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Jun. 30th, 2020 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsConsolation Songs, the charity anthology edited by Iona Datt Sharma I mentioned last week, is out today! One can purchase it in physical or mobi form from the Amazon or as epub from Smashwords.
Meanwhile, I personally stayed up too late last night gorging everyone else's extremely delightful stories, including:
"Storm Story," Llinos Cathryn Thomas - a magical generation ship crossing a boundless ocean, a once-in-a-lifetime storm, and a mandate to keep the lights burning; near-impossible tasks, community and hope
"Girls Who Read Austen," Tansy Rayner Roberts - Greek mythology monsters college roommate AU!
"Upside the Head," Marissa Lingen - a medical trial for a new treatment for head trauma (in mostly, specifically, hockey players); unexpected changes & unexpected growth
"Bethany, Bethany," Lizbeth Myles - a changeling story about sisters! my jam!!!
"Seaview on Mars," Katie Rathfelder - accessible elder-home hunting on a space colony that is now but was not always thriving; a really great evocation of a larger world and context from a quiet and personal moment
"A Hundred and Seventy Storms," Aliette de Bodard - a sentient spaceship and her human cousin weathering a terrible storm (as a sidenote, Aliette de Bodard's Xuya books have been on my TBR for a while but had not personally realized that the premise was quite that much "McCaffrey's Ship Who Sang books, but good!", which I am very excited about)
"Low Energy Economy," Adrian Tchaikovsky - a contract worker chugs along on a doomed mission that may not in fact be completely doomed after all
"Four," Freya Marske - a Good Omens-ish riff on apocalyptic powers, set in suburban Australia & ft. Freya's trademark incredibly gleaming prose
"St. Anselm-By-The-Riverside," Iona Datt Sharma - a middle-aged hospital worker navigates her way through a first romance in a world that is borked in ways slightly parallel to our own; rich and layered with a fascinating second thread running through it
"This Is New Gehesran Calling," Rebecca Fraimow - this one is me! pirate radio and diasporic community in space!
"Of a Female Stranger," Jeannelle M. Ferreira - turn-of-the-eighteenth-century selkies! "are they lesbians" OF COURSE they are lesbians and it's great
"Love, Your Flatmate," Stephanie Burgis - a human gets stuck with an unwanted fairy houseguest during COVID-19 lockdown ... And Indeed They Were Roommates
If any of that sounds interesting, and if you have six dollars to spare, please consider making the purchase; all proceeds go to the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust!
Meanwhile, I personally stayed up too late last night gorging everyone else's extremely delightful stories, including:
"Storm Story," Llinos Cathryn Thomas - a magical generation ship crossing a boundless ocean, a once-in-a-lifetime storm, and a mandate to keep the lights burning; near-impossible tasks, community and hope
"Girls Who Read Austen," Tansy Rayner Roberts - Greek mythology monsters college roommate AU!
"Upside the Head," Marissa Lingen - a medical trial for a new treatment for head trauma (in mostly, specifically, hockey players); unexpected changes & unexpected growth
"Bethany, Bethany," Lizbeth Myles - a changeling story about sisters! my jam!!!
"Seaview on Mars," Katie Rathfelder - accessible elder-home hunting on a space colony that is now but was not always thriving; a really great evocation of a larger world and context from a quiet and personal moment
"A Hundred and Seventy Storms," Aliette de Bodard - a sentient spaceship and her human cousin weathering a terrible storm (as a sidenote, Aliette de Bodard's Xuya books have been on my TBR for a while but had not personally realized that the premise was quite that much "McCaffrey's Ship Who Sang books, but good!", which I am very excited about)
"Low Energy Economy," Adrian Tchaikovsky - a contract worker chugs along on a doomed mission that may not in fact be completely doomed after all
"Four," Freya Marske - a Good Omens-ish riff on apocalyptic powers, set in suburban Australia & ft. Freya's trademark incredibly gleaming prose
"St. Anselm-By-The-Riverside," Iona Datt Sharma - a middle-aged hospital worker navigates her way through a first romance in a world that is borked in ways slightly parallel to our own; rich and layered with a fascinating second thread running through it
"This Is New Gehesran Calling," Rebecca Fraimow - this one is me! pirate radio and diasporic community in space!
"Of a Female Stranger," Jeannelle M. Ferreira - turn-of-the-eighteenth-century selkies! "are they lesbians" OF COURSE they are lesbians and it's great
"Love, Your Flatmate," Stephanie Burgis - a human gets stuck with an unwanted fairy houseguest during COVID-19 lockdown ... And Indeed They Were Roommates
If any of that sounds interesting, and if you have six dollars to spare, please consider making the purchase; all proceeds go to the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust!
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Date: 2020-06-30 05:54 pm (UTC)Yay, this anthology!
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Date: 2020-07-01 03:11 am (UTC)I'd only read
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Date: 2020-06-30 06:03 pm (UTC)What, really?! Come for the great book reviews; discover later that the reviewer wrote one of my favorite short stories ever. (I love "Further Arguments in Support of Yudah Cohen’s Proposal to Bluma Zilberman" so much.)
Thanks for the detailed notes on the new anthology. I'm off to buy my copy now.
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Date: 2020-07-03 08:30 pm (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2020-07-27 11:52 am (UTC)Re: Yay!
Date: 2020-07-27 08:16 pm (UTC)"Seaview on Mars" and "Stormy Sea" are both SUCH incredible stories!!