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2021 SFF - Clarkesworld Jan-Jun
Feb. 16th, 2022 11:54 pmClarkesworld publishes so many words a month! Which is good if you like words, but less good if you are trying to read all the words in a compressed time period because you've been saying for years you're going to start doing this a different way but haven't yet.
Anyways!
Deep Music, Elly Bangs, Clarkesworld. A fun story of alien contact. F/F.
Terra Rasa, Anastasia Bookreyeva, transl Ray Nayler, Clarkesworld. A Russian retreat to the North story from 2018, I guess in this case more of a "flight to the North". I'm deeply interested in retreat-to-the-North stories from non-North American perspectives - I would love to see someone do an anthology of works in translation on that theme. Or, even better, Retreat to the Poles - Perihelion Summer is totally a Retreat to the Poles work, which suggests there must be more - although I am also specifically interested in how people in the global south might think or write about retreat-to-the-North.
Mercy and the Mollusc, M.L. Clark, Clarkesworld. This isn't a Nausicaa fanfic but it's not *not* a Nausicaa fanfic if you know what I mean. (I know authors don't like having their work described like that, but honestly a story immediately becomes so much more meaningful to me if I make that kind of connection or put it in that kind of context. Sorry, authors.) Anyways, this is a cool thing about terraforming and a friendship/working relationship between a human and a giant snail, and also about getting older and reaching new stages of your life and looking back on your choices. NOVELLA
Mamaborg's Milk and the Brilliance of Gems, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Clarkesworld. SFnal breastfeeding/pumping.
Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self, Isabel J. Kim, Clarkesworld. Emigration and the divided self. An intriguing magical-realism premise well-executed.
55 Plaque, Isabel Lee, Clarkesworld. Alien contact, cults, difficult family relationships. NOVELETTE
Sarcophagus, Ray Nayler, Clarkesworld. An explorer on a distant planet, an encounter. Tense and vivid. NOVELETTE
Best-Laid Plans, David D. Levine, Clarkesworld. A mouse researcher on a space station (owned by a small liberal-arts college!) faces A Problem. Manages to not be too cute, and it was fun to see this type of scientist get to solve this type of problem.
Vanishing Point, Robert V.S. Redick, Clarkesworld. Displacement and dissent and defection and return. Arty and moving. F/F. NOVELETTE
Bots of the Lost Ark, Suzanne Palmer, Clarkesworld. Secret Life of Bots sequel!! Yay! I think it's better if you remember the details of that one, which you can read/reread here. NOVELETTE
Anyways!
Deep Music, Elly Bangs, Clarkesworld. A fun story of alien contact. F/F.
Terra Rasa, Anastasia Bookreyeva, transl Ray Nayler, Clarkesworld. A Russian retreat to the North story from 2018, I guess in this case more of a "flight to the North". I'm deeply interested in retreat-to-the-North stories from non-North American perspectives - I would love to see someone do an anthology of works in translation on that theme. Or, even better, Retreat to the Poles - Perihelion Summer is totally a Retreat to the Poles work, which suggests there must be more - although I am also specifically interested in how people in the global south might think or write about retreat-to-the-North.
Mercy and the Mollusc, M.L. Clark, Clarkesworld. This isn't a Nausicaa fanfic but it's not *not* a Nausicaa fanfic if you know what I mean. (I know authors don't like having their work described like that, but honestly a story immediately becomes so much more meaningful to me if I make that kind of connection or put it in that kind of context. Sorry, authors.) Anyways, this is a cool thing about terraforming and a friendship/working relationship between a human and a giant snail, and also about getting older and reaching new stages of your life and looking back on your choices. NOVELLA
Mamaborg's Milk and the Brilliance of Gems, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Clarkesworld. SFnal breastfeeding/pumping.
Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self, Isabel J. Kim, Clarkesworld. Emigration and the divided self. An intriguing magical-realism premise well-executed.
55 Plaque, Isabel Lee, Clarkesworld. Alien contact, cults, difficult family relationships. NOVELETTE
Sarcophagus, Ray Nayler, Clarkesworld. An explorer on a distant planet, an encounter. Tense and vivid. NOVELETTE
Best-Laid Plans, David D. Levine, Clarkesworld. A mouse researcher on a space station (owned by a small liberal-arts college!) faces A Problem. Manages to not be too cute, and it was fun to see this type of scientist get to solve this type of problem.
Vanishing Point, Robert V.S. Redick, Clarkesworld. Displacement and dissent and defection and return. Arty and moving. F/F. NOVELETTE
Bots of the Lost Ark, Suzanne Palmer, Clarkesworld. Secret Life of Bots sequel!! Yay! I think it's better if you remember the details of that one, which you can read/reread here. NOVELETTE
