Happy Holidays everybody! I’ll be taking a break from blogging for a couple of weeks while I celebrate the holiday season with my family and do some gaming with my friends. I’ll be back in January with more science fiction short story reviews and Flash Fiction Fridays. See you then, -Rusty

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“Death and Suffrage” is a 2002 science fiction novelette by Dale Bailey. It is about a Presidential campaign manager who begins to doubt his abilities in the midst of a zombie-induced re-vote.

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Happy 2nd birthday to me and my web site! Yep, two years ago today was the start of all the fun and mayhem that is known as BestScienceFictionStories.com. It has been a good and fun two years. Feel free to bake me a cake (I like chocolate), buy me a gift (I am a fan [...]

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365 Tomorrows: That great web site where you can read… well, 365 stories about, you know – tomorrow!

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Bizarrely Connected Stories: In which I find a strange theme connecting several previously reviewed short stories. Today’s feature: Five Science Fiction Christmas Stories!

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“Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” is a 2009 science fiction novelette, with a very long title I might add, by Eugie Foster. It is about a society whose members must wear different, personality-altering masks each day – and what happens when the taboo of removing those masks are broken!

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Today we’re back to the web site that is quickly becoming one of my favorites – Flash Fiction Online.

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“‘Tis the Season” is a 2004 science fiction short story by China Miéville. It is about a man who takes his teenage daughter to the one official Christmas party in London’s highly privatised holiday season.

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Hidey-ho web neighbors! Today we’ll be exploring a couple of very short stories from Australia’s flash fiction site AntipodeanSF.

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