Following up on her first collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. It requires less commitment than reading a novel, and I love discovering authors through their short stories before they’ve written their first novel. And short stories are great places to discover new authors. I love my epic series like any other SFF fan, but sometimes I crave bite-size pieces. And hey, I like that feeling of being completely immersed in a new world for 20 minutes, and then being finished. They encapsulate the emotional impact of a single moment much like a poem does, but unlike poetry, they still give richness and depth to character and setting.

I read SFF short stories for many reasons. Valente, China Miéville, and Neil Gaiman, among others. Still other SFF authors readily switch back and forth between long and short works - Catherynne M. Others prefer writing short stories - like Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado. Some get their own start in shorter works and later turn to novels - like Ken Liu, Yoon Ha Lee, and Theodora Goss. However, many fantastic SFF writers write short stories, for many reasons. Nowadays, short stories take the back burner to novels and epic series for most SFF fans.

SFF short story collections were hugely popular with the public, and its thanks in part to these short story writers and magazines that we have epic SFF franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek. Wells wrote some of the earliest SFF fiction, the popularity of SFF as a genre started with short stories. Both the Pulp and Golden Age eras of science fiction and fantasy (from about 1920-1960) were steeped in short stories, with publications like Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction publishing the first works by SFF giants like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury, among many others. While classic authors like Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, and H.G.

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