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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2014 Short Fiction Reading Challenge

2014 Short Fiction Reading Challenge

Short stories, novelettes, novellas--many of the most brilliant and innovative SFF works fall into one of these short fiction categories, yet they often seem to be overshadowed by full-length novels. The 2014 Short Fiction Reading Challenge focuses on the exciting range of shorter works available to SFF readers. Anthologies, single-author short story collections, standalone novellas (e.g. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), and standalone novelettes (e.g. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate) are all eligible for this challenge. Rereads of anthologies and collections--though not standalone novellas or novelettes--are welcome.

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: January 2014 – December 2014
Books to Read: 12
Reviews to Write: 6

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Arrenby

Arrenby

Borders of Infinity
City of Saints and Madmen
Coraline
The Dragon Masters
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Rogues
Six-Gun Snow White
Unexpected Stories
Who Goes There?
danp6

danp6

Beggars In Spain
Dangerous Visions
Fragile Things
Just an Ordinary Day:  The Uncollected Stories of Shirley Jackson
Magic for Beginners
The Shadow Year
Silently and Very Fast
Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction
Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
What Entropy Means to Me
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daxxh

daxxh

Burning Girls
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
Equoid
The Ice Owl
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
Silently and Very Fast
The Six Directions of Space
Six-Gun Snow White
The Sword of Rhiannon
Troika
Wakulla Springs
1
Divadiane

Divadiane

Brave New Worlds:  Dystopian Stories
Daughter of Elysium
The Ice Owl
Lovecraft's Monsters
The Very Best of Tad Williams
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2
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Emil

Emil

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth (collection)
Empire
The Menace From Earth
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Oceanic
Pavane
Sailing to Byzantium
Shambleau and Others
Tales from Earthsea
1
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

Adam Robots
The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All
The Bread We Eat in Dreams
The Explorer and Other Stories
How the World Became Quiet:  Myths of the Past, Present, and Future
I Travel by Night
Impossible Monsters
Meet Me at Infinity
The Science of Herself
That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote
Tyrannia and Other Renditions
1
FeminineFantastique

FeminineFantastique

Among the Thorns
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories
Burning Girls
The Heavenly Fox
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
Long Hidden:  Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History
The Mothers of Voorhisville
The Other Half of the Sky
Sleep Donation
Swan Sister:  Fairy Tales Retold
Unexpected Stories
Unlocked:  An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome
Graham Vingoe

Graham Vingoe

Adam Robots
An Ornament to His Profession
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
Black Juice
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
The New Space Opera
Nine Hundred Grandmothers
Phase Space:  Stories from the Manifold and Elsewhere
Reach for Infinity
Stories of Your Life and Others
Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis
The Time Traveler's Almanac
HRO

HRO

Bloodchild and Other Stories
In the Forest of Forgetting
The Ladies of Grace Adieu:  And Other Stories
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells:  An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy
Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories
Silently and Very Fast
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
The View from the Seventh Layer
Willful Creatures
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Jain

Jain

After the Apocalypse:  Stories
Borders of Infinity
Conservation of Shadows
The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Jagannath: Stories
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
On a Red Station, Drifting
Scale-Bright
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Turn of the Screw
1
juliael71

juliael71

Black Projects, White Knights:  The Company Dossiers
Impossible Things
The Ladies of Grace Adieu:  And Other Stories
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
Moscow But Dreaming
Phases
Pump Six and Other Stories
Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis
Unexpected Stories
3
2
1
justifiedsinner

justifiedsinner

The Atrocity Exhibition (Love and Napalm: Export USA)
Chronopolis and Other Stories
The Cyberiad
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
Odd John:  A Story Between Jest and Earnest
The Rediscovery of Man
Sirius:  A Fantasy Of Love And Discord
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3
2
1
Kata

Kata

Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis
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10
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4
3
2
1
kwaidan66

kwaidan66

Berserker
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
Dark Benediction
The Empire of Ice Cream
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Ingathering:  The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson
A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales
The Rediscovery of Man
Ribofunk
Welcome to the Monkey House
1
ManyMoons

ManyMoons

Fragile Things
Major Ingredients:  The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell
Men, Martians and Machines
Side Jobs
Somewhere a Voice
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection
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Rhondak101

Rhondak101

Black Juice
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Clockwork Man
The Illustrated Man
Kabu-Kabu
The Little Prince
Magic for Beginners
Sea Kings of Mars:   and Otherwordly Stories
Some of Your Blood
Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions
Stories for the Nighttime and Some for the Day
Unnatural Creatures
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

Berserker
Citizen in Space
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
The Human Angle
Magnus Ridolph
The Man Who Made Models:  The Collected Short Fiction Volume One
The Miracle Workers
Something Wild is Loose: 1969-72
The Ultimate Enemy
Untouched by Human Hands
The World-Thinker and Other Stories
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection