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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

2015 Short Fiction Reading Challenge

2015 Short Fiction Reading Challenge

Short stories, novelettes, novellas--many of the most brilliant and innovative SFF works fall into one of these short fiction categories, yet they often seem to be overshadowed by full-length novels. The 2015 Short Fiction Reading Challenge focuses on the exciting range of shorter works available to SFF readers. Anthologies, single-author short story collections, standalone novellas (e.g. Wakulla Springs), and standalone novelettes (e.g. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate) are all eligible for this challenge. Rereads of anthologies and collections--though not standalone novellas or novelettes--are welcome.

This is a reprisal of last year's 2014 Short Fiction Reading Challenge, now with reading levels for the benefit of those who prefer a shorter Short Fiction Challenge. ;-)

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: February 2015 – December 2015

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Pico = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Nano = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Micro = 9 books + 3 reviews
 Milli = 12 books + 4 reviews

This challenge has expired. Please have a look at some of our other challenges for something that may interest you.

Arrenby

Arrenby

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
The Awakened Kingdom
Binti
Sisters of the Revolution:  A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
Some of Your Blood
Trigger Warning:  Short Fictions and Disturbances
daxxh

daxxh

Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak
The End of the Sentence
The Saturn Game
Slow Bullets
Tor Double #14: The Saturn Game / Iceborn
Unlocked:  An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome
devilinlaw

devilinlaw

The Ladies of Grace Adieu:  And Other Stories
The Martian Chronicles
Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis
DrNefario

DrNefario

City
The Custodians and Other Stories
Edge of Infinity
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Lye Street
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011
The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
Pump Six and Other Stories
Saint Rebor
Stranger Things Happen
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

American Innovations
The Arbitrary Placement of Walls (collection)
Blue Bamboo:  Tales of Fantasy and Romance
Conservation of Shadows
The Court of Lies
Get in Trouble:  Stories
Monstrous Affections:  An Anthology of Beastly Tales
Museum of the Weird
Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice
Searchers After Horror
The Top of the Volcano:  The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison
Trigger Warning:  Short Fictions and Disturbances
HRO

HRO

Bloodchild and Other Stories
The Ladies of Grace Adieu:  And Other Stories
The Secret History of Science Fiction
The Wilds
2
1
illegible_scribble

illegible_scribble

Dream Houses
The Forgotten Door
Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)
Legion
Legion:  Skin Deep
The Madonna and the Starship
The Regular
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Unexpected Stories
We Are All Completely Fine
Where the Trains Turn
Yesterday's Kin
Jain

Jain

Kaleidoscope:  Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories
The Sleeper and the Spindle
War Stories:  New Military Science Fiction
justifiedsinner

justifiedsinner

The Bone Forest (novella)
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
I Am Legend
Merlin's Wood
Supertoys Last All Summer Long:  and Other Stories of Future Time
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
3
2
1
pizzakarin

pizzakarin

Catfantastic II
Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind
The Martian Chronicles
portaviii

portaviii

12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Rhondak101

Rhondak101

Alchemy and Academe
Brave New Worlds:  Dystopian Stories
Burning Girls
The End of the Sentence
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
No. 472 Cheyne Walk:  Carnacki, The Untold Stories
Scale-Bright
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
We See a Different Frontier:  A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology
robotwitch

robotwitch

Binti
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Of Sorrow and Such
seattleotaku

seattleotaku

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
Binti
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Carbide Tipped Pens:  Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Palimpsest
Press Start to Play
Tales from Earthsea
True Names
Unlocked:  An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome
The Wandering Earth:  Classic Science Fiction Collection
thereddeath

thereddeath

Dangerous Visions
2
1
tldegray

tldegray

Accessing the Future
Bless Your Mechanical Heart
The End Has Come
The End Is Now
The End of the Sentence
Falling in Love with Hominids
Help Fund My Robot Army!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects
The Mothers of Voorhisville
Outlaw Bodies
Rolling in the Deep
We Are All Completely Fine
We See a Different Frontier:  A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology
Weesam

Weesam

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Conservation of Shadows
Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories
Get in Trouble:  Stories
Salsa Nocturna
Stories of Your Life and Others
Supernatural Noir
That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote
The Thing About Great White Sharks:  And Other Stories
The Time Traveler's Almanac
Trigger Warning:  Short Fictions and Disturbances
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories