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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

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

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Editor)

“The Many Lives of an Abiku” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★★
“A Love Song for Herkinal as composed by Ashkernas amid the ruins of New Haven” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
“Are We Ourselves?” by Michelle Mellon ★★½
“The Goatkeeper’s Harvest” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★½
“Baba Klep” by Eugen

This All Come Back Now

by Mykaela Saunders (Editor)

“Myth This!” by Lisa Fuller ★★★★
“Jacaranda Street” by Jasmin McGaughey ★★★
“When From” by Merryana Salem ★★★½
“An Invitation” by Timmah Ball ★★★★
“Water” by Ellen van Neerven ★★★
“Terranora” by Mykaela Saunders ★★★
“After the End of Their World” by Hannah Donnelly ★★
“Protocols of

A shambles, outside of writing about her personal history. Misogynist yardsticks aren’t reclaimable and don’t depose the male gaze. Exudes not-like-other-girls vibes in distorting consequence for cause in prizing masculinity and maligning femininity. Haphazard groundless arguments including aligning with MRA posturing, plural Julie Delpy-style white woman statements (‘It’s … Read more