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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

Collections!

Collections!

For some reason, most of us are mainly novel readers. I have every intention to read this or that short story collection I hear about, but I keep pushing them back to the "oh yeah, one day I'll read them, absolutely, no doubt"-land.

This challenge should bring that "one day" a bit closer, but not too quickly--there's time until the end of 2017.

Anybody with similar issues is welcome to join me!

Only collections by the same author are eligible, so no anthologies, and no separate short stories or novellas (they already have their own challenges), but rereads are okay.

Don't worry about the reviews: just tell us what your favourite story (or three) was in the collection!

Challenge Details
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Challenge Span: July 2016 – December 2017

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Novice = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Apprentice = 6 books + 2 reviews
 Journeyman = 9 books + 3 reviews
 Master = 12 books + 6 reviews

This challenge has expired. Please have a look at some of our other challenges for something that may interest you.

Arrenby

Arrenby

Arcanum Unbounded:  The Cosmere Collection
Conservation of Shadows
Dreams of Distant Shores
A Feast of Sorrows:  Stories
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Refrigerator Monologues
Sourdough and Other Stories
Stories of the Raksura, Volume One
Stories of the Raksura, Volume Two
asbailey

asbailey

The Best of C. L. Moore
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
The Martian Way and Other Stories
Badseedgirl

Badseedgirl

20th Century Ghosts
Kitty's Greatest Hits
Pump Six and Other Stories
Bormgans

Bormgans

Armageddon in Retrospect
Bone Swans:  Stories
The Ladies of Grace Adieu:  And Other Stories
dalex

dalex

At the Edge of Waking
The Dark Dark:  Stories
Daydreams of Angels: Stories
Some Possible Solutions
Suspended Heart
The Unfinished World and Other Stories
daxxh

daxxh

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Burning Chrome
Deep Navigation
Different Seasons
Four Past Midnight
Full Dark, No Stars
Gypsy
Just After Sunset
Points of Departure
Pump Six and Other Stories
Tales From High Hallack - The Collected Short Stories of Andre Norton, Volume: 1
Tales of the Quintana Roo
DrNefario

DrNefario

Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories
The Best of Hal Clement
Cyberabad Days
Futureland:  Nine Stories of an Imminent World
Galactic North
Grazing the Long Acre
Limits
Manhattan in Reverse
Sharp Ends
Stories of Your Life and Others
The Sword of Destiny
The Very Best of Charles de Lint
Engelbrecht

Engelbrecht

The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson
The Best of Nancy Kress
Beyond the Aquila Rift:  The Best of Alastair Reynolds
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories
Boy in Darkness and Other Stories
Dead on the Bones
A Feast of Sorrows:  Stories
Mammoths of the Great Plains
A Natural History of Hell
Not So Much Said the Cat
The Peculiar Exploits of Brigadier Ffellowes
A Wild Swan
gallyangel

gallyangel

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
Chronopolis and Other Stories
The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
The Golden Helix
Goth:  A Novel of Horror
Last Orders
Lost Girls
Trigger Warning:  Short Fictions and Disturbances
Vermilion Sands
The View from the Cheap Seats:  Selected Nonfiction
1
juliael71

juliael71

Secret Lives of Books
2
1
km098

km098

3
2
1
mjmahoney

mjmahoney

The Compass Rose
Miniatures:  The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection
Word Puppets
2
1
morpheus

morpheus

Bloodchild and Other Stories
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
The Illustrated Man
Looking for Jake: Stories
Night Shift
Stories of Your Life and Others
piibald

piibald

Bone Swans:  Stories
The Book of Sand
Dreams of Distant Shores
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
The Illustrated Man
The Inheritance and Other Stories
Jagannath: Stories
The Line Between
Sharp Ends
Tales of Moonlight and Rain
Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis
Trigger Warning:  Short Fictions and Disturbances
pizzakarin

pizzakarin

Collected Fictions
The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
Falling in Love with Hominids
Stories of Your Life and Others
Virtual Unrealities:  The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
1
Rhondak101

Rhondak101

Above Ker-Is and Other Stories
Aylmer Vance:  Ghost-Seer
Bone Swans:  Stories
The Casebook of Newbury and Hobbes
The Explorer and Other Stories
Jagannath: Stories
Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction
No. 472 Cheyne Walk:  Carnacki, The Untold Stories
The Otherling and Other Stories
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories
1
Sable Aradia

Sable Aradia

Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection
Star Songs of an Old Primate
Wizards' Worlds
ScoLgo

ScoLgo

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Starshine
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Scott Laz

Scott Laz

The Ghost of a Model T:  And Other Stories
Golden Girl and Other Stories
Grotto of the Dancing Deer:  And Other Stories
The Man with the Speckled Eyes:  The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Four
Men Without Women
The Moon Moth and Other Stories
The Persistence of Vision (collection)
2
1
seattleotaku

seattleotaku

Bridging Infinity
The King in Yellow
Nebula Awards Showcase 2016
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
teenidle

teenidle

Labyrinths
Looking for Jake: Stories
Stories of Your Life and Others
thereddeath

thereddeath

3
2
1
wecowo

wecowo

The Bloody Chamber
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Weesam

Weesam

Crackpot Palace
Dreams of Distant Shores
The Elephant Vanishes
Ghost Summer: Stories
Last Plane to Heaven:  The Final Collection
Prophecies, Libels, and Dreams:  Stories
R is for Rocket
Shoggoths in Bloom (collection)
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
The Wandering Earth:  Classic Science Fiction Collection
Young Woman in a Garden