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Uncanny Magazine #27
Uncanny Magazine, Issue 27, March/April 2019
The March/April 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Karen Osborne, Tina Connolly, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Marie Brennan, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and A.T. Greenblatt. Reprinted fiction by Aliette de Bodard, essays by Tracy Townsend, Briana Lawrence, Marissa Lingen, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Beth Cato, D.A. Xaolin Spires, Cassandra Khaw, Sandi Liebowitz, and Chloe N. Clark, interviews withBonnie Jo Stufflebeam and A.T. Greenblatt by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Christopher Jones, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Featuring new fiction by Karen Osborne, Tina Connolly, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Marie Brennan, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and A.T. Greenblatt. Reprinted fiction by Aliette de Bodard, essays by Tracy Townsend, Briana Lawrence, Marissa Lingen, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Beth Cato, D.A. Xaolin Spires, Cassandra Khaw, Sandi Liebowitz, and Chloe N. Clark, interviews withBonnie Jo Stufflebeam and A.T. Greenblatt by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Christopher Jones, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
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First published March 5, 2019
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Lynne M. Thomas
105 books223 followersIn my day job, I am the Head of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Rare Book and Manuscript Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the largest public university rare book collections in the country. I used to manage pop culture special collections that include the papers of over 70 SF/F authors at Northern Illinois University. I also teach a Special Collections course as an adjunct in the iSchool at Illinois, and used to do so at SJSU.
I'm an eleven-time Hugo Award winner, the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Uncanny Magazine with my husband Michael Damian Thomas. The former Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine (2011-2013), I co-edited the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords, Whedonistas, and Chicks Dig Comics. I moderated the Hugo-Award winning SF Squeecast and contribute to the Verity! Podcast. You can learn more about my shenanigans at lynnemthomas.com.
I'm an eleven-time Hugo Award winner, the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Uncanny Magazine with my husband Michael Damian Thomas. The former Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine (2011-2013), I co-edited the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords, Whedonistas, and Chicks Dig Comics. I moderated the Hugo-Award winning SF Squeecast and contribute to the Verity! Podcast. You can learn more about my shenanigans at lynnemthomas.com.
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September 3, 2020
This review is for the Nebula-nominated short story The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power by Karen Osborne:
A generation ship simply referred to as Home (or the Fee-nix) is on an endless track to Paradise - a distant planet that is mean to be their destination. The ship has a strict class system - the well-off and powerful in first and the second class and illiterate workers in steerage for whom work is supposed to be their religion. The way of life on the ship has obviously devolved to quite unpleasant space feudalist theocracy.
After a bomb at a captain’s funeral kills almost everyone in the attendance, two young girls are made to ascend to their new hereditary roles. Bethen, the new Captain, drinks from the Virtue cup, inheriting (via ingested nanobots, of course) the bright and confident memories of the previous hundred of the ship captains. Mey gets the other cup - the nanobots in which make her a sin-eater, depositing into her brain the worst, the most brutal and the most cruel of the memories of those same hundred of previous captains, meant to eventually drive her insane while the new captain gets to be all virtuous and glorious and benevolent. Mey’s purpose is to contain the sins to allow the glory of the captain’s virtue to lead the ship onwards.
Tormented by the insane voices in her head and shunned by her former companions in the steerage, Mey makes an unexpected and terrifying discovery that can upend all the life on the ship — the discovery of evil and betrayal fueled by ambition and lust for power.
It’s not an easy story to read. It’s choppy and disorienting, and does not shy away from the unpleasant. It’s frustrating — but it pays off in the end, and perhaps as a compensation for the confused frustration the ending delivers a very hopeful note.
The devolution of the life on a generation ship and deliberately falling back into the Dark Ages is a fascinating concept to explore (and I’m definitely a sucker for it).
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A very different take on the same theme was done by Aldiss in Non-Stop. And if you like weird and somewhat gross parts too, then Hurley’s The Stars Are Legion may just do. A good (but very very long) novel about a generation ship that eventually has issues would be Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. And the best one in my opinion, short but brilliant generation spaceship novella is “Paradises Lost” by Le Guin, found in the collections The Birthday of the World and Other Stories and The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin.
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4-ish stars.
Read it here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...
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My Hugo and Nebula Awards Reading Project 2020: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
“My destiny was always this: to drink the sin-cup and to hold the sins of the captains in my body where they cannot harm our people on their journey to Paradise.“
A generation ship simply referred to as Home (or the Fee-nix) is on an endless track to Paradise - a distant planet that is mean to be their destination. The ship has a strict class system - the well-off and powerful in first and the second class and illiterate workers in steerage for whom work is supposed to be their religion. The way of life on the ship has obviously devolved to quite unpleasant space feudalist theocracy.
