. I’ve been consuming other awesome media and gotten very behind -- but there’s awesome sound short SFF I would like to get around to so I’m giving myself a bit of a push to prioritize the short SFF. I’ll be doing a short fiction reading challenge for the month of July and I thought I’d invite everyone else to play along.
If you don’t have short fiction TBR but you’d like to try some short SFF this could be a great way to dip your toes in. If you are looking for recs check my short fiction tag. Most of the stuff I rec is free to read online. If you’d like recs for stuff published this year check out the 2019-2020 Hugo Sheet. There’s also some great advice for finding short SFF you’ll enjoy in this round up of short SFF reading habits I put together last year.
The rules are pretty simple. Pick a number of short works that feels right to you and try to read that many pieces of short SFF in July. My personal goal is 20 works, but you could pick more or less!. As per the Hugo Award categories a short work is anything under 40,000 words. So novellas, novettles, and short stories -- though I plan to focus on the latter two. If you would like to play along you can post about it in your own space or comment here with your goals.
Sometime in the middle of the month I will do a check in post a see how everyone is doing with their goals. At the end of the month we will have rap up post and can talk about how the whole thing went and share some recs.
Happy reading!
ETA: If you would like to talk about this challenge on Twitter I've created a hashtag: #StackingtheStories
If you don’t have short fiction TBR but you’d like to try some short SFF this could be a great way to dip your toes in. If you are looking for recs check my short fiction tag. Most of the stuff I rec is free to read online. If you’d like recs for stuff published this year check out the 2019-2020 Hugo Sheet. There’s also some great advice for finding short SFF you’ll enjoy in this round up of short SFF reading habits I put together last year.
The rules are pretty simple. Pick a number of short works that feels right to you and try to read that many pieces of short SFF in July. My personal goal is 20 works, but you could pick more or less!. As per the Hugo Award categories a short work is anything under 40,000 words. So novellas, novettles, and short stories -- though I plan to focus on the latter two. If you would like to play along you can post about it in your own space or comment here with your goals.
Sometime in the middle of the month I will do a check in post a see how everyone is doing with their goals. At the end of the month we will have rap up post and can talk about how the whole thing went and share some recs.
Happy reading!
ETA: If you would like to talk about this challenge on Twitter I've created a hashtag: #StackingtheStories
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