SF in the New Yorker
May 13, 2009 (10:40 PM) ( link )

I don't know if this is a trend, but there have been a surprising number of short stories in recent New Yorkers that are of the speculative variety: Gail Hareven's "The Slows," Chris Adrian's "A Tiny Feast," Italo Calvino's "The Daughters of the Moon," and Steven Millhauser's "The Invasion from Outer Space."

None of the stories have been particularly good, either as speculative fiction or as fiction generally. (It turns out that a "quotidian, plotless, moment-of-truth revelatory story" is just as uninteresting with aliens or fairies.) But their publication represents, I think, yet another sign of the growing respect being afforded to my favorite genre.