The short story is the perfect form for sci-fi. It allows a writer to explore a big idea in a very small space. Each of the stories listed here imagines a world that’s different from our own in some brilliant or terrible way – with few aliens or spaceships in sight…
Tag: Fiction
Literary Lists: Webcomics
Webcomics may have started as a relatively simplistic medium, but throughout the 21st century they have grown and matured, as new artists experiment with what can be done within the confines of a single page. As a result, what was once a format dominated by short, surrealist jokes has blossomed into an exciting and ever-evolving branch of literature…
Neon’s 2019 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Best Small Fictions is one of our favourite annual anthologies. Every year it features a huge range of tiny stories and hybrid fiction. This year it’s managed by Sonder Press, and – just as we always do – we’ve put forward a couple of our favourite small fictions for possible inclusion…
Neon’s 2018 Best Small Fictions Nominations
One of the last things we did in 2018 was send off our nominations for the Best Small Fictions anthology – an annual collection of the best short and hybrid fiction collated by Braddock Avenue Books. In past years a number of stories which which first appeared in Neon have have gone on to grace the pages of a BSF anthology, including Lydia Armstrong’s “The November We Are Fifteen” and Claire Joanne Huxham’s “Correspondence”…