We’ve just returned from Eastercon 2017 where we caught up with author Chris Butler to talk about all aspects of writing, editing and publishing short fiction in the science fiction and fantasy genre. With so much SF&F out there, short stories, anthologies and novellas are a great way to get a flavour of genre fiction. As the convention is home to the British Science Fiction Awards, we also gave our thoughts on the stories nominated for the BSFA Short Fiction award:
- Malcolm Devlin – The End of Hope Street (Interzone #266, TTA Press)
- Jaine Fenn – Liberty Bird (Now We Are Ten, NewCon Press)
- Una McCormack – Taking Flight (Crises and Conflicts, NewCon Press)
- Helen Oyeyemi – Presence (What is Not Yours is Not Yours, Picador)
- Tade Thompson – The Apologists (Interzone #266, TTA Press)
- Aliya Whiteley – The Arrival of Missives (Unsung Stories)
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Chris has published numerous short stories in magazines (e.g. Interzone, Asimov’s) and anthologies, (e.g. The Best British Fantasy 2014) as well as the novel Any Time Now and the novella The Flight of the Ravens. He recently edited the anthology The World and the Stars. Find out more about Chris and his work, by visiting his website here.
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