After a bomb at a captain’s funeral kills almost everyone in the attendance, two young girls are made to ascend to their new hereditary roles. Bethen, the new Captain, drinks from the Virtue cup, inheriting (via ingested nanobots, of course) the bright and confident memories of the previous hundred of the ship captains. Mey gets the other cup - the nanobots in which make her a sin-eater, depositing into her brain the worst, the most brutal and the most cruel of the memories of those same hundred of previous captains, meant to eventually drive her insane while the new captain gets to be all virtuous and glorious and benevolent. Mey’s purpose is to contain the sins to allow the glory of the captain’s virtue to lead the ship onwards.
“There has never been an uprising against the dazzling mercy of first class. Why would there be, when the captain of our ship sees only the truth of beautiful things?”
Tormented by the insane voices in her head and shunned by her former companions in the steerage, Mey makes an unexpected and terrifying discovery that can upend all the life on the ship — the discovery of evil and betrayal fueled by ambition and lust for power.
“This can’t be true,” she whispers. “The captains can’t lie. They can’t lie. They only know grace.”
“Knowing grace doesn’t make you incapable of doing evil,” I manage.
It’s not an easy story to read. It’s choppy and disorienting, and does not shy away from the unpleasant. It’s frustrating — but it pays off in the end, and perhaps as a compensation for the confused frustration the ending delivers a very hopeful note.
The devolution of the life on a generation ship and deliberately falling back into the Dark Ages is a fascinating concept to explore (and I’m definitely a sucker for it).
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A very different take on the same theme was done by Aldiss in Non-Stop. And if you like weird and somewhat gross parts too, then Hurley’s The Stars Are Legion may just do. A good (but very very long) novel about a generation ship that eventually has issues would be Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. And the best one in my opinion, short but brilliant generation spaceship novella is “Paradises Lost” by Le Guin, found in the collections The Birthday of the World and Other Stories and The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin.
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4-ish stars.
Read it here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...
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My Hugo and Nebula Awards Reading Project 2020: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
April 22, 2020
4.5 stars for the Nebula Award-nominated short story in this issue: “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne. It's free to read online here at Uncanny Magazine: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t... (At least for now this review is just for this one story.)
On a generation ship journeying through space toward a distant planet they call Paradise, a bomb explodes at the previous captain’s funeral, killing everyone in the room except a young girl, Mey. Mey is the only daughter of the captain’s “sin-eater,” who was also killed in the explosion. She’s forced to take on her father’s role as sin-eater, drinking from the sin-cup containing the nanobots that will circulate in her bloodstream for the rest of her life, filling her mind with the consciousnesses of all of the hundred-odd ship captains who have previously died during the ship’s journey.
It’s a terrible burden for Mey, since the captains’ memories that now fill her brain contain all of their worst deeds and thoughts. They can control her body to some extent and prevent her from telling others what she knows. At the same time, the new captain Bethen, the young daughter of the captain who recently died, drinks from the virtue-cup, which fills her with the all of the previous captains’ most virtuous and self-assured memories, so that she can “lead our generation ship with confidence, with a mind tuned to moral truth.” When Mey dredges up an old, deeply-held secret, she also needs to find a way to communicate it and convince others to take action.
The narrative of “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” is non-linear (for no particularly good reason as far as I could tell, other than making the plot more challenging to grasp) and somewhat opaque, so it may take some time to fully comprehend what’s going on. I certainly appreciated this story more on my second read. Osborne found an intriguing way to weave the ancient ritual of the sin-eater into a science fictional setting, along with themes of abuse of power and the divide between the privileged and those in steerage class on this generation ship.
On a generation ship journeying through space toward a distant planet they call Paradise, a bomb explodes at the previous captain’s funeral, killing everyone in the room except a young girl, Mey. Mey is the only daughter of the captain’s “sin-eater,” who was also killed in the explosion. She’s forced to take on her father’s role as sin-eater, drinking from the sin-cup containing the nanobots that will circulate in her bloodstream for the rest of her life, filling her mind with the consciousnesses of all of the hundred-odd ship captains who have previously died during the ship’s journey.
