Marissa K. Lingen
Teoksen The Calculus Plague tekijä
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Tekijän teokset
The Calculus Plague 5 kappaletta
The Grandmother-granddaughter Conspiracy 3 kappaletta
On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant) 2 kappaletta
In the Garden and Graves {short story} 2 kappaletta
Some of Them Closer 2 kappaletta
Surfacing (short story) 2 kappaletta
The Opposite of Pomegranates 2 kappaletta
Monstrous Bonds 2 kappaletta
Things We Have in this House for No Reason 2 kappaletta
Ask Citizen Etiquette 1 kappale
Grief, as Faithful as My Hound 1 kappale
The Salt Path 1 kappale
How to Wrap a Roc's Egg 1 kappale
Rest Stop 1 kappale
The Radioactive Etiquette Book 1 kappale
The Six Skills Of Madame Lumiere 1 kappale
Dark Thread 1 kappale
Erasing the Map 1 kappale
Loki's Net 1 kappale
Making Alex Frey 1 kappale
Singing Them Back 1 kappale
The Beast's Apprentice 1 kappale
Swimming Back From Hell By Moonlight 1 kappale
Michael Banks Home From the War 1 kappale
Things We Sell to Tourists 1 kappale
Anna's Implants 1 kappale
Associated Works
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49 • June 2014 (Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue) (2014) — Avustaja — 161 kappaletta
Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: September/October 2018 (Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction) (2018) — Avustaja — 42 kappaletta
Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction for a Time of Pandemic (2020) — Avustaja — 27 kappaletta
Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories (Science and Fiction) (2016) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXXXIV, No. 9 (September 2014) (2014) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 44, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2020] (2020) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Daily Science Fiction: May 2020 — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #86 — Tekijä — 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1978-07-26
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Eagan, Minnesota, USA
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Ended up skimming this for work, so I'm going to count it as read. Lovely, with a lot of world packed into very few words.
Especially poignant as I think about the future these days:
“If I spend another year as a child,” I said. “A sleepwalking child. If I spend two, three. How will I learn then, not to be used? How will it ever get better?”
Uncle Flower reached out and stroked my head. “Oh, Zally. I don’t know if it will.”
. . .
I stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek. “It’ll be all right, Uncle Flower. I promise.”
“You can’t know that.”
“I can. I dream in centuries, and there’ll be more centuries. So it’ll be all right.”
Especially poignant as I think about the future these days:
“If I spend another year as a child,” I said. “A sleepwalking child. If I spend two, three. How will I learn then, not to be used? How will it ever get better?”
Uncle Flower reached out and stroked my head. “Oh, Zally. I don’t know if it will.”
. . .
I stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek. “It’ll be all right, Uncle Flower. I promise.”
“You can’t know that.”
“I can. I dream in centuries, and there’ll be more centuries. So it’ll be all right.”
A retelling of a Finnish folk/fairy tale about a brother who challenges the world’s greatest charmer and loses, and his sister who has to pay the price. I liked this one a lot. It had all the rhythms of a proper fairy tale, with some quite funny touches, and the relationship between the sisters and their brother was great, and the ending nicely landing in the grey area between happily ever after and tragedy.
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- 14
Some light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek stories next to more introspective pieces that would barely classify as stories. All are wonderful.