short story – ScienceFiction.com https://sciencefiction.com Science Fiction (sci-fi) news, books, tv, movies, comic books, video games and more... Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:32:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 Fiction Review: ‘Signal Moon’ (2022) https://sciencefiction.com/2022/07/30/fiction-review-signal-moon-2022/ https://sciencefiction.com/2022/07/30/fiction-review-signal-moon-2022/#disqus_thread Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:39:22 +0000 https://sciencefiction.com/?p=355734 Amazon has been kind enough lately to grace readers with advance copies of select forthcoming titles, and I was lucky to grab a copy of Signal Moon by Kate Quinn, which is releasing wide in August from the streaming giant.  This novella-sized tale will be available in eBook only, but it packs a pretty decent punch into a relatively bite-sized story. In 1943, at the height of World War II, Lily Baines works for her country as a “Wren,” the Y-Station listeners of the British Royal Naval Service tasked with intercepting, relaying, and sometimes deciphering the enemy transmissions they hear over the airwaves.  Armed with receivers, headphones, and their skill to transcribe as quickly as possible, Lily is but one of a team of women stationed at Withernsea on the English shoreline, working daily to do their part for the cause.  Imagine her surprise, then, when she intercepts a truly curious transmission: one coming from a United States Naval officer originating 80 years later, in 2023. This is the main premise the drives this short story from the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Quinn.  The author is intimately familiar with the 1940s Y-Station setting, having previously penned […]

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]]> https://sciencefiction.com/2022/07/30/fiction-review-signal-moon-2022/feed/ 0 Why Short Stories Of ‘The Witcher’ Were Published Prior To The First Full Novel https://sciencefiction.com/2019/12/20/why-short-stories-of-the-witcher-were-published-prior-to-the-first-full-novel/ https://sciencefiction.com/2019/12/20/why-short-stories-of-the-witcher-were-published-prior-to-the-first-full-novel/#disqus_thread Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:20:46 +0000 https://sciencefiction.com/?p=346341 ‘The Witcher’ is set to hit Netflix today, December 20th, 2019, and it will be based on short stories by author Andrzej Sapkowski. With so many adaptations being from novels these days, many may wonder why his popular work started in short form. The answer may surprise you. Netflix released a mini-interview with the author and showrunner Lauren Hissrich and the author which explain it all:   Check out Andrzej Sapkowski and showrunner Lauren Hissrich in conversation about what makes The Witcher stories so great and the process of adapting them to the screen! @LHissrich #TheWitcher pic.twitter.com/E3Y82oFETo — NX (@NXOnNetflix) December 13, 2019 About two minutes into the interview, we find out that it boils down to the fact that Sapkowski started with short stories “because nobody would publish the book.”   RELATED: Lauren Hissrich Shares Which Short Story Had To Be In ‘The Witcher’   This is one of those situations that, in retrospect, seem laughable. Much like Stephen King and J.K. Rowling, the author had received a pile of rejections before finally getting his big break. It is hard to imagine what the publishers who initially rejected these authors must now think of their decisions. Are you at […]

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]]> https://sciencefiction.com/2019/12/20/why-short-stories-of-the-witcher-were-published-prior-to-the-first-full-novel/feed/ 0 Throwback Thursday: “The Brick Moon” by Edward Everett Hale (1870) https://sciencefiction.com/2018/03/15/throwback-thursday-brick-moon-edward-everett-hale-1870/ https://sciencefiction.com/2018/03/15/throwback-thursday-brick-moon-edward-everett-hale-1870/#disqus_thread Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:56:59 +0000 http://sciencefiction.com/?p=279478 We don’t usually take our time machine further back than the 20th-century for Throwback Thursday, ScienceFiction.com’s ongoing column dedicated to the great science fiction of our past. Today, however, will be one of those times we make an exception because we are going back to 1870 with Edward Everett Hale’s “The Brick Moon.” And yes, if Hale’s name seems familiar to you, it’s because he’s famous for authoring “The Man Without a Country.” Now, I know what you’re thinking. This is not going to be good science fiction because the title is not imaginative nor is it scientifically smart. A moon made out of brick would break up quickly, after all, and we’d be having to deal with asteroids falling to earth at an alarming rate. People would die. Well, let’s just ignore that little niggling thing of imminent death by fiery brick for right now and focus on the more important parts of “The Brick Moon.” Firstly, it’s the first science fiction story to predict satellites and the first to describe what is effectively a space station. Both of those things are so prevalent in science fiction, it’s hard to believe there was a time without them, but that’s […]

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