Stacking the Stories Mid-month Check In

[forestofglory]

Well It’s now about halfway through the month of July -- so it's time for a check in on the Stacking the Stories challenge.

I went a looked at my list and it turns out that I’ve read 21 stories so far. Since my goal was to read 20 stories this month I’m in excellent shape. But I’d like to keep the momentum going so I’m going to go ahead and set myself a stretch goal of 30 stories.

A good chunk of those stories are from The Trans Space Octopus Congregation: Stories by Bogi Takács, eir’s forthcoming collection. This is excellent! It will be out next fall and I plan to write more about it when it comes out. Other highlights include ”Boiled Bones and Black Eggs” by Nghi Vo and ”The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun” by Aliette de Bodard

So fellow story stackers how is it going? Are you on target for your goal? What are your favorite things that you’ve read so far?

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I finished Invisible Planets: 13 Visions of the Future from China, ed. and tr. Ken Liu, and wrote a short post on it! My favorites were Chen Qiufan's "The Fish of Lijang", Hao Jingfang's "Invisible Planets", and Liu Cixin's "Taking Care of God".

[forestofglory]

Oh, thanks. That's on my TBR -- I've read several of Liu's translations because he's done a bunch for Clarkesworld's translation project.

[spindizzy]

Yay, congrats! You are rocking this challenge!

I'm on track, give or take? I have read eighteen out of thirty-one stories, so I'm about halfway, and I've completed one of the anthologies I wanted to read! (Robots Vs Fairies, which seems to tend towards grimdark?) My favourites that I've read so far have been All The Time We've Left To Spend by Alyssa Wong and The Black God's Drums by P. Djelí Clarke, although I would 100% not recommend them to you specifically, because they're very grim!

[forestofglory]

Yay for being on track!

Yeah, I thought Robots vs Fairies was bit grim too.

Thanks for the heads up on the grimness!