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“What’ll we do once we run out of food?” Sachii was using the bones to make a sort of caveman house. It was her way of killing time.

“I’ll just have to eat you.”

“So I’m just so cute you want to eat me up?”

Dark Seiyu

>The Great Seiyuu Age—there was a period in time that earned itself that name. Seiyuu became the stars of the day, the hopes of humanity—all envied their laryngeal sacs
>...
>The history of seiyuu was a long one. One theory placed the origins 500,000 years ago, as early as the birth of homo sapiens. That being said, seiyuu of the past were natural...did not have laryngeal sacs displayed outside

> First, all national systems were converted to mobile games. Medical insurance and pension payouts were redistributed via gacha pulls. The constitution’s protections for human rights were interpreted to mean a minimum guaranteed number of gacha pulls. A healthy life with the acceptable minimal cultural value was considered one in which you could login to a mobile game daily.

Tldr: evolution girls is weird. 10/10.

> First, all national systems were converted to mobile games. Medical insurance and pension payouts were redistributed via gacha pulls. The constitution’s protections for human rights were interpreted to mean a minimum guaranteed number of gacha pulls. A healthy life with the acceptable minimal cultural value was considered one in which you could login to a mobile game daily.

Tldr: evolution girls is weird. 10/10.

Well? Go forth and be idolized. You’re already shining bright!

"There was only one group of humans engaged in any sort of organized activity. These women called themselves the Vigilantes. They were die-hard anti-technologists and traditionalists. Vowing to take back the Akihabara of yore, they all wore T-shirts featuring moe characters of a bygone age. These were their traditional iconography."

"Charged" by Leanna Renee HIeber. I think I've found my new favorite story so far in this collection, and another author to stalk for my TBR list. I'd love to see more like this.

Kaaron Warren's "The Unwanted Women of Surrey" is great. I can now say I've quite enjoyed reading a story about a group of women starting an epidemic simply to kill people.

James P. Blaylock's Smithfield is quite good. I'm interested in seeing a longer story exploring the idea of a photograph of the past that shows further past times as it develops.

I'm even more interested in the idea of using CFLs for exorcisms, which he brought up in his afterword.

Elizabeth Bear's 'The Governess' is also great. How is it that so many people dislike the stories in this book? The only problem I've got so far is the same problem I have with every other short story--the stories are too short.

Elizabeth Wein's "For The Briar Rose" is also quite good. This is turning out to be one of the best books I've read in quite a while--not terribly surprising, considering I've been reading unpublished amateur works and translated webnovels lately, but I'm still finding it quite good. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling are amazing at finding good authors/stories.

La Reine d'Enfer, by Kathe Koja. Amazing.

The Memory Book, by Maureen McHugh: definitely a good story. Similar to Queen Victoria's Book of Spells in that the searched for 'happy ending' of forced love didn't turn out to be so happy, but different in that it wasn't regretted. I find it interesting that Laura Anne doesn't seem to have learned anything here, and wonder what happens next.

Titular story Queen Victoria's Book of Spells was quite good (not that I eexpected any less of Delia Sherman), definitely a 4-5, and my favorite so far. I'd like to see more of the idea of magical codes in text.
Jeffrey Ford's The Fairy Enterprise was also quite good, though the ending was a bit of a surprise.
From The Catalogue... by Genevieve Valentine was interesting, if not my usual preferred type of story.

Any fantasy recommendations for world-building on the level of Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series or Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials?