Storyological 2.09 - STORY WITH A HOLE

In which we discuss,

1. "He—y Come On Out!" by Shinichi Hoshi, The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories, 1989. (orig. F&SF, 1978).

2. "Bring Your Own Spoon" by Saad Hossain, The Djinn Falls in Love, and Other Stories, 2017.

along with, among other things...

Shinichi Hoshi

• The Hoshi Library
• The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
• Obituary in The Independent

Saad Hossain

• The Djinn Falls in Love, and Other Stories
• Interview with Bookslut
• “‘Escape from Baghdad’ is the ‘Slaughterhouse Five of the Iraq War”

Stories with a hole

• Pandora’s box
• Doctor Who’s crack in the wall
• Bag of holding
• That one episode of Angel, “Hole in the World”

A nonchalant sort of tone

• Kij Johnson, Storyological here in Episode 1.24: IT'S NOT ABOUT ZEB.
• Haruki Murakami, "An Everyman for our Times."
• Judy Budnitz, discussed on Storyological here in Episode 1.21: THE BOURNE LAMPSHADE.
• Kelly Link, discussed on Storyological here in Episode 1.15: FOR A MINUTE THERE.

Other bits of Storyological Past

• That one episode where we discussed “Pockets” by Amal El-Mohtar, Episode 1.06: LATER EVERYTHING
• That one interview we did with Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Japanese Folk Tales

• Such as these

Also

• Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man
• Ted Chiang, “Tower of Babylon”
• The Bystander Effect

Also. Also.

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