What are you reading in 2026?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As someone who enjoys, and has at times preferred, shorter fiction, I am always saddened when I think how the market for it has contracted (collapsed? imploded?) even just in my lifetime.

I enjoy short stories or novellas on the Kindle, but I'm not sure how much of a market there is for those. I typically see only big name authors doing that.

I do know that the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is around, and they're the 800 pound gorilla of shorter fantasy and sci-fi. Last I looked, they were basically publishing a small trade paperback, with nice cheap paper, every month, with some of the best stories ever, pretty consistently.

 

[cbwjm]

I enjoy short stories or novellas on the Kindle, but I'm not sure how much of a market there is for those. I typically see only big name authors doing that.

I do know that the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is around, and they're the 800 pound gorilla of shorter fantasy and sci-fi. Last I looked, they were basically publishing a small trade paperback, with nice cheap paper, every month, with some of the best stories ever, pretty consistently.

Sometimes I wish we still had the large selection of tales magazines of the 1930s to showcase smaller stories.

 

[overgeeked]

I enjoy short stories or novellas on the Kindle, but I'm not sure how much of a market there is for those. I typically see only big name authors doing that.

I do know that the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is around, and they're the 800 pound gorilla of shorter fantasy and sci-fi. Last I looked, they were basically publishing a small trade paperback, with nice cheap paper, every month, with some of the best stories ever, pretty consistently.

Sometimes I wish we still had the large selection of tales magazines of the 1930s to showcase smaller stories.

I'm continuously amazed that short fiction hasn't had a boom with the rise of ebooks and ereaders.

 

[Autumnal]

It has, particularly novellas. Amazon’s program of sets of 5-7 short stories as anthologies exists and flourishes, for example. Tor.com releases make good money as well as winning a lot of awards; similarly for other genres I know less about.