John Wiswell makes his protagonist the haunted house itself. It doesn’t want people to move in to scare them, it just doesn’t want to be alone anymore.
Category Archives: 2021 Hugo Short Fiction Series
ChrisAir Reviews “Metal Like Blood in the Dark”
Like Brother and Sister, twin protagonists of “Metal Like Blood in the Dark”, Ursula Vernon transforms into her adult-audience pseudonym T. Kingfisher to spin the yarn of robot siblings in the first trying moments of their lives.
ChrisAir Reviews “The Mermaid Astronaut”
“The Mermaid Astronaut” is a delightful mix of The Little Mermaid and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Semley’s Necklace”. Its main character, Essarala, is unsurprisingly a mermaid who becomes a crew member of a spaceship. At its core, the story explores the interaction between personal ambition and its consequences, both wonderful and tragic.
ChrisAir reviews “Little Free Library”
Naomi Kritzer’s “Little Free Library” is at once a fantastic mystical tale set in modern-day St. Paul, Minnesota, and a DIY primer for building one.
ChrisAir Reviews “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse”
Rae Carson’s “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse” is a story not only about badass moms, but becoming badass moms during a zombie apocalypse. No misdirection here.
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