In which I choose 7 interesting links to posts that are important to me in one way or another.
continue reading "The 7 Link Challenge"

Hey everyone,

I’m going to be out of town for the next few weeks, so I’ll be taking a break from posting short story reviews. I’ll be back at the end of July, but until then you can satisfy your science fiction cravings by visiting one of my favorite sites:

Variety SF
Free SF Reader
SF Signal

See you later!
-Rusty

The Encyclopedists is part 2 of the first Foundation novel. It is here that we get our first glimpse of life on Terminus, the planet on the edge of the galaxy chosen to be the home of the Foundation.
continue reading "The Foundation Project: The Encyclopedists"

The Psychohistorians is the first part (or story) in the first Foundation novel. It begins by introducing us to Gaal Dornick who, with his newly minted doctorate degree in mathematics, is making his first inter-planetary trip to Trantor, the seat of the Galactic Empire.
continue reading "The Foundation Project: The Psychohistorians"

It’s true. When I heard that Jason Sanford was looking for some people familiar with genre fiction to be preliminary judges in this year’s Million Writer’s Award I volunteered.
continue reading "I was a Million Writers Award judge!"

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

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 of science-fictiony things… in case you didn’t know) or just congratulate me.
continue reading "Happy 2nd Birthday!"

Bizarrely Connected Stories: In which I find a strange theme connecting several previously reviewed short stories. Today’s feature: Five Science Fiction Christmas Stories!
continue reading "5 Christmas Themed Science Fiction Stories"

Hidey-ho web neighbors! Today we’ll be exploring a couple of very short stories from Australia’s flash fiction site AntipodeanSF.
continue reading "Flash Fiction Friday: Modern Women and Ancient Fish"

Well, it’s that time of year again when we start thinking about presents to give to our family and friends. This year I thought I would help out and suggest some cool gift ideas based on science fiction short stories.
continue reading "9 Christmas Gift Ideas: Movie Bundles Based on Science Fiction Short Stories"

Bizarrely Connected Stories: In which I find a strange theme connecting several previously reviewed short stories. Today’s feature: Ten Science Fiction Halloween Stories!
continue reading "Ten Science Fiction Halloween Stories"

Bizarrely Connected Stories: In which I find a strange theme connecting several previously reviewed short stories. Today’s feature: Five Science Fiction Stories About Kids With Powerful Objects!
continue reading "Five Science Fiction Stories About Kids With Powerful Objects"

Do you like reading but don’t have enough time to read everything you want? How does reading a story (or book for that matter) in 5 minutes a day sound? You may be surprised how convenient that really is! If you are interested then DailyLit.com is the place for you.
continue reading "Read Science Fiction Stories in Chunks at DailyLit.com"

Bizarrely Connected Stories: In which I find a strange theme connecting several previously reviewed short stories. Today’s feature: Six Science Fiction Stories Containing Altered Human Bodies!
continue reading "Six Science Fiction Stories Containing Altered Human Bodies"

Every once in a while I come across a true gem of a short story web site. A site so good, and with so many free stories, that that I am sucked into it for hours. Such a site is Lewis Shiner’s Fiction Liberation Front. It is hands-down the best collection of writings I have ever seen an author put on the web. It is so good that when I visit other authors’ sites I hang my head and sigh, wishing that they could be as awesome as Fiction Liberation Front.
continue reading "Lewis Shiner’s Fiction Liberation Front"

If you want to read some of the most famous science fiction short stories of all time then your best bet is The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One. Edited by Robert Silverberg (himself a famous SF author), the 26 stories in this amazing collection were “chosen by vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America.”
continue reading "Book Review: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One"

Bizarrely Connected Stories: In which I find a strange theme connecting several previously reviewed short stories. Today’s feature: Seven Science Fiction Stories About Powerful Children!
continue reading "Seven Science Fiction Stories About Powerful Children"

I just found out that my blog is #76. “Number 76 of what?” you may ask. Well, apparently one web site for online colleges has listed BestScienceFictionStories.com as one of the 100 Best Blogs for Book Reviews. Pretty amazing huh?
continue reading "I am #76!"

Back in July I was contacted by an author, DCS, who asked if I would be willing to review her novel if she sent me a free copy. It sounded like a pretty cool story so I agreed. Now that I’ve read it, here are my thoughts about it.
continue reading "Synarchy Book 1: The Awakening by DCS"

About a year ago I came to the sad realization that I had never read anything by Philip K. Dick – not stories, not novels, not anything. Shocking, I know. So to rectify the situation I decided to read some of his short stories. There were a couple of problems, though.
continue reading "Book Review: The Philip K. Dick Reader"