by Sarah Pinsker
★★★★½
Tag archives: fantasy
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
★★★★
Celia’s Song
by Lee Maracle
★★★
The Deep
by Rivers Solomon
★★★
Lent
by Jo Walton
★★★★★
Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
(Laksa Anthology Series #3)
by Lucas K. Law, Derwin Mak (Editors)
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- “DNR” by Gabriele Lee ★★★
- “Meridian” by Karin Lowachee ★★★
- “Crash” by Melissa Yuan-Innis ★★★
- “Memoriam” by Priya Sridhar ★★
- “Decision” by Joyce Chng ★
- “Moon Halves” by Anne Carly Abad ★★
- “The Bridge of Dangerous Longings” by Rati
The True Queen
(Sorcerer Royal #2)
by Zen Cho
★★★
Sorcerer to the Crown
(Sorcerer Royal #1)
by Zen Cho
While I’m into Manglish, it’s a dragging chore to wade through stilted, pompous fantasy-speak. On top of that, referring to the female of the species so insistently is eminently irritating. It’s hard to stomach fantasy when one creates a world of dragons and fairies and … Read more
She Would Be King
by Wayétu Moore
★★★★
Trail of Lightning
(The Sixth World #1)
by Rebecca Roanhorse
★★★★
Love: Beyond Body, Space & Time
by Hope Nicholson (Editor)
★★★★
Spirits Abroad
by Zen Cho
Zen Cho is my new favourite short story writer. Generally I find magical realism exhausting and irrelevant (García Márquez). Spirits Abroad is the first work I’ve read whose magical elements complement the stories—which pulse with inventiveness and humour.
Wildcard
(Warcross #2)
by Marie Lu
★★★
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
★★★★
All the Names They Used for God
by Anjali Sachdeva
★★★★½
Necessity
(Thessaly #3)
by Jo Walton
★★★★
My Real Children
by Jo Walton
★★★★★
The Philosopher Kings
(Thessaly #2)
by Jo Walton
** spoiler alert **
The Power
by Naomi Alderman
A fantasy I could indulge in but philosophically unimaginative, positing only that power corrupts. A simple reversal without consideration of history of oppression, blanketing humanity with the empathic capacity of a child wanting to be king of the hill.
Binti
(Binti #1)
by Nnedi Okorafor
★★★