Thia Reads A Lot’s Reviews > Uncanny Magazine Issue 61: November/December 2024 > Status Update

Romantasy All Along! Good explanation about Romantasy, drops quite a few (older) titles too. The genre is not for me though.

Can't We All Just Get Along? Them: The Scare Uses Afro-Surrealism to Produce Effective Scares About a TV series I haven't watch and am not interested in.

Longlegs, Long Held Memories: Essay about an horror movie I haven't seen/am not interested in seeing.

The Breathtaking Condescension Tango: good essay on Fan Fiction

We Tried Beating Time to Death: I think I like this one, but the form is not something I understand

Operetta: not getting this one

The Geckomancer's Lament: 3* A gecko, a centaur, Oberon king of the fay and a nyanga are travelling together to kill someone who wronged them all. Unclear if the gecko is actually a member of the group or just imagining they are, since they don't seem to ear them. The gecko eats them at the end, thinking it will be able to bring them back to life once they are a full necromancer. A bit weird.

Ancestor Heart: 3* Malik inherits his great-grandfather's heart when he is born. His heart calms people's anger but it burns him. He finds love with Kuro, but is married to a woman to get a son. He is raising his son differently. At the end, he becomes a grandfather and Kuro dies, but things have changed, if I understand things correctly.

On the Water Its Crystal Teeth: 3* Some sort of big change happened in the world, left unexplained. A woman who lives alone finds a turtle boy, brings him home. He disappears for a while, then comes back.

Null Path Catalog: I don't know enough about poetry to know the original poem.