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An Incomplete List of the Works of Sofia Samatar
my aesthetic is somewhere between "fiction with a works cited page" and "academic article with too much personal information"
— Sofia Samatar (@SofiaSamatar) February 29, 2016
So you've just finished the award winning Stranger in Olondria or the recently released Winged Histories and are staring at the last page in sheer awe of the brilliance of this author.
What do you do now that you have finally managed to pick up your jaw? Where do you get your next hit?
You are in luck! While Samatar's novel count is only two, her body of work also includes short fiction, poetry and essays.
Here is a partial list of shorter pieces you can read right now:
- Selkie Stories Are For Losers at Strange Horizons (2013). If you prefer audio, here is the Escape Pod version.
- How to Get Back to the Forest at Lightspeed (2014) includes both text and link to audio.
- Walkdog from the excellent Kaleidoscope anthology (2014).
- Tender at OmniVerse (2015).
- The essay Skin Feeling at The New Inquiry (2015).
- The Closest Thing To Animals at Fireside Fiction (2015).
- And from this year, the poem Notes Towards a Theory of Quantum Blackness at Strange Horizons.
Don't worry, that is far from all. Her website has a complete list of her works. There are no wrong answers to what to read next.
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