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Jun 02, 2014
Trish
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A wonderful, human story about choices, family and dreams.
Bought this because of the HELLA awesome opening:
"Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife. She met me, she went on to say, when I was working next door to their farm under the shadow of the rocket gantry for the First Mars Expedition....more
I have no memory of this.
She would have been a little girl and, oh lord, there were so many little kids hanging around outside the Fence watching us work. The little girls a
Do not read this first, I don't care that it was published first, it contains major spoilers for The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky.
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Story 8 in my 24 Days of Shorts
This was phenomenal and I should have been prepared for that because so many of my friends said it was phenomenal but I was still blown away by the emotional KAPOW that Kowal packed into this short story. Wow!
read it for yourself here:
https://www.tor.com/2014/04/19/the-la...
My 24 Days of Shorts
1. Yiwu by Lavie Tidhar
2. The Night Cyclist by Stephen Graham Jones
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It’s a hard thing to look at something you want and to know that the right choice is to turn it down.
This was phenomenal and I should have been prepared for that because so many of my friends said it was phenomenal but I was still blown away by the emotional KAPOW that Kowal packed into this short story. Wow!
read it for yourself here:
https://www.tor.com/2014/04/19/the-la...
My 24 Days of Shorts
1. Yiwu by Lavie Tidhar
2. The Night Cyclist by Stephen Graham Jones
3 ...more
I didn't intend to start my day off by weeping, but I'm not sorry I did. Not sure what the point is of the Wizard of Oz reference, but this was a deeply affecting story that had more to do with human relationships than actual space stuff.
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The ties between the science fiction and the personal worked a lot better for me in the context of this short story than in The Calculating Stars. It's simple and imperfect, but touching.
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