It’s a terrible burden for Mey, since the captains’ memories that now fill her brain contain all of their worst deeds and thoughts. They can control her body to some extent and prevent her from telling others what she knows. At the same time, the new captain Bethen, the young daughter of the captain who recently died, drinks from the virtue-cup, which fills her with the all of the previous captains’ most virtuous and self-assured memories, so that she can “lead our generation ship with confidence, with a mind tuned to moral truth.” When Mey dredges up an old, deeply-held secret, she also needs to find a way to communicate it and convince others to take action.
The narrative of “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” is non-linear (for no particularly good reason as far as I could tell, other than making the plot more challenging to grasp) and somewhat opaque, so it may take some time to fully comprehend what’s going on. I certainly appreciated this story more on my second read. Osborne found an intriguing way to weave the ancient ritual of the sin-eater into a science fictional setting, along with themes of abuse of power and the divide between the privileged and those in steerage class on this generation ship.
May 31, 2020
***The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power by Karen Osborne***
A story of sin-eaters on a generation ship. The narrator is one of those people as well, who have to absolve the ship's captains of their sins, so that they can focus on their ultimate goal, to get the ship and its occupants to Paradise.
I never quite managed to immerse myself in that story. I mean, I understood the words, and perhaps their meaning too. Suppose this is about how we deal with power, about finding some sort of common ground, and not repeating the mistakes of our ancestors. But, yeah, it didn't really work for me.
Alas. 2 stars, mainly because of the nice ending.
You can read it for yourself here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...
Or listen to the Uncanny Magazine Podcast #27A. The story starts at 14 minutes and 10 seconds and runs for roughly 37 minutes.
Nebula 2019 finalist for Best Short Story.
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Best Novel
• Marque of Caine by Charles E. Gannon
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
Best Novella
• Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang ( Exhalation)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
• Catfish Lullaby by A.C. Wise
Best Novelette
• A Strange Uncertain Light by G.V. Anderson ( The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2019)
• For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll
• His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light by Mimi Mondal
• The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye by Sarah Pinsker ( Uncanny Magazine Issue 29: July/August 2019)
• Carpe Glitter by Cat Rambo
• The Archronology of Love by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2019)
Best Short Story
• Give the Family My Love by A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149, February 2019)
• The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power by Karen Osborne (Uncanny Magazine Issue 27: March/April 2019)
• And Now His Lordship Is Laughing by Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9 September 2019)
• Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, Issue 80)
• A Catalog of Storms by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 26, January-February 2019)
• How the Trick Is Done by A.C. Wise (Uncanny Magazine Issue 29: July/August 2019)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
• Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
• Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
• Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions by Henry Lien
• Cog by Greg van Eekhout
• Riverland by Fran Wilde
A story of sin-eaters on a generation ship. The narrator is one of those people as well, who have to absolve the ship's captains of their sins, so that they can focus on their ultimate goal, to get the ship and its occupants to Paradise.
I never quite managed to immerse myself in that story. I mean, I understood the words, and perhaps their meaning too. Suppose this is about how we deal with power, about finding some sort of common ground, and not repeating the mistakes of our ancestors. But, yeah, it didn't really work for me.
Alas. 2 stars, mainly because of the nice ending.
You can read it for yourself here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...
Or listen to the Uncanny Magazine Podcast #27A. The story starts at 14 minutes and 10 seconds and runs for roughly 37 minutes.
Nebula 2019 finalist for Best Short Story.
_________________
2019 Nebula Award Finalists
Best Novel
• Marque of Caine by Charles E. Gannon
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
Best Novella
• Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang ( Exhalation)
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes
• Catfish Lullaby by A.C. Wise
Best Novelette
• A Strange Uncertain Light by G.V. Anderson ( The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2019)
• For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll
• His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light by Mimi Mondal
• The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye by Sarah Pinsker ( Uncanny Magazine Issue 29: July/August 2019)
• Carpe Glitter by Cat Rambo
• The Archronology of Love by Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2019)
Best Short Story
• Give the Family My Love by A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149, February 2019)
• The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power by Karen Osborne (Uncanny Magazine Issue 27: March/April 2019)
• And Now His Lordship Is Laughing by Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9 September 2019)
• Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, Issue 80)
• A Catalog of Storms by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 26, January-February 2019)
• How the Trick Is Done by A.C. Wise (Uncanny Magazine Issue 29: July/August 2019)
Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
• Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
• Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
• Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions by Henry Lien
• Cog by Greg van Eekhout
• Riverland by Fran Wilde
May 1, 2020
Review for Childhood Memory from the Old Victorian House on Warner BY BETH CATO, ★★★★☆, May 2020
SF poetry is still something new for me. A learning process. Right now that means: do I grasp what is going on and does it generate an internal picture or movie in my head. This one did. I saw the room, the wallpaper, the butterfly trying to escape and I felt the horror of the narrator, wanting another room.... am I too simple?
