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Maureen F. McHugh

Teoksen China Mountain Zhang tekijä

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Tekijän teokset

China Mountain Zhang (1992) 1,360 kappaletta
After the Apocalypse: Stories (2011) 456 kappaletta
Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories (2005) 364 kappaletta
Mission Child (1998) 356 kappaletta
Half the Day is Night (1994) — Tekijä — 353 kappaletta
Nekropolis (2001) 320 kappaletta
Presence {novelette} 7 kappaletta
Ancestor Money 7 kappaletta

Associated Works

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003) — Avustaja — 489 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993) — Avustaja — 432 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994) — Avustaja — 431 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection (1995) — Tekijä — 354 kappaletta
The Secret History of Fantasy (2010) — Avustaja — 199 kappaletta
The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009) — Avustaja — 196 kappaletta
Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse (2013) — Avustaja — 182 kappaletta
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 (2018) — Avustaja — 173 kappaletta
Trampoline: An Anthology (2003) — Avustaja — 167 kappaletta
Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (2009) — Avustaja — 160 kappaletta
Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (2007) — Avustaja — 148 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five (2011) — Avustaja — 147 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Avustaja, eräät painokset137 kappaletta
Starlight 1 (1996) — Avustaja — 132 kappaletta
Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love (1995) — Avustaja — 129 kappaletta
Alternate Warriors (1993) — Avustaja — 128 kappaletta
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011 Edition (2011) — Avustaja — 121 kappaletta
The Good New Stuff: Adventure in SF in the Grand Tradition (1999) — Avustaja — 113 kappaletta
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF (2008) — Avustaja — 104 kappaletta
Starlight 3 (2001) — Avustaja — 103 kappaletta
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 Edition (2012) — Avustaja — 89 kappaletta
Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (2019) — Avustaja — 88 kappaletta
After the End: Recent Apocalypses (2013) — Avustaja; Avustaja — 87 kappaletta
Alternate Outlaws (1994) — Avustaja — 85 kappaletta
New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (2003) — Avustaja — 85 kappaletta
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010) — Avustaja — 81 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 Edition (2014) — Tekijä — 77 kappaletta
CYBERSEX (1996) — Avustaja — 77 kappaletta
Aladdin: Master of the Lamp (1992) — Avustaja — 66 kappaletta
Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (1995) — Avustaja — 65 kappaletta
Alternate Tyrants (1997) — Avustaja — 59 kappaletta
Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow (2019) — Avustaja — 58 kappaletta
Zombies: More Recent Dead (2014) — Avustaja — 55 kappaletta
The Book of Witches: An Anthology (2023) — Avustaja — 55 kappaletta
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings (2012) — Avustaja — 50 kappaletta
Christmas Ghosts (1993) — Avustaja — 49 kappaletta
A Yuletide Universe: Sixteen Fantastical Tales (2003) — Avustaja — 41 kappaletta
Return of the Dinosaurs (1997) — Avustaja — 41 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6 (2021) — Avustaja — 41 kappaletta
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (1994) — Avustaja — 39 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018 Edition (2018) — Avustaja — 35 kappaletta
Polyphony 1 (2002) — Avustaja — 32 kappaletta
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Avustaja — 30 kappaletta
Global Dystopias (Boston Review / Forum) (2017) — Avustaja — 29 kappaletta
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 17, No. 4 & 5 [April 1993] (1993) — Tekijä — 14 kappaletta
Clarkesworld: Issue 086 (November 2013) (2013) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories (2019) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
Tor.com Short Fiction: July/Aug 2020 (2020) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 22 (2008) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 75 • August 2016 (2016) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 18 • November 2011 (2011) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Uncanny Magazine Issue 45: March/April 2022 (2022) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume Two (2023) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Apex Magazine 33 (February 2012) (2012) — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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Science fiction, feminist, underwater city?, Name that Book (maaliskuu 2012)

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I liked the premise (airports are all so alike that you can wander between them sometimes), and setting it against Amelia's mundane relationship and work problems added to the eerie feeling of unreality in the airports. The ending kind of underwhelmed me, though -- I was expecting Amelia to leave the underwhelming boyfriend behind since that's clearly what she wants, but instead she just takes him along to the other airport?
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lavaturtle | Jan 17, 2024 |
4.5 stars really. McHugh has such a gift for telling naturalistic, character-driven stories that are nevertheless intense and dramatic. Her books teach me so much about how to write SF.

Jan(na)'s story of loss and self-discovery on a colony world doesn't have a tidy plot or global stakes, but it is so memorable and rewarding—a study of character and culture in the tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin.
 
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raschneid | 12 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 19, 2023 |
A very sad SF novel about the obligations of culture, family, and situational necessity, set in a future Morocco. Hariba is biologically programmed to be an indentured servant; Akhmin is an artificial person bred to serve humans. They're drawn to one another, but even if they can find freedom, it's difficult for either of them to distinguish love from obligation.

I read McHugh's short story "Nekropolis" years ago and adored it. The prose is spare and beautiful and the characters are alive on the page. The novel, with its multiple points of view, is bleaker but more complex. Akhmin emerges as the most interesting character; his perspective is brilliantly alien, yet we empathize with them during his toughest decisions.

Additionally, I have now read a few romances featuring androids, cyborgs, etc. (hint: have written one) and I was so relieved that Akhmin had a complex inner life and was not merely an object on which our oppressed protagonist projects her fantasies of desire and control. (Obviously he's that too.)

The plot has the trademark McHugh elements of structural oppression, prolonged suffering, bad things getting worse, and characters muddling through to a possibly but not necessarily brighter future. It's probably her darkest novel, and I can't say I found the end totally satisfactory, partly because of the shape of the story. We never return to Akhmin's perspective, and the story felt incomplete without it.

Alas, I have now read every novel by one of my favorite writers! Someone pay this lady to write another book.
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raschneid | 13 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 19, 2023 |
This book didn't grab me until page 126, but I'm so enamored with China Mountain Zhang and McHugh's short fiction that I kept plodding along anyway.

McHugh does a great job creating an interesting near-future science fiction world and immersing readers in her characters' lives. David and Mayla spend the novel disoriented and traumatized. There's a definite pleasure reading about non-heroic characters dealing with tense situations in fumbling, human ways.

But the plot / pacing were muddled, and on top of it I suffered from false expectations - the back copy promised a "21st-century thriller" and "tropical adventure." (I don't know why I believe book jackets. Possibly a librarian bad habit.) I'm pretty sure adventure thrillers are supposed to be high concept; this novel wasn't high-concept at all, and often I felt a bit mired, watching the characters struggle moment by moment, not certain where the book was going or what the payoff was going to be.

If the novel had been more atmospheric or had a stronger narrative voice, it might have worked, but McHugh's understated, on-the-ground narration meant that it felt more like an intense but unwieldy fever dream. (China Mountain Zhang didn't even try to attempt novel-length pacing; instead it had a few related narratives, so this was her first published attempt.)

Sum up: Definitely a somewhat weak second novel, but was a fast, interesting read (after page 126!) and will certainly read more.
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raschneid | 8 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 19, 2023 |

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