AndyHat's 2005 Recommended Reading
This is a list of stories published in 2005 that I think are particularly worth reading. It is a subset of all the 2005 stories I've read. You can also see my very top picks for 2005.
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
- "The Court of the Beast-Emperor", John Aegard (Interzone 5-6/05)
- "God's Gut", Eduardo J. Carletti (InterNova #1)
- "The Sky Green Box", Rudi Dornemann (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "The Chiaroscurist", Hal Duncan (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "Lost", Sarah A. Hoyt (Chronicle 10/05)
- "Gears Grind Down", Sean Melican (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "The House on Kronenstrasse", Shira Nayman (The Atlantic Fiction Issue 2005)
- "Beyond", András Pályi (Out of Oneself)
- "Zima Blue", Alastair Reynolds (Postscripts #4)
- "The Tetrahedron", Vandana Singh (InterNova #1)
- "Book of the Flagellants", Mikal Trimm (Lone Star Stories 8/05)
- "Curious Green Colours Sleep Furiously", Stephen Volk (Postscripts #3)
- "The Snow Queen", Michelle West & Debbie Ridpath Ohi (Magic Tails)
- "What Colour Is the Wind?", Aleksandar Ziljak (InterNova #1)
- "The Cell", Zoran Zivkovic (Postscripts #4)
Short Stories
- "Terminós", Dean Francis Alfar (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "The Life of Birds", Jo Van Arkel (Things That Are True 3/05)
- "The Clients of Caralios", C.S. Barlow (Infinity Plus 6/05)
- "Circle Dance", Richard Bowes (Postscripts #3)
- "Life Beyond...", Eric Brown (Postscripts #4)
- "The Little Tailor", Stephanie Burgis (Say...Have You Heard This One? #5)
- "Stitching Time", Stephanie Burgis (Fortean Bureau 3/05)
- "Home on the Rain", Jonathan Carroll (Conjunctions #44)
- "Fragments", Matthew Cheney (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "And I Will Sing a Lullaby", Paul Crilley (I, Alien)
- "The Music You Never Hear", Quinn Dalton (One Story #61)
- "Mudder Tongue", Brian Evenson (McSweeney's #16)
- "Boatman's Holiday", Jeffrey Ford (Book of Voices)
- "You and I in the Year 2012", Eric Gregory (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "Girl Reporter", Stephanie Harrell (One Story #60)
- "Manuscript Found Written in the Paw Prints of a Stoat", Samantha Henderson (Lone Star Stories 4/05)
- "Best New Horror", Joe Hill (Postscripts #3)
- "Beyond Each Blue Event Horizon", Andrew Hook (Book of Voices)
- "The Last Wave", Kay Kenyon (I, Alien)
- "Degrees of Separation", Richard Kerslake (Borderlands #5)
- "The Man Who Swallowed Mirrors", Jay Lake & Scott William Carter (Full Unit Hookup #7)
- "The Flame", Tanith Lee (Book of Voices)
- "The Great Divorce", Kelly Link (One Story #59)
- "Young H Saved from Infamy", Carole Maso (Conjunctions #44)
- "The Heirs of Cenpa", Sandra McDonald (Lone Star Stories 4/05)
- "Horse Years", Will McIntosh (Fictitious Force #1)
- "Soft Apocalypse", Will McIntosh (Interzone 10/05)
- "Chance Traveler", Haruki Murakami (Harper's Magazine 7/05)
- "Jakob Wywialowski and the Angels", Audrey Niffenegger (Amazon.com)
- "An Examination into the Chinese Made Roman Toga", Ben Peek (Full Unit Hookup #7)
- "Winged Victory", Sarah Prineas (Lone Star Stories 2/05)
- "Me", Mike Resnick (I, Alien)
- "Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch", Rudy Rucker (Interzone 10/05)
- "Three Urban Folk Talks", Eric Schaller (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 7/05)
- "Flash Bison", David J. Schwartz (Rhapsoidia Winter 2005)
- "Sick Days", Heather Shaw (Fortean Bureau 6/05)
- "The Sign in the Window", Vandana Singh (Rabid Transit: Menagerie)
- "Running Years", Jessica Stong (Things That Are True 5/05)
- "Triceratops Summer", Michael Swanwick (Amazon.com)
- "The Emperor's Backscratcher", Anna Tambour (Infinity Plus 4/05)
- "Strange Incidents in Foreign Parts", Anna Tambour (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "Buddha's Fall", M. Thomas (Fortean Bureau 6/05)
- "The Psalm of the Second Body", Catherynne M. Valente (Book of Voices)
- "The Euonymist", Neil Williamson (Electric Velocipede #9)
- "The Harps of the Titans", Sharon E. Woods (Fictitious Force #1)
Last updated: Mon Jan 23 11:25:34 2006 US/Eastern