Lena’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2014)

Lena’s comments from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.

Hyphae by John Langan ★★★☆☆
“James pulled to the side of the road, shifted the car into Park and screamed until the cords on his neck stood out...”
Creepy story about a son checking up on his estranged hermetic father. What’s left of him in the tunnel under the basement sends the son away screaming...

But Canavan is right, it was just ok.

Good to see you here Canavan!

I did too. I can imagine it coming up as a monthly selection.

Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors on sale for 99¢: https://www.amazon.com/Miscreations-G...

Sounds like a plan, lol. I can’t tell you they get better than that story.

I read the Introduction too.

More closely related to animals than plants, but fundamentally different from both, the members of the kingdom fungi are a diverse and mysterious lot.

I found that a little freaky, lol.

There is still a whole day, lol. I ran off the new months email a day early. It was late, I couldn’t sleep so I started doing errands and I got confused on the date, lol.

And so it begins...

Yes, I doubt that man survived the removals, lol.

The blank sheets of pardons he left his assassin nephews.
His term in office where he did not want to hire any women.
An entire novel vilifying the environmental movement.
Making Jack out as the richest guy to ever be president.
Yes, definitely a change a tenor.

I liked them until Rainbow Six, then I thought he went downhill into ultra conservative rhetoric. The Jack Jr one I tried to read didn’t make me happy either. I’m going to do a reread of the Jack Ryan series as GR has it with the new ghost written ones. We’ll see how far I get.

Joe Ledger started strong then turned into unpleasant cartoons.

Thanks for reading with us Tyler, I found a few stories were memorable!

Fiona, what do you think happened at the end of Inselberg?

Drowned by Lavie Tidhar ★★★☆☆
Pleasant postdiluvian folktale origin story.


The Future is Blue by Catherynne M. Valente ★★★☆☆
Imagine Waterworld built on the Pacific Garbage patch. It’s a rough world but Tetley has found happiness and can’t understand why others would trade their current joys for hope (false hope?).

I’m not sure if this is a commentary on the current obsession with colonizing Mars or just a general climate change warning story.

Jack Ryan

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Finished: 6/13/2020
Star Rating: ★★★★★
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Finished: 6/16/2020
Star Rating: ★★★★★
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Finished: 6/19/2020
Star Rating: ★★★☆☆
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Finished: 6/22/2020
Star Rating: ★★★★☆
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Female Sam from Supernatural looked so much like Jaime Alexander to me I had to find a photo and share.

Graeme wrote: It's better to replace a system through obsoleting it then by destroying it. In the former, system adherents will let it go, in the latter they will fight to preserve it.


Is that what it feels like in Australia these days? I don’t watch the news anymore but I get Smithsonian articles daily, it’s usually history but I saw one of a mob in Bristol taking down a statue and throwing it in the river or ocean. Has there been such things there? The feeling of the present trying to rip apart the past instead of obsoleting it?

I wasn’t sure about that one either.

I watched this and thought Amazon has Supermarket Sweep?!?! I haven’t seen that in years! And now I have to watch it.

Bill & Ted are back! https://youtu.be/0i-c00p1r4E