AndyHat's 2004 Recommended Reading
This is a list of stories published in 2004 that I think are particularly worth reading. It is a subset of all the 2004 stories I've read. You can also see my very top picks for 2004.
Stories available online are linked from this page. Please see my sources page for information on other publications.
Please send corrections or comments to web@andyhat.net.
Novellas
Novelettes
- "Father of Democracy", Mina Athanasopoulos (Orb #6)
- "Tales of Nireym", Lee Battersby (Orb #6)
- "This Tragic Glass", Elizabeth Bear (Sci Fiction 4/7/04)
- "Sky Light", David Brin (All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories)
- "Iridescence", Jay Caselberg (The Third Alternative #37)
- "Serostatus", John Peyton Cooke (F&SF 1/04)
- "Anda's Game", Cory Doctorow (Salon.com 11/15/04)
- "Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?", John Grant (The Third Alternative #38)
- "The Old House Under the Snow Where Nobody Goes Except You and Me Tonight", Rhys Hughes (Postscripts #2)
- "St. Ailbe's Hall", Naomi Kritzer (Strange Horizons 1/26/04)
- "Daddy's Caliban", Jay Lake (American Sorrows; The Third Alternative #39)
- "The River Knows Its Own", Jay Lake (American Sorrows)
- William's Diary, Michael McBride (Black Death Books)
- "Inappropriate Behavior", Pat Murphy (Sci Fiction 2/11/04)
- "This Old Man", Steven Popkes (Asimov's 1/04)
- "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes' by Benjamin Rosenbaum", Benjamin Rosenbaum (All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories)
- "Songs the Sirens Sing", Mary Rosenblum (Asimov's 1/04)
- "The Voluntary State", Christopher Rowe (Sci Fiction 5/4/04)
- "Home by the Sea", Cat Sparks (Orb #6)
- "Tribal Convictions", Jetse de Vries (Peridot Books Spring 2004)
Short Stories
- "The Silence of the Iambs", Chris Abouzeid (Agni #59)
- "Ghosts", Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Zoetrope: All-Story #4)
- "To Crown a Sand Castle Just Right", T.J. Berg (Talebones #28)
- "Scout's Honor", Terry Bisson (Sci Fiction 1/28/04)
- "Jumpstart Heart", Michael Brockington (On Spec Spring 2004)
- "A Choice of Eternities", Eric Brown (Postscripts #1)
- "The R Quotient", Nathan Burrage (Orb #6)
- "Lo-Fi", Richard Butner (Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories)
- "The Rules of Gambling", Richard Butner (Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories)
- "The Eckener Alternative", James L. Cambias (All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories)
- "Original Sin", Lawrence Gordon Clark (Postscripts #1)
- "Antickes and Frets", Susanna Clarke (The New York Times 10/31/04)
- "The Half-Fey House", J. Cox (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 6/04)
- "On Display Among the Lesser", Carol Emshwiller (Sci Fiction 4/14/04)
- "The Masked City", Melanie Fazi (F&SF 5/04)
- "The Correct Reponse", Manfred Gabriel (Tales of the Unanticipated #25)
- "The Chitin Heart", Victoria Elisabeth Garcia (Unspeakable Vitrine)
- "Coming to Terms", Eileen Gunn (Stable Strategies and Others)
- "Coal Ash and Sparrows", Michael J. Jasper (Asimov's 1/04)
- "Mockingbird Girl", Aynjel Kaye (Full Unit Hookup #5)
- "Pride and Joy", Etgar Keret (Swink #1)
- "Music Lessons", Douglas Lain (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 6/04)
- "The Rose Egg", Jay Lake (Postscripts #1)
- "Seventeen Syllables", James Lovegrove (Postscripts #1)
- "By the Sweat of Your Brow", Dave Luckett (Borderlands #3)
- "The Superb Grace of the Steel Beam, the Delicacy of Reinforced Concrete", Andrew Macrae (Orb #6)
- "Quiet Types, Loners Mostly", Nick Mamatas (Dark Fluidity 4/04)
- "Daily Grind", Chuck McKenzie (Infinitas Bookshop Newsletter 7-8/04)
- "Doctor Mighty and the Case of Ennui", Paul Melko (Strange Horizons 2/16/04)
- "Ten Sigmas", Paul Melko (Talebones #28)
- "The Long Run", John Morressy (F&SF 5/04)
- "Ragdog", Susan Mosser (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 6/04)
- "The Night Bookmobile", Audrey Niffenegger (Zoetrope: All-Story #4)
- "Jewels in a Jasper Cup", Rita Oakes (The Dogtown Review #1)
- "Wealth", Robert Reed (Asimov's 4-5/04)
- "Cobbling Together a Solution", Mike Resnick (Amazing Stories 10/04)
- "The Enchanted Trousseau", Deborah Roggie (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 6/04)
- "Embracing-the-New", Benjamin Rosenbaum (Asimov's 1/04)
- "Lilies", Iain Rowan (Postscripts #2)
- "Jordan's Place", Alfie Rue (Tales of the Unanticipated #25)
- "A Note About the Type", David J. Schwartz (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 6/04)
- "Three Tales from Sky River: Myths for a Starfaring Age", Vandana Singh (Strange Horizons 1/5/04)
- "Bully for You", Peter Andrew Smith (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 6-7/04)
- "A Time for Everything", Peter Andrew Smith (Neo-Opsis #3)
- "Last Dance at the Sergeant Majors' Ball", Cat Sparks (Borderlands #3)
- "Why I Am Not Gorilla Girl", Daniel Starr (Strange Horizons 4/5/04)
- "The Luck of Willie Lumen", Hayden Trenholm (Neo-Opsis #3)
- "The Gods at Rest", Jeffrey Turner (Talebones #28)
- "Shark God Versus Octopus God", Jeff VanderMeer (Postscripts #2)
- "After the Golden Age", Carrie Vaughn (The Dogtown Review #1)
- "Gas", Ray Vukcevich (F&SF 4/04)
- "Why a Duck", Leslie What (All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories)
- "Century to Starboard", Liz Williams (Strange Horizons 2/2/04)
- "The Marsella", Liz Williams (Electric Velocipede #7)
- "Hunters", F. Paul Wilson (A Little Beige Book of Nondescript Stories)
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