Sci-Fi Snacks

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This week's story: How It Feels to Be Swallowed by a Black Hole by Gretchen Tessmer Reprinted in Small Wonders Magazine

First published in Nature: Futures, 2018, by Springer Nature..

This week's snack: Spaghetti Pretzels

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Next Week's Story: Didn't Earn It

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This week's story: Dix Dayton and the Miner from Mars, by Liz A. Vogel Published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact January/February 2022

This week's snack: Dee's Nuts Dill Pickle Peanuts

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Next Week's Story: How It Feels to Be Swallowed by a Black Hole

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This week's story: Fuck Them Kids, by Tatiana Obey. Published in FIYAH Issue 32 Spacefaring Aunties Fall 2024 

This week's snack: Sour Patch Kids

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Next Week's Story: Dix Dayton and the Miner from Mars

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This week's story: With Her Serpent Locks, by Mary Robinette Kowal. Published in Uncanny Magazine 

This week's snack: Twin Snakes Gummies

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Next Week's Story: Fuck Them Kids

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This week's story: On the Night Shift, by Zohar Jacobs. Published in Asivmov's Science Fiction March/April 2025

Relevant Story Details (Awards, ETC)

This week's snack: Skittles

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Next Week's Story: With Her Serpent Locks

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This week's story: Curlews by Cecilia Ananías Soto. Published in Strange Horizons

This story is one of five winners of the Stop Copaganda short story contest, run in collaboration with Fight for the Future, Rightscon, and COMPOST Magazine.

This week's snack: Deviled Eggs (enjoy this reddit thread of all the variations you can try!)

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Next Week's Story: On the Night Shift

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This week's story: Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station by Ann LeBlanc Published originally in Mermaids Monthly. This cyber-mermaid time-loop story, was also selected for WE’RE HERE: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2021

This week's snack: Grocery Store Single Serving Mini Pie

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Next Week's Story: Curlews

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This week's story: My Mother's Daughter, by C. M. Lockhart . Published in FIYAH #32 Spacefaring Aunties 

This week's snack: Hermit Bars (this is not my exact recipe, which I am guarding as a family secret, but it will get you close if you don't add the walnuts.)

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Next Week's Story: Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station

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This week's story: Five Views of the Planet Tartarus, by Rachael K. Jones Published in Lightspeed Magazine

Nominations: Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Hugo Award for Best Short Story

This week's snack: Junior Mints

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Next Week's Story: My Mother's Daughter

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This week's story: Why Don't We Just K*ll the Kid in the Omelas Hole, by Isabel J. Kim. Published in Clarksworld Issue 209

Winner: 2024 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction

Winner: 2024 Nebula Award for Best Short Story

Winner: 2025 Locus Award for Best Short Story

2025 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Short Story

2025 Finalist: Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award

"Required" pre-reading: Those Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin

This week's snack: Krispy Kreme Donut Dots

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Next Week's Story: Five Views of the Planet Tartarus

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