It’s Sci-Fi Friday! This week, I bring you a flash fiction piece inspired by a reader-generated prompt. “The End Game” by Chris Airiau. CW: mild sexual content, satire
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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.
“Front Row Seats”
“Once the Atmospheric Exoplanetary-Observation Narrowband telescope was announced, Lyn Coldfield began writing observation code as her undergrad project. She knew the work was purely academic, speculative, and she’d have to change—well, probably everything…”
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.
Technological Gap: Alien Invasion
Sci-Fi Fridays: Speculative SF musings… “This subject dovetails off from last week’s flash fiction post (with new art by Benjamin Specklin). The mysterious antagonists I had in mind for this story were aliens who…”
ChrisAir reviews “A Guide for Working Breeds”
The chat-log narrative format of Vina Jie-Min Prasad’s “A Guide for Working Breeds” delivers a slice-of-life story about two robot chassis who slowly get to know each other.
Sci-Fi Fridays
Preparing to launch Sci-Fi Fridays! Tomorrow starts with my One-Roll Sci-Fi Prompt generator. Read more to discover the prompt for tomorrow’s prose piece.
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.
2021 Hugo Short Fiction Series
What should you expect from my 2021 Hugo Short Fiction Reviews?
Call me ChrisAir
Or Chris, or Christopher, or Mr. Airiau. I’m not really picky. Hey there, welcome to my blog. I’m here to write about science & SF (speculative fiction as well as science fiction), and pick apart how writers tell stories in their nonfiction, fiction, and games. From time to time, I will probably write some randomContinue reading “Call me ChrisAir”
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