Can be read for free here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/c...
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Review for Taho by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ★★★☆☆, June 2019
Poetry. I am woefully under equipped to unterstand it well. Not something I read often. I landed with this story through a bad link and thought... why not?
So, I had to look up stuff....
Kundiman is a genre of traditional Filipino love songs. And Sylvia La Torre is known as the Queen of Kundiman. Listen here: https://youtu.be/qtodF2RV_JU
Arnibal is caramelized brown sugar syrup. Filipino again, I think.
Other than that I have no idea. A bot drives across a Martian landscape with two buckets of food and listens to Filipino love songs... I am stumped.
Did I like it? Well, yes, after the first confusing few lines... Did I understand it? The words, yes. I learned stuff. The meaning, not so much.
Can be read for free here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...
SF poetry is still something new for me. A learning process. Right now that means: do I grasp what is going on and does it generate an internal picture or movie in my head. This one did. I saw the room, the wallpaper, the butterfly trying to escape and I felt the horror of the narrator, wanting another room.... am I too simple?
Can be read for free here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/c...
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Review for Taho by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ★★★☆☆, June 2019
Poetry. I am woefully under equipped to unterstand it well. Not something I read often. I landed with this story through a bad link and thought... why not?
So, I had to look up stuff....
Kundiman is a genre of traditional Filipino love songs. And Sylvia La Torre is known as the Queen of Kundiman. Listen here: https://youtu.be/qtodF2RV_JU
Arnibal is caramelized brown sugar syrup. Filipino again, I think.
Other than that I have no idea. A bot drives across a Martian landscape with two buckets of food and listens to Filipino love songs... I am stumped.
Did I like it? Well, yes, after the first confusing few lines... Did I understand it? The words, yes. I learned stuff. The meaning, not so much.
Can be read for free here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...
February 23, 2020
Ratings and reviews for two stories:
1) AT Greenblatt's Before the World Crumbles Away. Alright, this is the author's third story I read and gonna be my last. Boring.
2) Karen Osborne's Nebula nominated story, The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power. It is weird, disorienting, unpleasant to read with zero feel of accomplishment at the end. I still don't know why a generation ship needed sin eaters. Not my jam.
1) AT Greenblatt's Before the World Crumbles Away. Alright, this is the author's third story I read and gonna be my last. Boring.
2) Karen Osborne's Nebula nominated story, The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power. It is weird, disorienting, unpleasant to read with zero feel of accomplishment at the end. I still don't know why a generation ship needed sin eaters. Not my jam.
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September 20, 2021The poems in this are beautiful! I've read three so far and I recommend them all! The word play is just lovely.
'things you don’t say to city witches' by Cassandra Khaw. Read it here.
'Other Forms of Conjuring the Moon' by Chloe N. Clark. Read it here.
'Taho' by D.A. Xiaolin Spires. Read it here.
a city whose heartbeat I’m learning to carry
in a pocket left of a sound like the word home
'things you don’t say to city witches' by Cassandra Khaw. Read it here.
I never liked the trick
with the girl and the swords.
'Other Forms of Conjuring the Moon' by Chloe N. Clark. Read it here.
aromas of caramel arnibal mingle with
the tangy bite of auburn dust
'Taho' by D.A. Xiaolin Spires. Read it here.
March 21, 2019
A quite intense issue. Highlights were “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne, and the reprint “The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun”, by Aliette de Bodard. On the other hand, “Every Song Must End” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam was surprisingly bold, with its polyamorous relationships.
To be honest, every single story had something special, you just need to pick your own favorite!
To be honest, every single story had something special, you just need to pick your own favorite!
September 10, 2021
I only listened to On the Lonely Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia from this collection through the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. Best described as a Victorian Gothic with a fantasy twist at the end, the story builds slowly. Balthazar is an ailing young man sent to live seaside along with his companion Judith, as his family is strangely uninvolved. A romance develops between the two, although his health deteriorates and he seems to be dying, but Judith is more aware of his condition than he realizes. This atmospheric short story has a melancholy end, and its conclusion will leave you with questions.
October 26, 2019
I really liked this issue. I prefer short fiction with a lot of relationships and heavy on characters and I got that with this issue. The top 4 stories made up for the bottom 3 stories.
