It’s the fifteenth of December. So it’s time to talk about the short stories, miscellaneous posts, and podcast episodes I read or listened to in November.
On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo (Tor.com; October 31, 2023)
I know Nghi Vo’s work best by The Singing Hills Cycle, a series of interconnected novellas that can be read in any order—as noted in the synopsis of the 2023 installment, Mammoths at the Gates. Since Vo is one of my favorite authors, I was very excited to check out her short story on Tor.com, On the Fox Roads. I loved this story a lot. It’s a historical cops and robbers kind of tale set in the Jazz Age—think Bonnie and Clyde—only there are subtle hints of magic from the mysterious and titular “Fox Roads.” But it’s also something of a character study, especially when I think about how the narrator was handled. Part of On the Fox Roads was their journey of discovering who they are and what they really want, within a journey that was dangerous and also extraordinary. I highly recommend this one!
From around the web…
- More than Human: Slan by A.E. van Vogt [Alan Brown; Tor.com, October 31, 2023]
- What Are We Writing About When We Write About Ghosts [Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson; Tor.com; October 31, 2023]
- To All the Book I’m Not Reading Yet [Molly Templeton; Tor.com; November 2, 2023]
- With Enough Reading Material, You Can Procrastinate Anything [Molly Templeton; November 9, 2023]
- Running Down that Hill: On Trail-Running and Writing [Costance Fey; Tor.com; November 14, 2023]
- Revealing I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle [Tor.com; November 21, 2023]
- Scalzi on Film: Speed Racer's Long Road [John Scalzi; Uncanny Magazine; Issue Fifty-Five]
- DIMENSIONS OF WONDER: George Saunders in a Haunted Mansion with Chocolate Mint [Eugenia Triantafyllou; Locus Magazine; November 28, 2023]
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