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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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In Utriusque Cosmi by Robert Charles Wilson, that sort of time scale is lived through only because the couple has the choice of how they experience time. 100 years a second, 1000 years a second, more... It is a happy story because there are two of them living it.
Boom! I will start this tomorrow.
I think it’s relative to how long your cohort lives. In Guild Hunter, Angels and Vampires are naturally immortal but killable. It’s completely normal to live over a thousand years but they strain their sanity once most everyone they grew up with has chosen to sleep or has died.
I was excited about this collection but did not enjoy it much. Shrug, it happens: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Florilegia or Some Lies About Flowers by Amal El-Mohtar ★★★★☆ A woman made of flowers is befriended by a remade woman who teaches her the possibility of life and power. It’s a vengeful story, which I am fine with, and amusingly was written out of irritation as a response to another writers interpretation of the original story.
The Things Eric Eats Before He Eats Himself by Carmen Maria Machado ★☆☆☆☆ Unintelligible. Like One Hundred Years of Solitude on shrooms.
Buried Deep by Naomi Novik DNFThis was just too sad to continue. Novik probably has a great ending but I’m not feeling up to the misery of this setting.
Close Enough for Jazz by John Chu ★★☆☆☆ There was a lot of passion in this story that didn’t go anywhere. There were apples that could change your body (sort of) permanently (not really) and that would somehow make you happy (not everyone) with less than your ideal body. I think we are suppose to feel bad that our MC WOC could not make that into a successful pitch for rich white men. Between that crap approach, and the illegal human testing, I would not have given her a dime either.
Live Stream by Alyssa Wong ★★★½☆ Another story of the vicious online world, this one highlighting revenge porn.
Glad you liked it Shera, I always want to share the funny!
Loved The High Frontier trailer, it was such a hopeful time.
To my endless joy Justified may be getting something of a reboot: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/just...
Can you smell the sea swelling?
Can you hear the waves crashing?
Can you feel the God gathering?
It’s coming...
It’s that time of year again friends! Merfolk May is when we celebrate all the sea has to offer; from mermaids to monstrosities, from folklore to erotica - there are fathoms of fun for all!
Challenge begins May 1st
Post a list of everything you hope to read, challenge yourself to read more than last year (2020 was hell on Merfolk May). Comment as you read to let us know how it’s going!
Alan Carr brilliantly reads a letter to an insurance company describing just how much trouble a penis can get into under the heading “Stupidity.”https://youtu.be/80I6jBrsRcw
I just check and lucked out, my library has four copies!
Sisyphus in Elysium by Jeffrey Ford ★★★☆☆ The title says it all. I appreciated the reunion with his wife Merope and their recollections of simpler times.
Kali_Na by Indrapramit Das ★★★☆☆
Social problems, injustice, and general anger, explode in a VR AI version of Kali.
I agree this was a letdown.
Across the River by Leah Cypess ★★★★☆ Jewish mysticism and sorcery! This was clever, interesting, soulful, and unique. It makes me want to read Claw & Warder.
Curses Like Words, Feathers Like Stories by Kat Howard ★★★☆☆ That just ok, a story of regret. I was really hoping for more since her Medea story, Hath No Fury, was excellent.
