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If you are feeling bewildered about the lack of NZ content at the Hugos, one of the easiest ways you can expose your eyeballs to some glorious Aotearoa SFF is this sizzling hot off the press Year's Best anthology from @PaperRoadPress https://books2read.com/u/4EolEM
And how about some online NZ reads? My Sir Julius Vogel-shortlisted serial INTO THE MIRE is free for anyone anytime. Two books, two shorts, and a novella's worth of content! A diverse cast of extremely haunted mercenaries trying to escape a hellswamp! http://www.intothemire.com
Or how about this thought-provoking story from SFF short fic and novella powerhouse @andicbuchanan in Kaleidotrope? Wasps and house renovations and a very "this is why NZ needs an updated building code" vibe.
http://www.kaleidotrope.net/summer-2020/the-wasp-keepers-mother-by-andi-c-buchanan/
http://www.kaleidotrope.net/summer-2020/the-wasp-keepers-mother-by-andi-c-buchanan/
Tamsyn Muir is another Aotearoa author who was not identified as such during the Hugos for who knows goddamn why. You can read her short story UNION in Clarkesworld mag, and this story just drips with kiwi tone and attitudes. Rattle ya dags and read this http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/muir_12_15/
How about some dark fabulist romance courtesy of @toniwaiaroha in homegrown publication Takahē Magazine (they're coming up on their 100th issue! so much to go check out and read!).
Would you literally give your heart to the person you loved?
https://www.takahe.org.nz/t96/t96-toni-wi/
Would you literally give your heart to the person you loved?
https://www.takahe.org.nz/t96/t96-toni-wi/
And another SJV winner, this one by @MelHardingShaw.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/saturday-short-story-the-fisher-bymelanie-harding-shaw
Who would think a God would wear such a tatty jacket?
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/saturday-short-story-the-fisher-bymelanie-harding-shaw
Who would think a God would wear such a tatty jacket?
@ TEAM: THE SKY IS DEAD, PLEASE RESPOND is a wonderful piece of modern sci-horror poetry by @understatesmen. I think about this every time I get a vaguely poetic spam comment on a website https://www.theunderstatesmen.com/2019/08/30/team-the-sky-is-dead-please-respond/
Another SJV nominee, Saf Davidson writes games, online serial fiction, and interactive fiction that explore themes such as the intersection of AI and humanity, body-swapping, and robots that look after sheep.
Read her serial TOURIST here: https://notsafforwork.com/tourist/
Read her serial TOURIST here: https://notsafforwork.com/tourist/
I am keeping this thread only to online-available works, but make a smidge of an exception for this lecture from genre and wider fiction mainstay Tina Makereti on the challenges we face when choosing what to centre in our literature discussion: https://e-tangata.co.nz/arts/tina-makereti-stories-can-save-your-life/
