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Belle, 2021 animated movie from Japan about a girl whose VR avatar becomes a famous singer in a VR world. The best movie about Twitter I've ever seen, which isn't saying too much since it's also the only movie about Twitter I've ever seen, but, like, a nice story about the possibility of human connection in both online and offline spaces, and some cool visuals.
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Feb. 12th, 2023 10:02 pmFinally watched Spider-Man: No Way Home (household is finally done having covid/isolating from the 13yo who never tested positive this time around). I enjoyed it, I thought they did some neat stuff, but it definitely felt like a "long spear" work in the sense that it was relying on a lot of other prior works for its impact to land. I don't think that's bad, necessarily - when it's done well, it's very cool! Someone tells a whole series of stories and builds them up to a point that couldn't hit without all that spear behind it! In this case I don't think I really got the full impact that a more dedicated spider-fan might have, but I got enough - they helpfully recapped some key points re the Andrew Garfield movies, which I never saw - and I liked the plot overall. ( Read more... )
(Also I was convinced that this was a 2022 movie and I was getting a jump on my Hugo watching, but apparently it was a 2021 movie and just missed being on the ballot last year. I guess if I want to watch something for this year I need to watch Wakanda Forever...)
(Also I was convinced that this was a 2022 movie and I was getting a jump on my Hugo watching, but apparently it was a 2021 movie and just missed being on the ballot last year. I guess if I want to watch something for this year I need to watch Wakanda Forever...)
Monstress 6: The Vow
Jun. 28th, 2022 05:26 pmMonstress 6: The Vow. Last time I said I wasn't sure whether this series was going anywhere. ( Read more... )
DIE another day
Jun. 27th, 2022 11:24 pmActually DIE 4: Bleed and also DIE 3: The Great Game. (previous thoughts about DIE) Hopefully it is not a spoiler to say that I admire Gillen for sticking to the "20" motif and limiting himself to 20 issues. I am old and cranky and forgetful, I don't want to slog through a sprawling soap opera over the course of a decade, I want a limited, definite story that gets to an end before I've completely lost track of the beginning, thank you!
Everything else I will put under a spoiler cut. ( Read more... )
Everything else I will put under a spoiler cut. ( Read more... )
Far Sector
Jun. 25th, 2022 01:40 pmFar Sector, N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell. I did not expect to get much out of this - previous DC or Marvel franchises written by big names from the SFF prose world have generally not done much for me (McGuire's Ghost Spider, Okorafor's Black Panther, Ahmed's Black Bolt). But in fact I really liked it! I think a big part of that is how Jemisin's story sits within the franchise - instead of writing about an existing character and expecting people to already care about the character (and maybe be familiar with their whole dang backstory), Jemisin uses the most general details of the Green Lantern universe that even I knew (Corps, rings, power to manifest glowy green things) to set up a new character in a new setting, and puts all the reasons to care right there on the page I was actually reading (and not some other page I was supposed to have read in some other book earlier). I thought basically everything here was really well done - the main character, the alien world with its three very interestingly different alien species, the central conflict of the big arc and the pacing and specifics of how it played out issue-to-issue. I am not very far into my Hugo Graphic reading but I think I'd be pretty happy to see this win - it seems like a really good example of how it's possible to tell interesting standalone stories within an established franchise, by being willing to develop original material instead of just rehashing the same tentpole characters all the time.
A couple of specifics behind a spoiler cut: ( Read more... )
A couple of specifics behind a spoiler cut: ( Read more... )
Lore Olympus vol 1
Jun. 23rd, 2022 03:59 pmLore Olympus Volume One, Rachel Smythe. In theory I should be very excited that there was something on the Hugo Graphic Novel ballot that wasn't just the same old stuff! In practice I didn't get much out of this. I have read so many different versions of Greek mythology and I didn't really get any sense of what in particular Smythe is trying to say about these characters or stories. Maybe we just haven't gotten there yet - this is apparently "episodes 1-25" and the comic seems to be up to 199 online - but nothing here made me particularly interested in reading seven times more of it. And there's something very... same-y about all the character designs, like, I know that's unfair given that they're dramatically color-coded, but if they weren't color-coded, I'm not sure I could keep track of who was who, and I mostly can't tell who anyone is going to be before the comic names them despite extensive familiarity with the mythology. I dunno, maybe I need to read a review of it from someone who really loves it to open my eyes to what's great about it?
2022 Hugo short fiction
Jun. 10th, 2022 04:31 pmAcross the Green Grass Fields, Seanan McGuire. Unicorn farming was a cute gag, but the rest didn't really add up to much for me. But now I get to rank novellas! And then, while I'm at it, novelettes and short stories.
