2021 SFF - Beneath Ceaseless Skies Jan-Jun
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psocopteraBast and Her Young, Tegan Moore, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Institutional memory and the way women get forgotten.
Quintessence, Andrew Dykstal, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This is a good old-fashioned Problem Story - miners, in a harsh environment, facing A Problem. Really well-done, tense and non-obvious the whole way. NOVELETTE.
Parchment Sky, Stephen Case, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Reminds me a lot of that Ted Chiang Tower of Babylon story.
Concerto for Winds and Resistance, Cara Masten DiGirolamo, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A rare negative comment! I was really into this story but I felt that the open ending was a cop-out. I'm not anti-open-ending in general (although I guess it is rarely my favorite thing) and I do see what the author was probably trying to do with it, but it came off like a long tease and then a fizzle, and I was irritated enough to want to complain about it, so.
A Stranger Goes Ashore, Adam R. Shannon, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Hoooly shit. This is like half an argument about climate collapse and space exploration and half Junji Ito.
Quintessence, Andrew Dykstal, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This is a good old-fashioned Problem Story - miners, in a harsh environment, facing A Problem. Really well-done, tense and non-obvious the whole way. NOVELETTE.
Parchment Sky, Stephen Case, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Reminds me a lot of that Ted Chiang Tower of Babylon story.
Concerto for Winds and Resistance, Cara Masten DiGirolamo, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A rare negative comment! I was really into this story but I felt that the open ending was a cop-out. I'm not anti-open-ending in general (although I guess it is rarely my favorite thing) and I do see what the author was probably trying to do with it, but it came off like a long tease and then a fizzle, and I was irritated enough to want to complain about it, so.
A Stranger Goes Ashore, Adam R. Shannon, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Hoooly shit. This is like half an argument about climate collapse and space exploration and half Junji Ito.
