Reading club, that is. As mooted when we finished the Hugo short fiction discussions, I think I’m going to continue reading and inviting discussion about a story a week, at least for a while. The format remains the same: I’ll post a reminder on Friday, and a discussion post on Sunday that rounds up as much comment as I can find — which will probably be less than for the Hugo nominees, since I plan to focus on stories published for the first time in English this year.

Here’s my current list of things that have either caught my eye, or are by authors I already know I’m interested in, or have cropped up as recommendations somewhere (notably Rich Horton’s short fiction reviews in Locus), with discussion dates:

• “The Best Monkey” by Daniel Abraham [discussion]
• “A Tiny Feast” by Chris Adrian [discussion]
• “This Must Be The Place” by Elliott Bangs [discussion]
• “The Rising Waters” by Benjamin Crowell [discussion]
• “The Puma” by Theodora Goss [discussion]
• “The Slows” by Gail Hareven [discussion]
• “Oh He Is” by Karen Heuler [discussion]
• “Trembling Blue Stars” by Richard Kadrey [discussion]
• “A Tulip for Lucretius” by Ken MacLeod [discussion]
• “From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7” by Nnedi Okorafor [Discussion]
• “Thieves of Silence” by Holly Phillips [discussion]
• “The Shangri-La Affair” by Lavie Tidhar [discussion]
• “A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon” by Ken Scholes [discussion]
• “Unrest” by Grace Seybold [discussion]
• “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky [discussion]
• “The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” by Catherynne M Valente [discussion]

I think there’s a pretty good variety of styles and content in there, but of course the proof will be in the reading.