The Game of Smash and Recovery

by Kelly Link

If there's one thing Anat knows, it's this. She loves Oscar her brother, and her brother Oscar loves her.

On an alien planet, a brother and sister play a special brand of hide-and-seek while they wait for their parents to return.

Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction, Space

ebook

Published January 1, 2015

About the author

Kelly Link is an American author best known for her short stories, which span a wide variety of genres - most notably magic realism, fantasy and horror. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

Her stories have been collected in four books - Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and most recently, Get in Trouble.
She has won several awards for her short stories, including the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for "The Specialist's Hat", and the Nebula Award both in 2001 and 2005 for "Louise's Ghost" and "Magic for Beginners".

Link also works as an editor, and is the founder of independant publishing company, Small Beer Press, along with her husband, Gavin Grant.

Reviews

[a k · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's the vampires for me.

[Kel Lee Liu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like Ancillary justice. Devastating. Love, familial intimacy vs duty, automation, profiteering

[Carol A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Huh??? Not sure what this story was …. I read it but I am not sure what I read.

Can’t recommend it. It was too odd.