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My Water Costs Too Much! What can I do?

“Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora”, Sheree Renée Thomas editor, 2000 Aspect/Warner Books

“Uncertain Sons and Other Stories”, by Thomas Ha, 2025 Undertow Publications

The Joy of Speculative Fiction by an Author who Really Knows the Setting

Novels in Speculative Fiction Anthologies?

“Tales from the Territory”, a Travis Baldree collection, Fall 2026 Subterranean Press

“The Universe Box”, a Michael Swanwick collection, 2026 Tachyon Publications

” Sister Svangerd and the Devil You Know”, a novel by K. J. Parker, May 12, 2026 Orbit

“The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination”, Philip Van Doren Stern editor, 1943 Doubleday, Doran

Dave’s “Selected Short Fiction of Algis Budrys”

The Martian Trilogy (John P. Moore, Amazing Stories, Black Science Fiction, and The Illustrated Features Section), 2025 Amazing Stories

My 2026 (2025) Hugo Award nominations

“Rabbit Test and Other Stories”, Samantha Mills, April 21, 2026 Tachyon

“The Best of World SF: Volume 1”, Lavie Tidhar editor, 2021 Ad Astra/Head of Zeus

Not “Hellhounds of the Cosmos”! Looking for Clifford D. Simak’s First Great Fiction

“Radiant Star”, an Ancillary Universe novel by Ann Leckie, May 2026 Orbit

“The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky”, February 28, 2026 Subterranean

“The Best of Lucius Shepard”, 2008 Subterranean Press

“Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens”, an Eleanor Arnason collection, 2016 Aqueduct Press

“The Clingerman Files”, Mark Bradley editor, 2017 Size 5 1/2 B Publishing, and More

“Harmattan Season”, a novel by Tochi Onyebuchi, 2025 Tor

Dogs and Speculative Fiction – The Second Time Around

Revisiting Best SF Novel Lists

“Cyberabad Days”, an Ian McDonald collection, 2009 Pyr/Prometheus

“The Hard SF Renaissance”, Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell editors, 2002 Tor

My Water Bill Just Blew Up! Leaks and Losses and Water Meters, Oh My!

“The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World”, Harlan Ellison collection, 1969 Avon

“Belladonna Nights and Other Stories”, a collection by Alastair Reynolds, 2021 Subterranean Press

Climbing and Speculative Fiction

“The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective”, 2012 Subterranean Press

“Editor’s Choice in Science Fiction”, Sam Moskowitz editor, 1954 McBride Company

“Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller”, Matthew Cheney editor, 2025 Third Man Books

“Wireless”, a Charles Stross collection, 2009 Ace Books

“S-F: The Year’s Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy” (the First of the Series!), Judith Merril editor, 1956 Dell

Reading John Crowley’s Short Speculative Fiction

What To make of J. G. Ballard’s Short Fiction

“The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories”, Gene Wolfe collection, 1980 Pocket Books

Damon Knight’s Survey of SF #2, “A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels”, 1964 Delacorte

Damon Knight’s Survey of SF #1, “A Century of Science Fiction”, 1962 Simon & Schuster

Solo Stories of SFF

Damon Knight’s Survey of SF #3, “One Hundred Years of Science Fiction”, 1968 Simon & Schuster

5 SF Novels by Authors I Think Deserve More Recognition

Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy read as short fiction

“Talk Like a Man Plus Women of the Doll Plus An Awfully Big Adventure and Much More”, Nisi Shawl, 2019 PM Press

Bicycling and Speculative Fiction

“The First Law of Thermodynamics Plus Someone Else’s Problem Plus Who Owns Cyberpunk? and Much More”, James Patrick Kelly, 2021 PM Press

“6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction”, Groff Conklin editor, 1954 Dell

“The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction”, Edward L. Ferman editor, 1985 Octopus Books

“How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems that Shape Our World”, Deb Chachra, 2023 Riverhead Books

Women Write: An Overview of Women in SFF history

The Evolution of Comics

Why Anthologies?

The Fantastic Four: The First Family of Comics