Worlds by D. Kershaw

Worlds Reviews

• 
  Jefferson Retallack

  I'm a contributing author, so please consider this a review of the works besides my own.
  
  I read this back to back and found every story worth the read, but the highlights for me were:
  
  Single Colonists Wanted by
  Becky Benishek.
  
  Cloneliness by
  Lynne Lumsden Green.
  
  News from Earth by Joel R. Hunt.
  
  The Distance Between Heavenly Bodies by
  Austin P. Sheehan.
  
  And in the Mind, Darkness by Aiki Flinhart.
  
  Blue Brain by Emily Fluckiher.
  
  How the Wood-Devouring Archaeologist Regained a Normal Appetite After His Afflicted Mars. Research Expedition by
  J.J. Steinfeld*** My favourite tale and my favourite title in one.
  
  Imigration Application: Earth from Phoebus 3 (Havenos) - Statement of Reason for Request by
  T.L. Barrett.
  
  Paradise by
  Crystal L. Kirkham.
  
  Frank's Baby by
  Rich Rurshell*** The funniest story in the book.
  
  Sentinel Species by
  Graham Robert Scott.
  
  Ones and Zeroes by
  Raven Corinn Carluk*** Requires a little bit of work for the pay off, but totally worth it.
• 
  Stephen Herczeg

  AUTHOR REVIEW
  A great little collection of tiny tales, all aimed at the Sci-Fi genre under a collective theme of "WORLDS".
  I am a contributing author of five tales, but I found that my work was in wonderful company.
  This is an Australian produced collection with a wide ranging source of authors, from as far flung as the USA, UK, India and Pakistan.
  The stories themselves are just as disparate. Some are simple, some could become novels.
  There is humour, terror, darkness and light.
  
  The biggest warning I would give though is, a collection of drabbles is a series of sprints not a marathon. Even five minutes of reading leaves your mind reeling at the world building, the ideas, the number of stories built in your brain and ended a hundred words.
  Take your time. Absorb and digest each story on its merits. Then move on. You will be much better for the experience.
• 
  Wondra Vanian

  The 300ish stories in Worlds exhibit different levels of author ability, experience, style, and vision. Some of the stories are creepy, some are heartbreaking, and some are just plain unnerving. Some are even laugh out loud funny (though that might say more about my sick sense of humor than the anthology...)
• 
  Neen Cohen

  Fun little bite sized stories. I loved being able to pick it up and take sips of little worlds from brilliant imaginations.
• 
  Andrew

  I must state from the outset that I am the author of two stories within this anthology, but my 5-star review is of the project as whole. It's an epic start for Black Hare Press in publishing all these "drabbles", giving a fresh platform to new and established writers and with more than 6 further microfiction anthologies/longer themed anthologies to come this year and next.
  
  My own two stories actually make up a very small percentage of the overall content. There are 250 microfiction sci-fi stories here, and the themes range from space battles, colonisation, aliens, androids, cloning and exploration to name a few.
  
  There were so many incredible pieces of only 100 words each - my absolute favourites which stood out (mainly for doing something a bit different from what you'd expect with the genre) were:
  
  Hard Sell by Liam Hogan
  Single Colonists Wanted by Becky Benishek
  Atomic Soup by D.M. Burdett
  Immigration by Alanah Andrews
  Destination: Earth by E.L. Giles
  Bountiful Harvest by John H. Dromey
  Mara’s Time by Joe Buckley
  Second Chance by Eddie D. Moore
  The Abduction by Blair Daniels
  No Guarantee by Dawn DeBraaal
  Midday by D.M. Burdett
  
  There were so many more but I returned to these ones again and again. Fantastic read.
• 
  R.A. Goli

  *Disclaimer: I have a drabble in this anthology*
  Stories of colonisation, new worlds, alien creatures and more fill the pages of this anthology. I really enjoyed it. Because stories are short, there's no hard sci-fi, so it's perfect even for those who don't read a lot of sci-fi. Stories were a lot more varied than the Angels anthology. Some favorites of mine are, Hive Mind by J. Farrington, Analysis: Flawed by Terry Miller, Valley of Penance by Jodi Jensen, I Know Who I Am by J.D. Bell, Communion by Jonathan Inbody, Octopiod by Pamela Jeffs, Modified by Vonnie Winslow Crist, and Me by Andrew Anderson, but there are far too many good ones to mention. It was a fun read.
• 
  Steven Streeter

  Drabbles are great - if you don't like one it'll be over in a blink. But this book has very few not to like.
  
  For my full review, please go to:
  
  https://www.weekendnotes.com/worlds-d...