by M.L. Wang
★★★½
Tag archives: fantasy
Someplace Generous: An Inclusive Romance Anthology
by Elaina Ellis, Amber Flame (editors)
★★★★
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★¼
Those Beyond the Wall
(The Space Between Worlds #2)
by Micaiah Johnson
★★★★½
La Fille dans la tour
(The Winternight Trilogy #2)
by Katherine Arden
★★¾
And Then She Fell
by Alicia Elliott
★★★¼
The Lies of the Ajungo
by Moses Ose Utomi
★★¾
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
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
The Gilda Stories
by Jewelle Gomez
★★★½
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.
Touched
by Walter Mosley
★★
We Are the Crisis
Convergence Saga #2
Cadwell Turnbull
★★★★
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
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
Thornhedge
by T. Kingfisher
★★★½
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
Silver Nitrate
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
★★★★
The Future Is Female! Vol. 2: The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women
by Lisa Yaszek (Editor)
- “Frog Pond” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ★★★★
- “When It Changed” by Joanna Russ ★★★
- “If Ever I Should Leave You” by Pamela Sargent ★★★½
- “Pale Hands” by Doris Piserchia ★★½
- “A Scarab in the City of Time” by Marta Randall ★★★½
- “The Anthropologist” by Kathleen M. Sidney
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight (Editors)
- “Simbi” by Sandra Jackson-Opoku ★★½
- “Housewarming for a Lion Goddess” by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga ★★★
- “A Knight in Tunisia” by Alex Jennings ★★★
- “The Devil Is Us” by Mirette Bahgat ★★½
- “The Lady of the Yellow-painted Library” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★½
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