Marissa K. Lingen
Autore di The Calculus Plague
Sull'Autore
Opere di Marissa K. Lingen
The Calculus Plague 5 copie
Some of Them Closer 2 copie
Surfacing (short story) 2 copie
The Opposite of Pomegranates 2 copie
Monstrous Bonds 2 copie
Ask Citizen Etiquette 1 copia
Grief, as Faithful as My Hound 1 copia
The Salt Path 1 copia
How to Wrap a Roc's Egg 1 copia
Rest Stop 1 copia
The Radioactive Etiquette Book 1 copia
The Six Skills Of Madame Lumiere 1 copia
Dark Thread 1 copia
Erasing the Map 1 copia
Loki's Net 1 copia
Making Alex Frey 1 copia
Singing Them Back 1 copia
The Beast's Apprentice 1 copia
Michael Banks Home From the War 1 copia
Things We Sell to Tourists 1 copia
Anna's Implants 1 copia
Opere correlate
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49 • June 2014 (Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue) (2014) — Collaboratore — 161 copie
Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: September/October 2018 (Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction) (2018) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction for a Time of Pandemic (2020) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories (Science and Fiction) (2016) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXXXIV, No. 9 (September 2014) (2014) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 44, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2020] (2020) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Daily Science Fiction: May 2020 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #86 — Autore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1978-07-26
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Eagan, Minnesota, USA
Utenti
Recensioni
Ended up skimming this for work, so I'm going to count it as read. Lovely, with a lot of world packed into very few words.
Especially poignant as I think about the future these days:
“If I spend another year as a child,” I said. “A sleepwalking child. If I spend two, three. How will I learn then, not to be used? How will it ever get better?”
Uncle Flower reached out and stroked my head. “Oh, Zally. I don’t know if it will.”
. . .
I stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek. “It’ll be all right, Uncle Flower. I promise.”
“You can’t know that.”
“I can. I dream in centuries, and there’ll be more centuries. So it’ll be all right.”
Especially poignant as I think about the future these days:
“If I spend another year as a child,” I said. “A sleepwalking child. If I spend two, three. How will I learn then, not to be used? How will it ever get better?”
Uncle Flower reached out and stroked my head. “Oh, Zally. I don’t know if it will.”
. . .
I stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek. “It’ll be all right, Uncle Flower. I promise.”
“You can’t know that.”
“I can. I dream in centuries, and there’ll be more centuries. So it’ll be all right.”
A retelling of a Finnish folk/fairy tale about a brother who challenges the world’s greatest charmer and loses, and his sister who has to pay the price. I liked this one a lot. It had all the rhythms of a proper fairy tale, with some quite funny touches, and the relationship between the sisters and their brother was great, and the ending nicely landing in the grey area between happily ever after and tragedy.
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- 54
- Utenti
- 65
- Popolarità
- #261,994
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 14
Some light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek stories next to more introspective pieces that would barely classify as stories. All are wonderful.