by Aminata Touré
★★★½
Monthly archives: November 2022
The Best of World SF: Volume 2
by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)
- “The Bahrain Underground Bazaar” by Nadia Afifi ★★★★★
- “The Ten-Percent Thief” by Lavanya Lakshminarayan ★★★
- “At Desk 9501” by Frances Ogamba ★★★
- “Bring Your Own Spoon” (reread) by Saad Z. Hossain ★★★★★
- “Blue Grey Blue” by Yukimi Ogawa ★★★½
- “Your Multicolored Life” by Xing He ★★
- “The
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler
by Lynell George
★★★
To Hold up the Sky
by Liu Cixin
★★★¼ Liu was able to hold back on overt sexist commentary until the last story. Detailed dives into narrow points of imagination. He can’t conceive of worlds where leaders aren’t men, where justice and art thrive together, where god-like entities have more emotional intelligence than insecure, petulant babies.… Read more
Le bal des folles
by Victoria Mas
★★★½
Ten Little Indians
by Sherman Alexie
- “The Search Engine” ★★★★
- “Lawyer’s League” ★★★½
- “Can I Get a Witness?” ★★★
- “Do Not Go Gentle” ★★★
- “Flight Patterns” ★★½
- “The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above” ★★½
- “Do You Know Where I Am?” ★★★★
- “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” ★★★★
- “What Ever Happened to
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by Shashi Tharoor
★★★½
Our Wives Under the Sea
by Julia Armfield
★★★½
The Best of World SF: Volume 1
by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)
- “What the Dead Man Said” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
- “Delhi” by Vandana Singh ★★★★
- “The Wheel of Samsara” by Han Song ★★
- “Xingzhou” by Ng Yi-Sheng ★★★
- “Prayer” by Taiyo Fujii ★★
- “The Green Ship” by Francesco Verso ★★½
- “Eyes of the Crocodile” by Malena Salazar Maciá
Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry
by David Ly (Editor)
- “The Vetala’s Song” by Anuja Varghese ★★★½
- “#WWMD?” by jaye simpson ★★★
- “Gruesome My Love” by Levi Cain ★★★
- “Glamour-Us” by Andrew Wilmot ★★★
- “And the Moon Spun Round like a Top” by Hiromi Goto ★★★½
- “The Minotaur and Theseus (and Other Bullshit)” by Ben Rawluk ★★★½