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Naomi Kritzer

Teoksen Catfishing on CatNet: A Novel tekijä

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Naomi Kritzer is an American writer and blogger, born April 23, 1974 in North Carolina. Her work includes two novel series Dead River, and Eliana's Song. Her first short story, Faust's SASE" was published in 1999 and she has published over twenty more. Her short story, Cat Pictures Please, was näytä lisää published in 2015 and won the 2016 Hugo Awards for Best Short Story and a Locus Award for Best First Novel. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

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Tekijän teokset

Catfishing on CatNet: A Novel (2019) 309 kappaletta
Fires of the Faithful (2002) 273 kappaletta
Freedom's Gate (2004) 186 kappaletta
Turning the Storm (2003) 162 kappaletta
Freedom's Apprentice (2005) 128 kappaletta
Chaos on CatNet (2021) 117 kappaletta
Freedom's Sisters (2006) 113 kappaletta
Little Free Library [short story] (2020) — Tekijä — 44 kappaletta
Liberty's Daughter (2023) 41 kappaletta
Cat Pictures Please {short story} (2015) 24 kappaletta
Monster (short story) (2020) 5 kappaletta

Associated Works

Year's Best Fantasy (2001) — Avustaja — 202 kappaletta
Sword and Sorceress XXI (2004) — Avustaja — 185 kappaletta
Year's Best Fantasy 3 (2003) — Avustaja — 133 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 (2016) — Avustaja — 100 kappaletta
Year's Best SF 18 (2013) — Avustaja — 92 kappaletta
Infinity's End (2018) — Avustaja — 73 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition (2013) — Avustaja — 64 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2016 Edition (2016) — Avustaja — 57 kappaletta
Not One of Us: Stories of Aliens on Earth (2018) — Avustaja — 55 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 (2019) — Avustaja — 51 kappaletta
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy (2021) — Avustaja — 44 kappaletta
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) — Avustaja — 39 kappaletta
Clarkesworld: Issue 100 (January 2015) (2015) — Avustaja — 38 kappaletta
The Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023) — Avustaja — 20 kappaletta
Uncanny Magazine Issue 16: May/June 2017 (2017) — Avustaja — 20 kappaletta
Uncanny Magazine Issue 25: November/December 2018 (2018) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
Clarkesworld: Year Eight (2016) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2019 Edition (2019) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume Two (2021) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
Clarkesworld: Issue 160 (January 2020) (2020) — Avustaja — 15 kappaletta
Clarkesworld: Issue 085 (October 2013) (2013) — Avustaja — 13 kappaletta
The Reinvented Heart (2022) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
Clarkesworld: Issue 110 (November 2015) (2015) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
Clarkesworld Year Nine: Volume One (2018) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
The Best of Strange Horizons: Year Two (2004) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Tor.com Short Fiction: March - April 2020 (2020) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Apex Magazine 112 (September 2018) (2018) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
Clarkesworld: Issue 200 (May 2023) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
Clarkesworld: Issue 126 (March 2017) (2017) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Uncanny Magazine: The Best of 2018 — Avustaja, eräät painokset2 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Syntymäaika
1973-04-23
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
USA
Syntymäpaikka
North Carolina, USA
Koulutus
Carleton College

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I read this young adult work as part of the Nebula Award/Norton packet. I found it to be a breezy, intense read, genuinely interesting from page one. I think my only issue was that it was clear that different segments were published separately, as the sections still felt somewhat disjointed. A fabulous work, though. I've really enjoyed everything I've read by Kritzer.
 
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ladycato | 1 muu arvostelu | Mar 16, 2024 |
Pros:
- gay
- butch
- the fastest I've read a fantasy novel in over a decade
- interesting worldbuilding
- gaaaaaaaay

Cons:
- despite the window dressing, it's all Christians all the way down
- still a sort of formulaic fantasy novel

What is up with that cover!! Eliana spends the first section of the book in shapeless gray robes and short hair, and most of the rest dressed like a dirty short-haired peasant Joan of Arc. There's multiple plot points where she's uncomfortable in or outright refuses to wear dresses.

