skygiants

Oh, thank you for the descriptions!

(A Ken Liu story! I love how he takes standard-looking setups and blows past all my emotional defenses against written sadness, and seems incredibly sincere all the way, but if you're not looking for that kind of story, not fun. I love dark & depressing stories-- so long as they're fictional-- and the recent grim/dystopian trend in sf, but it's a bit disappointing that almost everything that comes out these days is dark unless it's explicitly labeled the Optimist Anthology.)