FF: Selections From…

Persephone Revels

Featured in the picture is the new anthology, Worlds of Light and Darkness, which combines a selection of stories taken from DreamForge and Space and Time magazines.  I wrote the introduction in which I discuss why I feel writing stories with hope as a theme is far harder than writing grimdark.  Oh, and my story “Born From Memory” is one of the selections

For those of you unfamiliar with this column, the Friday Fragments lists what I’ve read over the past week.  Most of the time I don’t include details of either short fiction (unless part of a book-length collection) or magazines.  The Fragments are not meant to be a recommendation list.  If you’re interested in a not-at-all-inclusive recommendation list, you can look on my website under Neat Stuff.

Once again, this is not a book review column.  It’s just a list with, maybe, a bit of description or a few opinions tossed in.  And it’s also a great place to tell me what you’re reading. 

Recently Completed:

Forced Perspectives by Tim Powers.  Picks up with the characters from Powers’ Alternate Routes.  Full of chase scenes and daring escapes, paranoia, and a secret history that is a crazy-quilt from various sources.

In Progress:

Bloodline by Dick Francis, actually by Felix  Francis, his son.  Audiobook.  A FF Reader recommended author!!!

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles by Clamp.  Manga.  Issue 18.  An ambitious if not completely successful story.  I’m familiar with the first part of the story, because I just re-watched the anime, but it ended before the story did, and I felt drawn to finish it.  I’ve read it before, so I guess they were successful in that I wanted to read it again.

Also:

A few magazine articles, mostly in Smithsonian.