Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities by Preston Grassmann (Editor) “Banish” Alastair Reynolds DNF “Cracks” Chana Porter ★★★★ “A Threshold Hypothesis” Jayaprakash Satyamurthy DNF “Crunchables” Ian Mcdonald ★★★½ “Quorum’s Eye” Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ★★★¼ “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” Paul Di Filippo ★★★ “Days of Magic, Nights of War” Clive Barker ★★ “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel” Ken … Read more
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Editors) “Kushtuka” Mathilda Zeller ★★★½ “White Hills” Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★½ “Navajos Don’t Wear Elk Teeth” Conley Lyons ★★★½ “Wingless” Marcie R. Rendon ★★★ “Quantum” Nick Medina ★★★ “Hunger” Phoenix Boudreau ★★★½ “Tick Talk” Cherie Dimaline ★★★ “The Ones Who Killed Us” Brandon Hobson DNF… Read more
The Emergent (Cosmic #2) by Nadia Afifi My patience for reading action/thriller got used up. Amira is friends with cops. Hadrian’s linguistic affectation, for someone who moved to the States when he was twelve, is still obnoxious.
The Book of Witches by Jonathan Strahan (Editor) “What Is a Witch?” Jonathan Strahan ★½ “Seed of Power” Linda D. Addison ★★ “What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata” P. Djèlí Clark ★★★½ “The Luck Thief” Tade Thompson ★★★½ “Good Spells” Ken Liu ★★★ “The Liar” Darcie Little Badger ★★★★★ “Met Swallow” Cassandra Khaw … Read more
Lost Places by Sarah Pinsker “Two Truths and a Lie” ★★★ “That Our Flag Was Still There” ★★★ “I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise” DNF “The Court Magician” ★★★ “Everything Is Closed Today” ★★★ “Left the Century to Sit Unmoved” ★★★ “Escape from Caring Seasons” ★★★¼ “A Better Way … Read more
New Suns 2 : Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (Editor) “Ocasta” by Daniel H. Wilson ★★★★ “The Farmer’s Wife and the Faerie Queen” by K. Tempest Bradford ★★★★ “Juan” by Darcie Little Badger ★★★★★ “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood” by Nghi Vo ★★★★ “Chosen” by Saad Hossain ★★★★½ “Home Is Where the Heart Is” by … Read more