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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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The Lichens by Nina Allan ★★☆☆☆ Another forbidden time travel romance story. But this made less sense as every time the time traveler saw someone it was their first time being seen. Or that was the space-time-continuum rule of the story. Even why they traveled was not clear.
metaphor for the dissolution of a marriage as one of the partners succumbs to the inevitable ravages of the aging process. Shudder. Yes, that makes the story better and worse.
The Golden Hour by Jeffrey Ford ★★★½☆ This was a disorienting story. Time travelers are finding their way towards each other and seem to have created worlds that cannot survive without them.
Fee, Fie, Foe, Et Cetera by Gregory Maguire ★★½☆☆ That was several classic children’s fairy tales quilted together awkwardly.
Overlooking by Carol Emshwiller ★★★½☆ It’s unclear whether the group is semi-feral human/unreliable narrator or Woodland Fae. Either way it was odd but pleasantly, darkly, cultish.
I Remember Satellites by Sarah Gailey ★★★½☆ Proposes that Wallis Simpson was a purpose sent time traveler to remove the fascist future king from the throne.
First Aid by Seanan McGuire ★★★☆☆ A government funded time traveler set to arrive in Tudor times arrives at a Renaissance Fair in 1996. It’s not much of a story but the beginning was entertaining.
The Past Life, Reconstruction Service by Zen Cho ★★½☆☆ Paying to enter his past lives for half an hour at a time, a man discovers his ex is his soulmate. It was boring.
Grounded by Nina Kiriki Hoffman ★★★★★ That was absolutely beautiful. Yes, it did seem like the beginning of a horror movie: moving across the country because your mom is going to marry a man she met online but has never seen. And yet, through a little Fae-ness, there is nothing but love and new beginnings.
A World Painted By Birds by Katherine Vaz ★★☆☆☆ This is that poetic magical realism that great Latin American writers love. But I never have.
Charlie’s Away by Midori Snyder ★★★★☆ Before his adult life begins a young man worries his parents will fall apart without him. They had already lost one child. As he escapes into the Greenwood he finds out his parents lives do not revolve around him and that his family is greater than he knew.
Hunter’s Moon by Patricia A. Mckillip ★★★½☆ “I came within an inch of shooting you. Your mother is going to kill me.”
There was a little magic, a little first wonder and lust, in those woods - abruptly cut off by a gunshot. I hope she returns to find the red haired hunter.
I should also point out that the author, Laird Barron, has been in some pretty bad health recently. I put some Laird Barron on the poll for April!
The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt ★★★★☆ “Let me go. I’ll fucking kill you.”
“I’m afraid I can’t, young man. I might need more of your blood.”
Now that would make a great horror movie trailer. This story was about a man obsessed, a man who discovers his idol knew real magic, and then tried to use that magic to steal his idols life. As Stephen Kings showed in Misery, your biggest fan can be your biggest threat.
Roadside Attraction by Alix E. Harrow ★★★★☆ “I think the stone takes you where you’re supposed to be. Where you make sense.”
“Doesn’t the stone keep taking you back here?”
A layered story of the extraordinary and common colliding! A time travel device is found, but as it is random and uncontrollable, it ends up as a road side attraction. A man throws himself repeatedly into the past to find his great destiny, while the love of his life waits patiently in an RV.
It begins!
Deep in the dark forest, in a cottage that spins on birds’ legs behind a fence topped with human skulls, lives the baba yaga. A guardian of the water of life, she lives with her sisters and takes to the skies in a giant mortar and pestle, creating tempests as she goes. Those who come across the baba yaga may find help, or hinderance, or horror. She is wild, she is woman, she is witch—and these are her tales.
Dissonance- yes! Accurate and well said!
