Science fiction moved from an eddy of gothic fiction, through Victorian futurism serials, into the world of pulp fiction. When science fiction stories hit the pulp world, its primary form moved from novels to short stories. And it has been so ever since. One of the few remaining markets for short stories the anyone other than writers ever read are science fiction magazines. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer have been at the forefront of science fiction short stories for quite some time, and their Big Book of Science Ficiton charts the course of science fiction short stories from its deep history to its contemporary excellence. Here’s more from The Verge:
The Vandermeers catalog the ups and downs of the genre’s history in broad strokes in their introduction, taking readers through the various modern movements, efforts to include more women and authors of color, and the growing international movements that told the same stories. They note that in the three years that they worked on the project, they read though thousands of stories from across the genre’s history, and in doing so, essentially come to the conclusion that the simplest and most foolproof definition of the genre is that it’s any story that deals with the events of the future, whether that’s five minutes or a thousand years.
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