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Elder Race
May. 10th, 2022 10:21 pmElder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky. I had three other Tchaikovsky novellas on my maybe-read list but the Hugos nominated this one. I was not super into it - I feel like I've read a lot of takes on this trope, and this one did not particularly stand out to me, and I never really connected with or cared much about the characters. One more novella and I get to close another category though!
Light From Uncommon Stars
Apr. 22nd, 2022 09:31 pmLight From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki. The last of the Hugo Novel nominees. I mostly enjoyed this - it's a bold move to ( Read more... ), and I appreciate Aoki going for it - but I found the writing a bit clunky and repetitive. Content note for one of the main characters (a trans woman) experiencing a lot of really ugly real-world-realistic transphobia (and sexual assault) (and survival sex work).
I guess I get to rank novels now! ( Read more... )
I guess I get to rank novels now! ( Read more... )
Project Hail Mary
Apr. 19th, 2022 03:28 pmProject Hail Mary, Andy Weir. This is not a sequel to The Martian in fact - it's 100% a standalone - but it is definitely a sequel in spirit, or, y'know, a return to a set-up that Weir knows works. Which to be clear I think is a totally valid choice - he gets to play with a fun premise, and write a book that will entertain millions of people! Win-win! I was one of those people! I got briefly bogged down somewhere around 75% but the whole thing up to that arc and after was extremely slickly readable, hard to switch away from. (I'm dealing with my library avalanche by reading simultaneously rather than sequentially, it suits my attention span.) Do I think it was one of the six best sff novels this year? No. But does it surprise me that it was also one of the six most popular sff novels this year? Also no. Do I think it can win, I don't know, I'm not going to try to predict anything until I've finished Light from Uncommon Stars. It is definitely on the very-old-school "omnicompetent geekboy does a lot of math, discovers some fun unobtainium and plays with various implications" end of the sff spectrum - think Have Spacesuit Will Travel or various Asimov short stories - and I feel like that's not so much Hugo voters' favorite thing these days, maybe. But it is fun.
Iron Widow
Apr. 17th, 2022 11:44 pmIron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao. I had strongly mixed feelings about this book, and rather than try to decide which of them are spoilery I'm going to park the whole thing under a cut. I will say that I think you might like it if you really liked The Hunger Games. ( Read more... )
A Spindle Splintered
Apr. 12th, 2022 08:47 pmI'm still chugging along in Iron Widow (about halfway) but the library was like "here, maybe you want everything all at once!" and I was like "oh hey novellas are fast" so I took a little side-jaunt into Alix Harrow's A Spindle Splintered, thus officially checking the first thing off my list of Hugo reading I hadn't already done yet. This is an extremely meta story about a terminally-ill folktale scholar who discovers the ability to travel the folktale metaverse and attempts to help a Sleeping Beauty in a fairytale world. I thought it was fine - very readable, and I'm always a sucker for best friends as the central emotional relationship (might appeal to people who liked that aspect of Team Human) - but, I don't know, not that memorable or anything. We were so rich in novellas last year, but I've been repeatedly underwhelmed this year. (Maybe I'm just not picking the right ones...)
two Paladins
Mar. 29th, 2022 07:53 pmI like to save Ursula Vernon books for when I need them, so, uh, yeah, that's how it's going. But they were of course all the things I wanted - funny and engaging and clever and heartwarmingly full of brave noble people. I reread Paladin's Grace because I wanted to remember what did and didn't get resolved about the heads (these are romances but there's also a lot going on with murders and such. rather more severed heads than in many romance novels.). Paladin's Strength is a more direct sequel - new couple but picks up some of the plot threads - while Paladin's Hope is a little more standalone (and also a new couple). I definitely recommend them all if you've liked any of the White Rat world books, or if you like Vernon in general, or fantasy-adventure romance at all. Strength is het, Hope is m/m. It sounds like Vernon is planning to do books about the remaining four paladins (we've now covered three of the seven), which, yay, and also I have high hopes that two lady paladins could mean getting both an f/f couple and a f/m couple with a non-fighting dude. Fingers crossed!
The Actual Star
Mar. 27th, 2022 06:04 pmThe Actual Star, Monica Byrne. This book was fascinating and had a ton going on but before I say anything else about it I want to throw out a significant content note for self-injury, child harm, ritual mutilation and sacrifice, animal mauling, eye trauma, claustrophobia, and threat of drowning. Squeamishness is very personal so ymmv but I felt like there were some scenes that were kind of a lot. (But please feel free to ask for more specifics if you're trying to figure out whether you want to try this one.)
