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Excellent world building that felt a little cut short

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti: Sacred Fire by Nnedi Okorafor

August 21, 2022 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – Star Binti runs away from her home, her family, her people, and even her planet to attend school. She is hesitant to leave even though she knows there are incredible opportunities waiting for her at Oomza University. With only a jar of otjize, a clay mixture from her community that she rubs over all of her skin and hair, her edan, a piece of ancient technology she discovered in the desert, and her nearly magical ability to see and grab mathematical equations, Binti […]

Some Romance Quick Reads to Start the Year

One Minute to Midnight by Jasmine Luck

Resolutions by Lucy Eden

January 1, 2022 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Having always intended to spend New Year’s Day home and reading I had stashed a light, fun read in my Kindle account to help kick off the year. Then, scrolling through Twitter this morning I saw a link to another and thought – yes, let’s do this. About half the time I start my Cannonball Reads off with a romance (although my first Cannonball book ever, Pope Joan, was definitely NOT) so it felt like the absolute right way to start off CBR14. One Minute […]

“Reagan already felt hard enough. She didn’t need any accessories. She didn’t need to telegraph it out to the world.”

If the Fates Allow by Rainbow Rowell

November 18, 2021 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, I saw an announcement on Rainbow Rowell’s Instagram that she was releasing a holiday short story this year and I rejoiced. I like Rowell’s short form work as much as I like her novel length ones. I’ve read Kindred Spirits, her 2016 take on fandom and waiting in line for Star Wars. Rowell also has holiday themed ones: Almost Midnight, 2017’s collection that includes both Kindred Spirits and Midnights. Midnights tracks a pair across several years’ worth of New Year’s Eves […]

The Paper Menagerie & Other Stories by Ken Liu

All the Flavors by Ken Liu

The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu

December 16, 2020 by Ale Leave a Comment

Always on the lookout for speculative short fiction, I came across Ken Liu on an internet list somewhere. The little bio said he’d won the Hugo and the Nebula for his short stories and translations, and as I’m ashamed to say I’ve read very little by Chinese-American authors, I immediately ran to the library. They had his short story collection, The Paper Menagerie & Other Stories, and even though I knew he was award winning, I was not prepared for just how life-changing this collection would […]

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Filed Under: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: alternate history, China, Chinese history, collection, hugo winner, Japan, ken liu, Nebula winner, novella, short story

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Everyone is Doing Their Bit in Their Own Way

Bisexual Unicorn Vampires Teach Me the Importance of the Vampire Cough by Chuck Tingle

October 11, 2020 by LittlePlat 3 Comments

Well, I don’t think I could have picked a more tonally different read for my No Money review than my Money one. Chuck Tingle is famous for his eclectic romance shorts between people and exotic cryptic species, people and inanimate objects, and even people and abstract concepts. Recently, he has been inundated with requests for Coronavirus related erotica — which he has refused to do, on the grounds that he doesn’t want to write about things or events that are harming people. So instead, Chuck […]

Breathing in a collection of sci-fi short stories by a master

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

April 27, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Exhalation: Stories is a collection of short sci-fi stories written by Ted Chiang. Below is a short review of each story but over-all, Exhalation: Stories made me think. Collectively, each story forced upon a small crisis of identity in how I relate to technology in my own world, and I am a more self-aware person for it. Chiang created a collection of stories that all meshes together. No story feels out of place or like an intruder. “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”: An interesting and […]

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