Wrapping Up Short Fiction Month

And that completes short fiction month. I managed to read 31 stories this month and write about 30 of them. I didn't think I would manage quite that many so in that respect I am pleased with the result. I have noticed that it is much harder to write one after a long day at work though. The quality of some reviews are not what I hoped for. I did enjoy sampling work by so many authors, many of the new to me, this month. Maybe I'll do it again some time for a week instead of a month.

Here's the list of what I ended up reading.

Read:

1.  Scales - Alstair Reynolds (2009)
   
2. Folding Beijing - Hao Jingfang (2014)
3. The Star - Arthur C. Clarke (1955)
   
4. A Cup of Salt Tears - Isabel Yap (2014)
   
5. Bloodchild - Octavia Butler (1984)
   
6. Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh - Ian McDonald (1988)
   
7. The Day the World Turned Upside Down - Thomas Olde Heuvelt (2013)
8. A Salvaging of Ghosts - Aliette de Bodard (2016)
   
9. Aye, and Gomorrah . . . - Samuel R. Delany (1967)
   
10. Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death -  James Tiptree, Jr. (1973)
    
11. The Blind Geometer - Kim Stanley Robinson (1986)
    
12. The Silence of the Asonu - Ursula K. Le Guin (1998)
    
13. Neutron Star - Larry Niven (1966)
    
14. Pelt - Carol Emshwiller (1958)
15. The Language of Knives - Haralambi Markov (2015) 
16. The Cost to Be Wise - Maureen F. McHugh (1996)
17. The Owl of Bear Island - Jon Bing (1986)
18. All That Touches the Air - An Owomoyela (2011)
19. The Corpse - Sese Yane (2015) - No review
20. Prott - Margaret St. Clair (1953)
21. If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? - Theodore Sturgeon (1967) 
22. The Fish of Lijiang - Chen Qiufan (2006)
23. Faster Gun - Elizabeth Bear (2012)
24. Crying in the Rain - Tanith Lee (1987)
25. In-Fall - Ted Kosmatka (2010)
26. Walking Awake - N. K. Jemisin (2014)
27. Blood Music - Greg Bear (1983)
28. Elliot Wrote - Nancy Kress (2011)
29. Old Paint - Megan Lindholm (2012)
30. Reiko's Universe Box - Shinji Kajio (1981)
31. The Long Chase - Geoffrey A. Landis (2002) 

I will be taking a break and skip next weekend. I probably won't be able to finish a novel before then anyway. Normal service will resume the second weekend of February.