So, despite some (creative, I grant) differences in festivals, goddess-worship, sexual morals, details of the stories, and etc, this is a lightly disguised version of early christians vs the catholic church in more-or-less Italy, plus some enviornmentalism. I don't know a lot about early christian history so I'm sure there are many things I'm missing, but I know enough Aramaic/Hebrew (it's probably Aramaic, I just don't know enough to confirm it's *not* Hebrew) to know that she's not working that hard to come up with her own stuff.

I have some very mixed feelings about christians using Aramaic/Hebrew for their religious purposes. On the one hand, sure, Jesus spoke Aramaic. On the other hand, your scripture is written in Greek! The christian religious use of Aramaic/Hebrew is always suspicious to me, strategically giving christianity a fake patina of age by tacking it onto jewish history/scripture/thought as the only natural continuation. When you're writing a story about your "Old Religion" being violently suppressed by institutional (Mary-worshipping, lol) catholicism, too.... eesh. Where'd you stash the Jews, polytheistic greco-roman pagans, etc. in this story?

On the upside, Eliana is not a capital-B believer and has a lot of questions and doubts about Redentore sexual and other morals. On the downside, I am never going to be a fan of a fantasy monotheism when you can "prove" a given religion is the correct one, as Lucia's story seems to do. I'm not sure if the story is just gonna let that stand or complicate how much of her conviction is confirmation bias.

Either way, I ordered the second one from an online used bookstore and I'm looking forward to reading it.
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caedocyon | 6 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 6, 2024 |
This was a mixed bag of short fiction—the bits I liked I loved a lot, and the bits I didn't like I generally REALLY didn't like. The stand-out by far was “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer. “A Piece of the Continent” by Marissa Lingen was also quite enjoyable. I read the nonfiction articles this time, too, and really liked the article by Amanda-Rae Prescott on Doctor Who regenerating into a Black man.

CONTENTS
Fiction:

“The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer
“The Pandemonium Waltz” by Jeffrey Ford
“The Quiet of Drowning” by Kel Coleman
“We’re Looking for the Best” by Cecil Castellucci
“A Piece of the Continent” by Marissa Lingen
“Endof Play” by Chelsea Sutton
“Esqueleto” by Ana Hurtado
Nonfiction:
“Scalzi on Film: Speed Racer’s Long Road” by John Scalzi
“Ncuti to the Moon” by Amanda-Rae Prescott
“The Telling Silence of A Ghost Story for Christmas” by Paul Cornell
“Sweat and Skin” by Lee Mandelo
Poetry:
“yes, your reflection is screaming” by Carlie St. George
“Not Cricket” by Tehnuka
“How to Haunt a Northern Lake” by Lora Gray
“Ferry to the Island of Ghosts” by Angela Liu
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ca.bookwyrm | Feb 7, 2024 |
My opinion on Turning the storm is sort of similar to that of Fires of the faithful. It has a great heroine, it passes the Bechdel test, and it has a nice story. I did find myself drifting away on occasion. I'm not sure if I can describe what it was, but I was a bit impatient with it at times. I think it would have benefited from a bit more depth regarding the characters. It pains me a little to say it, since I did like the characters. But with the novelty of the story wearing off a bit, I guess I started noticing a certain simplicity in the description of the characters and a bit in the story itself as well. That doesn't mean it wasn't pleasant to read, it was. And if I'm correct this is only the second book of this author, so I have high hopes for her. She had good ideas: I like the male/female equality, I like the way the main characters, Eliana, slowly figures out she likes women and the understated way in which this is described, and I like how she mixes the ideological with the practical when it comes to religion. This is the only fantasy book I can remember that shows a christian-like religion in a positive light, which is already interesting by itself. Of course, the differences she has incorporated (the most important one God being female) are interesting to see as well. What I really like is that a few of the main characters only vaguely believe in either religion, despite the fact that one of their friends is a fervent believer, and that both religions are corrupted at some point by people lusting for power. Even though the fighting parties are mostly divided by religion, it shows people of either religion fighting on both sides, it shows that there are good people and bad people on both sides, and in the end, it shows that neither side is impervious to corruption.

All in all, I would give this book 3.5 stars, because I think the execution could be improved, but given the subject matters, and the original ideas the author incorporates in her book, I'm rounding it of to four.
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zjakkelien | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 2, 2024 |

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