Status Updates From The Year's Best Science Fic...

This re read is turning out better than I remembered

Sylgamo’s Proclamation. Took a bit of getting into but enjoyed it.

As women fight. Bleah!

Dragon’s Teeth. This collection is getting better and better!

Dragon’s Teeth. This collection is getting better and better!

Technicolor John Langdon. Wow. I don’t usually read horror so this one came as a surprise and it held me enthralled.

The Long Cold Goodbye Holly Phillips. Hated it at first. Almost abandoned it but read a bit about it and then started again and actually loved it. Weird.

The logic of the world Robert Kelly. A sort of lovely medieval fantasy. I’m getting the hang of these (perhaps).

The child empress of mars. Enjoyed.

The Radiant Car thy Sparrows Drew is wonderful on second read. SciFy short stories are so difficult! There is an overlay of steam punk, early cinema, air balloons, black and white film, plucky lady aviators and documentarians. And the poets. Sappho, Tennyson, Shelley and who ever I have missed. And the whales on Venus which are the subject of Bysse’s documentary and seem to be primordial mothers.

Mongoose is wonderful. Thanks to readers who recommended it.

The Radiant Car thy Sparrows Drew is the best title. I will need to read it again but it was intriguingly steam punk and weird. Title is from Sapphio which makes it even better but I notice some translations are not quite so punk.

Eros, Phillia, Agape Rachael Switzer. A story of a love between a robot and a woman, their adopted. Hold and the parrot who loved the woman before the robot arrived. The woman abandons the parrot, the robot abandons them two humans. I enjoyed it but it is sad.

This Peaceable Land Robert (something) Wilson. Alternative History. 1890 something, American South and there was no civil war but slavery sort of died out in a miserable way and a black, Canadian based man has employed a white photographer to take pictures of buildings left from the after effects of slavery. They find something memorable. Loved this.

Bespoke Genevieve Valentine. Loved this. Two women running a business making clothes for time travellers. No one time travels in the story. Just the daily ins and outs of a sideline of time travel. My sort of thing. There is a hint that the animal kingdom has been depleted, maybe because of the mistake made by a voyager (time traveller). Maybe this is what is most important but for me it was unnecessary.

The Island Peter Watts. This took me to the extremes of what I can manage. Sci-Fi can be so difficult! But it became quite exciting towards the end. But I had to accept a future form of human that is so different and a human existence that is so alien that I had trouble relating.