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We review SF & Fantasy short fiction, initially with a focus on the UK scene and other under-reviewed sites. Account maintained by @jonlaidlow.bsky.social Check out our reviews at https://supernova.reviews
On co-reviewer's Alan's recommendation, I read @robgillham.bsky.social's "This Sepulchral Aegis" in @clarkesworldmagazine.com and it is terrific! That's our bonus recommendation for this week. A dark clash of minds and technologies on a generation ship... clarkesworldmagazine.com/gillham_12_25/
Alan reviews Wyldblood 16 @wyldblood.bsky.social and asks why you're not subscribing to this excellent publication! Standout story this time from
@robgillham.bsky.social but they're all great!
Supernova returns with a review of last year's Mythaxis #43 @mythaxis.bsky.social
While Jonathan is busy visiting Seaforth and recording what he finds, Alan took the time to review Parsec #14 - another superb issue with great stories by Adam Roberts, Mike Cobley, Teika Smits, Dave Hutchinson AND MORE!
Lots of discussion lately about increased interest in short fiction, and we love that. We have 25 years of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction stories for you to read. And we would love to do 25 more, if you can help. kck.st/4mIkEm1
Alan reviews the latest edition of the excellent @shoreinf.bsky.social - Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.
I’m not saying you should give all your money to support the short fiction magazines we highlight, but…. Would you consider it? Here’s another excellent one for your consideration!
Of course i meant *short fiction*. Sigh.
Well this looks like great fun and has a wonderful line up. Support shot fiction if you can!
Strange Horizons is getting close to their goal, back them to get another year of stories from this fine Hugo winning zine.
Behind the news, but do please consider supporting BCS, or any of the other fine short fiction magazines that are out there struggling for support and/or readers.
Interzone #301
An upsettingly late review of a brilliant issue of Interzone. Stand out stories by Corey Jae White and Ashley Stokes.
So late, so late. Just finishing off my review of @interzone.press #301 and #302 is already out! Short version is - it's fab. Particularly recommend amazing stories by @coreyjwhite.com and @ashleystokes.bsky.social which I have struggled to do justice to in the review. Pls standby
The Creator by Aliya Whiteley
(Newcon Press 2025) The new novella by 2025 BSFA award-winner Aliya Whiteley is expertly written – it's a pastiche of those mid-century country house novels married to a couple of pulpy genre plots, and it all fits together really well. There’s not a moment wasted…
Mythaxis #41 – Spring 2025
Some strong stories in the latest edition of Mythaxis.
A Tiding of Magpies / Pete W. Sutton.
One of the questions I ask when reviewing a single author anthology is ‘what’s special about it?’ There are plenty of story collections that are perfectly good but nonetheless fail to create that frisson of intrigue that makes them shine. In Pete W. Sutton's A…
Alan really enjoyed the latest issue of WYLDBLOOD magazine. Find out which stories stood out by reading our latest review.
After the Christmas holidays and the new-year slump, Alan gets back in the saddle with a review of the most recent issue of Parsec.
It seems that Supernova has been longlisted in the Best Short Non Fiction category of the @bsfa.bsky.social awards. Thank you to whoever nominated us, we really appreciate it.
So sad to see another short fiction magazine closing. Hexagon published a lot of great stories, which takes a lot of energy and effort, we salute them for all of their hard work across 20 issues.
New year, new short fiction reviews! Alan has been catching up on @mythaxis.bsky.social - an excellent and free-to-read quarterly zine. Check out our review and then check out Mythaxis! supernova.reviews/2025/01/10/m...
Happy New Year from Supernova! We're catching up on reviews again - here's what I thought of Interzone 300 supernova.reviews/2025/01/05/i...
Another strong issue, standout story for me was by Rachael Cupp - check it out!
@interzone.press
Small Wonders Issue 18 (December 2024) cover. The cover art, by Angela Patera, is of a mechanical owl sitting on a sheet-metal-looking tree. Glowing metal stars and a crescent moon hang from the tree's branches around the owl. The issue includes stories and poems by Jenna Hanchey & Marco Dehnert, H.V. Patterson, Benjamin C. Kinney, Annika Barranti Klein, Diana Olney, Kathryn Healy, S.L. Harris, Eleanor Ball, and Sylvia Heike. Editors are Cislyn Smith and Stephen Granade.
Issue 18 is coming next week! Here's the cover, with art by Angela Patera. Subscribe or pick up individual issues at store.smallwondersmag.com.
Another new post of short fiction reviews from us! What is going on! This is a delayed review of PARSEC #11 from @pspublish.bsky.social which came out in August. It's a great issue with stories by @aptshadow.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social and more! supernova.reviews/2024/11/28/p...
We’re so glad you enjoyed it! Submissions are currently open for Issue 19 - details can be found here britishfantasysociety.org/get-in-touch...
As promised, new reviews at Supernova! First up, Alan looks at the latest issue of BFS Horizons, fiction magazine of the British Fantasy Society and likes what he finds @britfantasysoc.bsky.social . supernova.reviews/2024/11/27/b...
Today's short fiction recommendation: "Loneliness Universe" by @foxesandroses.bsky.social published by @uncannymagazine.bsky.social It is beautifully warm, terrifyingly sad, achingly familiar.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
Supernova reviews have been quiet the last few months but we have some new posts on their way today and tomorrow. I hope to make us more active with short fiction recs on this account, but don't hold me to it!