Ranked by how much I enjoyed them, stories in this issue were:
Before the World Crumbles Away by A.T. Greenblatt - Nomination worthy -4.5
Every Song Must End by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam - 4
Vis Delendi by Marie Brennan - 3
On the Lonely Shore by Silvia Moreno-Gracia - 3
The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun by Aliette de Bodard - reprint - 2
The Dead, in Their Uncontrollable Power by Karen Osborne -2
A Sharp Breath of Birds by Tina Connolly - 1
Ranked by how much I enjoyed them, stories in this issue were:
Before the World Crumbles Away by A.T. Greenblatt - Nomination worthy -4.5
Every Song Must End by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam - 4
Vis Delendi by Marie Brennan - 3
On the Lonely Shore by Silvia Moreno-Gracia - 3
The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun by Aliette de Bodard - reprint - 2
The Dead, in Their Uncontrollable Power by Karen Osborne -2
A Sharp Breath of Birds by Tina Connolly - 1
October 26, 2019
3.5 stars
Favorites were "On the Lonely Shore" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, "The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun" by Aliette de Bodard, and "Before the World Crumbles Away" by A.T. Greenblatt.
Favorites were "On the Lonely Shore" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, "The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun" by Aliette de Bodard, and "Before the World Crumbles Away" by A.T. Greenblatt.
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December 23, 2019Read “The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun” by Aliette de Bodard (3.5 stars)
https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...
https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...
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March 21, 2019Not a review. Includes my poem "Childhood Memory of the Old Victorian House on Warner."
September 2, 2023
For "A Sharp Breath of Birds" by Tina Connolly - dreamy, poetic.
May 6, 2020
I read 'The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power' because it's part of the Nebula Awards 2020 Short Story Shortlist. This was interesting, enticing, suspenseful, I loved the concept of the two types of nanos in the blood. The LGBT rep was a cherry on the top.i really enjoyed this! I wish there had been more!
May 29, 2020
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“The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne, 4.5
“The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne, 4.5
June 1, 2019
Highlights:
“Every Song Must End”
“Vīs Dēlendī”
“The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun”
“Courage to the Sticking Place: Connecting SF/F Students With Creators”
“That Never Happened: Misplaced Skepticism and the Mechanisms of Suspension of Disbelief”
“things you don’t say to city witches”
“Every Song Must End”
“Vīs Dēlendī”
“The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun”
“Courage to the Sticking Place: Connecting SF/F Students With Creators”
“That Never Happened: Misplaced Skepticism and the Mechanisms of Suspension of Disbelief”
“things you don’t say to city witches”
March 17, 2019
I have only read — and therefore my rating is based solely on — the Aliette de Bodard short story, 'The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun'.
January 30, 2020
Nice to read a collection that includes stories about polyamory, and disability (two separate stories).
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April 28, 2020Favorites:
Vīs Dēlendī (Marie Brennan)
Vīs Dēlendī (Marie Brennan)
Want to read
August 12, 2020LeVar Burton Reads Episode 73, Pockets by Amal El-Mohtar
August 27, 2023
On the lonely shore, by Sylvia Moreno Garcia.
Beautiful love story.
Beautiful love story.
May 31, 2019
I usually enjoy the author's short stories quite a bit and this was no exception. If you're a fan of Lovecraftian fiction, what's really happening is pretty easy to guess from the start, but I liked that they didn't focus on the horror aspect. I always enjoy a re-interpretation of Lovecraftian tropes, and this one was a bit reminiscent of Ruthanna Emrys sympathetic view of Mythos creatures. Some of them, at least!
Merged review:
Life's rough in this near-future story. Not because of aliens or evil robots or anything of the sort. Just the normal strain of climate change, pollution, and a bad economy. But hey, life goes on, don't it?
Merged review:
Life's rough in this near-future story. Not because of aliens or evil robots or anything of the sort. Just the normal strain of climate change, pollution, and a bad economy. But hey, life goes on, don't it?
August 16, 2019
I love hopeful sci-fi so I enjoyed this. I was a little hesitant about Marina's blindness being "cured" by the implants but the implants had limitations too so I wouldn't call it bad representation. Loved the little romance between Marina and Elodie but I feel like the story could've delved a little deeper.
Warning: Depression and suicide.
Warning: Depression and suicide.
May 3, 2019
A near-future, short story, spec fic piece, about two young women as they deal with climate change and a bad economy. I loved the bits with the board-game playing automaton, and the eye implants, as well as the love story between the two women.
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