And then one day, it’s October.
I don’t know how this has happened, but September is over. It wasn’t a super-eventful month, but it also wasn’t too terrible as far as these things go. I read some stories, read some books, watched some movies, and listened to some (not much, actually almost none) music.
I read 39 short stories in September. And I liked a bunch of them:
- “Scent” by Maria Haskins (Flash Fiction Online)
- “Prophet to the Dogs” by Bethany Edwards (Escape Pod)
- “See the Unseeable, Know the Unknowable” by Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed)
- “Talking to Dead People” by Sarah Pinsker (F&SF)
- “The Voice in the Cornfield, the Word Made Flesh” by Desirina Boskovich (F&SF)
- “Rooms Formed of Neurons and Sex” by Ferrett Steinmetz (Uncanny)
- “The Old Man and the Phoenix” by Alexandria Baisden (Apex)
- “The Warrior Boy Who Would Not Suffer” by Abhinav Bhat (Apex)
- “Houston, Houston, Do You Read James Tiptree” by Rachael K. Jones (Nature)
- “Delta Child” by Malon Edwards (Fireside Fiction)
- “Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left” by Fran Wilde (Shimmer)
- “The Flight of a Village in the Midst of War” by Daniel Ausema (Daily Science Fiction)
- “The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight” by E. Lily Yu (Uncanny)
- “Your Body by Default” by Alexis A. Hunter (Fireside Fiction)
- “Lucite” by Susan Palwick (Asimov’s)
- “The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles” by Rachael K. Jones (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- “The Invisible Stars” by Ryan Row (Shimmer)
- “La Héron” by Charlotte Ashley (reprinted at Podcastle)
- “My Mother’s Death — A Sonnet” by John Guzlowski (reprinted at Fantastic Fiction Online)
- “Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu (reprinted in Sorry Please Thank You)
In September, I read two books: Stay Crazy by Erica L. Satifka and Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente. I thought the former was an impressive debut novel and the latter, while not the best thing I’ve read by Valente, is full of a lot of playful and poetic writing.
I watched ten movies in September:
- Dope
So I really enjoyed Dope.
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 3, 2016
- Straight Outta Compton
Straight Outta Compton is quite good. Its biggest strength is its cast.
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 4, 2016
- Catwoman
Why is this movie? #Catwoman
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 4, 2016
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
I guess The Man Who Fell to Earth is a movie, right? It has a vaguely movie-like feel to it.
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 5, 2016
- Star Trek Beyond
I spent a lot of time wishing Star Trek Beyond was better. But, to its credit, it's maybe the first of the reboots to BE a Star Trek movie.
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 5, 2016
- San Andreas
I'm watching San Andreas, which I will presumably later say seemed like a good idea at the time.
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 10, 2016
- Anomalisa
Anomalisa is a beautifully strange movie.
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 11, 2016
- F for Fake
Yeah, F for Fake has some interesting touches, and I suppose interest as an historical object, but it's not a particularly good movie.
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 16, 2016
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The answer to my initial question is: nah, not really. https://t.co/kSaDByd3Oe
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 25, 2016
- Arq
Arq was a surprisingly clever, tense little no-budget time travel movie.
— Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) September 25, 2016