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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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Winning Peace by Paul J. McAuley ★★★★☆ “Humans were at the mercy of species more powerful than them, pawns in games whose rules they didn’t know, and aims they didn’t understand.”
It’s a difficult and complicated galaxy yet humans are still divided. Two pilots on different sides have to decide to work together to survive their debts and dangers.
Night’s Slow Poison by Ann Leckie ★★☆☆☆
This is a short story from Leckie’s Imperial Radch series, which I have not read. Perhaps if I had this would have been enjoyable.
Venus Rising on Water by Tanith Lee DNFI read a few pages and found sense wanting.
Year Zero by Gemma Files DNF
I lost interest early on.
Good Lady Ducayne by Mary Elizabeth Braddon ★★★½☆
A properly good vampiric story by Jane Austen. Ok, not really, but if Jane had written about vampires this would be that story.
Turkish Delight by Roberta Lannes ★★★★☆
What began as a heartrending episode of Law & Order: UK ends in a decadent vampiric world featuring Tilda Swinton.
The Haunted House by E. Nesbit ★★☆☆☆ Turn of the century mad scientist story with an odd racial bent. I did not enjoy it.
Sleeping Cities by Wendy Webb ★★★☆☆
The sleeper must awaken... but not yet. I liked this eastern terracotta take on a gargoyle but the story was fruitless.
Butternut and Blood by Kathryn Ptacek ★★☆☆☆ Simple and unsatisfying story about an injured Confederate soldier watching a lamia and kill, each night one cot closer. There is no dramatic ending.
Hisako San by Ingrid Pitt ★★★☆☆ SyFy needs to make this a movie of the week. Sexy zombie-making vampire bubble girl bent on revenge for the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan. It was a campy handful.
Canavan wrote: "“A Question of Patronage”, Chelsea Quinn Yarbo✭✭✭½"
Have you read her Saint Germain stories?
A Question of Patronage: A Saint-Germain Story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ★★★☆☆ A nice little story of clerk who helps an old vampire being swindled. In return the vampire makes the clerks acting dreams come true.
Oh that’s a shame. I recently sprung for CBS and had been binge watching The Good Wife. Discovery is certainly on my list and my mother has enjoyed Picard.
Eleven original stories about the different paths our world might've taken... What if... the
Lincoln had never become president, and the Civil War had never taken place?
Columbus never discovered America, and the Inca developed a massive, technologically advanced empire?
Magic was real and a half-faery queen ruled England?
Hitler and Germany won the war because America never got involved?
Many of the world's religions were totally commercialized, their temples run like casinos, religions deisgned purely for profit?
An author discovered a book written by an alternate version of himself? These are just some of the possible pathways that you can take to explore the Other Earths that may be waiting just one event away...
Sweet!
Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman ★★★☆☆
A polite vampire story that reads more like a pretty Victorian Typhoid Mary.
Sangre by Lisa Tuttle ★★☆☆☆
A confused unfinished story.
Aftermath by Janet Berliner ★½☆☆☆ That was such crap on several levels.
One Among Millions by Yvonne Navarro ★★★☆☆
A lush and frightful modern vampire yarn. When your body is made to carry vampire babies, you can run, you can hide, but you’re better off just coming really hard. Being a single mother sucks.
Services Rendered by Louise Cooper ★★★★½
Loved it. Best true vampire story so far, great because it was so human, so vulnerable and violent. Penny hires a vampire to save her husband, then burns with jealousy over the two beautiful vampires. I hope Carmine ate her.
Prince of Flowers by Elizabeth Hand ★★★☆☆
There were some basic horror tropes here but the arm crawling murderous doll was effectively chilling to anyone who remembers Puppermaster.
The Vampire King of the Goth Chicks by Nancy A. Collins DNFI enjoyed the title but one paragraph in I decided this was another truck stop - skip.
Just His Type by Storm Constantine ★★★★☆
”It was demonic. It was divine.”
A writer and lecturer on vampires with an interest in the occult meets a young women eager to go down the rabbit hole with him. The cosmic primitive trance was straight out of my favorite 80s dark trip, Altered States.
The Raven Bound by Freda Warrington ★★★½☆
That was an excellent story prompt. This world proposes that vampires are addicted to humans for more than their blood. You can imagine them as the original reality show junkies.
