Voices on the Midnight Air

Neighbour Procedure by Rachel Zolf
Zong! by NourbeSe Phillips
Vis-à-Vis by Don McKay
City Treaty by Marvin Francis
Turbulence by Samit Basu
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories edited by Camille Alexa & Claude Lalumière
Cold Iron by Stina Leicht
Back, Belly and Side by Celeste Rita Baker
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

The first half of this month was given over to marking and course work; the second half was in Glasgow; but reading and writing happened all the same. Short fiction reading suffered, though.

Books:

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace (Lightspeed column, June)
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (Lightspeed column, June)
Scruffians! by Hal Duncan (Lightspeed column, June)
Ms. Marvel vol. 1 by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
Lazarus vol. 3 by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
Chew vol. 9 by John Layman and Rob Guillory
Princeless vol. 1 by Jeremy Whitley and M. Goodwin
Revision by Andrea Phillips (forthcoming on NPR)
Superfolks by Robert Mayer
Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli (re-read post-Netflix)

Notable Short Fiction:

Sigh.

A stupendous amount of last-minute reading of novellas and novelettes for award nomination happened this month, but I'm not counting them because mostly the point of listing the short fiction is to help me around award season again next year, so I want to only list what's eligible and what I've enjoyed.

Books:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation by George Copway
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Touch by Claire North
Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
Selections from E Pauline Johnson's The Moccasin Maker: "A Red Girl's Reasoning" and "As it Was in the Beginning"

Notable Short Fiction:

"Tiger Baby" by JY Yang (short story) (review)
"Hoywverch" by Heather Rose Jones (short story) (audio only)
"The Girl Who Ate Butterflies" by Mary Rickert (short story)
"Translatio Corporis" by Kat Howard (short story)
"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" by Brooke Bolander (novelette) (review)