(Cover above for Future Science Fiction Digest #2, March 2019. Interested parties may contact the editor at: Please note that Tangent Online is a fanzine (eligible for Hugo award consideration in the fanzine category) and does not pay its contributors. If you would like to review for Tangent Online, knowledge of the SF/F/H genres is a must, and reviewing experience is highly preferred. On the plus side, we began reviewing the following publications: Deep Magic, DreamForge, Unfit, Unreal, and Tales from the Magician’s Skull. Of the publications we review, three closed shop this year for various reasons: Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Apex, and Compelling Science Fiction. Reviewers are free to place stories on this list from any of their reading during the year, and are not restricted to those venues covered here, nor to publications they have personally reviewed. If a story is placed in an incorrect length category, please let us know and we’ll be happy to correct the oversight. Conversely, it is also possible that each reviewer held the same opinion of any given story. Where there are more than one reviewer’s initials following a story recommendation, they appear in no particular order, thus making it impossible to determine which of the reviewers provided this higher ranking. Thus, it is possible that while one reviewer placed a story on the list without any stars, another also placed it on the list but with one or more stars, thus elevating that story to the higher ranking. We have placed the story in the category receiving the most stars. From time to time you will see more than a single reviewer’s initials following a given entry. Those making the list in the short story, novelette, and novella lengths but having no stars, and those with either one, two, or three stars, according to how well the reviewer or reviewers valued a particular story. There are those who have read extensively for decades and who have experience at reviewing as well there are a few currently selling writers who know from experience what goes into crafting a work of fiction, and there are those with an academic viewpoint with wide knowledge of the genre who bring a more critical approach to the fiction they review, and place on this list.Īs is our custom, there are four sections to each length category. Some reviewers are relatively new to SF/F, while others have a long relationship with the genre but may not have experience at the reviewing end of the process. Such a list as the one below brings to it a rather broad cross section of the genre’s readership (i.e., that nameless reader at which short fiction venues are always aiming to attract ). There are just too many variables to nail down as to why any given year-or recommended reading list-has more or fewer stories placed on it by a different cast of reviewers, each of whom brings their individual set of standards to the fiction they read. However, it does seem as if each year has its own nebulous, general level of quality, with some years being commented upon in retrospect as great years for quality fiction and others not so much. As with any such list-especially ours with its ever-changing review staff-different reviewers bring different perspectives on how to approach stories and how they are measured and of course the stories themselves are of varying “quality,” if such a thing as quality can be measured by any objective standard. There are 372 stories on this year’s list (up 22 from last year’s 345): 313 short stories (up 36 from last year’s 277), 49 novelettes (down 4 from last year’s 53), and 10 novellas (down 5 from last year’s 15). As was the case with the last several years, we narrowed our focus (with some exceptions) to those stories published in professionally paying markets as defined by SFWA. Tangent Online 201 9 Recommended Reading ListĪs with previous years, this list is not meant as comprehensive, there being a number of items we didn’t see.
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