So, okay. This is literary science fiction consisting of three interwoven stories - one set in 1012 Belize about a pair of Mayan royal twins and their little sister, one set in 2012 about a tourist girl from Minnesota and two Belizean tour guides, and one set in 3012 about two people with opposing visions for their culture. It's about travel, and tourism, and Place. How religions develop, and the role of chance in history, and the question of individual choice and control vs environmental and subconscious factors. Byrne is very interested in a question I also find interesting, whether civilizational collapse from climate change has to be a regression or whether it could be a kind of progress, or could enable progress. Byrne in interviews has talked about Dispossessed but I think it's also very much talking to/with Always Coming Home. I would also recommend it to people who liked Years of Rice and Salt, or some of the recent explorations of, uh, utopia-aspiring futures in the at-least-semiautomated gay space communism direction (Record of a Spaceborn Few, The Unraveling). Or people who liked Byrne's first book, The Girl in the Road (which I wrote about here)! Byrne is looking to be the Helene Wecker kind of author who produces something brilliant and meticulous every 7-8 years and I will definitely hope we get another new book in 2028ish.
A bunch more detail about various things behind a spoiler cut, but one more note first, which is that at certain points there's a bunch of dialogue in Belizean Kriol, which made certain chapters very slow going. It's totally readable by sounding it out, but for me that was more like deliberate decoding than automatic literacy, and thus work. (Ugh, work.) There's also some scattered Spanish but my Spanish, while very limited, is good enough that I could more or less "just keep reading" those parts instead of hitting the decoding wall. I'm sure there are reasons Byrne did this and why she did so much of it but to me it was a little too much. On the other hand there was definitely a point where I was like "dang is the whole rest of the book going to be like this" and it wasn't, that was the peak of it, so, uh, take heart?
And now all the rest of my random thoughts behind this cut. ( Read more... )
So, okay. This is literary science fiction consisting of three interwoven stories - one set in 1012 Belize about a pair of Mayan royal twins and their little sister, one set in 2012 about a tourist girl from Minnesota and two Belizean tour guides, and one set in 3012 about two people with opposing visions for their culture. It's about travel, and tourism, and Place. How religions develop, and the role of chance in history, and the question of individual choice and control vs environmental and subconscious factors. Byrne is very interested in a question I also find interesting, whether civilizational collapse from climate change has to be a regression or whether it could be a kind of progress, or could enable progress. Byrne in interviews has talked about Dispossessed but I think it's also very much talking to/with Always Coming Home. I would also recommend it to people who liked Years of Rice and Salt, or some of the recent explorations of, uh, utopia-aspiring futures in the at-least-semiautomated gay space communism direction (Record of a Spaceborn Few, The Unraveling). Or people who liked Byrne's first book, The Girl in the Road (which I wrote about here)! Byrne is looking to be the Helene Wecker kind of author who produces something brilliant and meticulous every 7-8 years and I will definitely hope we get another new book in 2028ish.
A bunch more detail about various things behind a spoiler cut, but one more note first, which is that at certain points there's a bunch of dialogue in Belizean Kriol, which made certain chapters very slow going. It's totally readable by sounding it out, but for me that was more like deliberate decoding than automatic literacy, and thus work. (Ugh, work.) There's also some scattered Spanish but my Spanish, while very limited, is good enough that I could more or less "just keep reading" those parts instead of hitting the decoding wall. I'm sure there are reasons Byrne did this and why she did so much of it but to me it was a little too much. On the other hand there was definitely a point where I was like "dang is the whole rest of the book going to be like this" and it wasn't, that was the peak of it, so, uh, take heart?
And now all the rest of my random thoughts behind this cut. ( Read more... )
two 2021 Valente novellas
Mar. 24th, 2022 06:31 pmComfort Me With Apples, Catherynne Valente. Spoiler cut. ( Read more... )
The Past Is Red, Catherynne Valente. An initial novelette, "The Future Is Blue", from a 2016 Strahan anthology, and then a sequel novella. The premise is that people are living on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which has been condensed and sorted into various themed areas based on type of garbage, like pill bottles and candles and e-waste. I kept being bothered by things like how many kinds of trash there were that wouldn't have floated, or how on earth they could possibly be doing enough agriculture to support the population even with extensive fishing, and had to remind myself that that really wasn't what Valente is doing here. It's a postapocalyptic fairy tale, a riff on Waterworld, an argument with Elon Musk, the math doesn't have to work. (But then, the math never has to work, as long as you're too caught up to think about it, so maybe the problem was that I wasn't.) There is an interesting core here about civilizational collapse and how the survivors might think about it and their current lives, but the running gags about the neighborhood names and artifact-interpretations kind of wore on me.
The Past Is Red, Catherynne Valente. An initial novelette, "The Future Is Blue", from a 2016 Strahan anthology, and then a sequel novella. The premise is that people are living on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which has been condensed and sorted into various themed areas based on type of garbage, like pill bottles and candles and e-waste. I kept being bothered by things like how many kinds of trash there were that wouldn't have floated, or how on earth they could possibly be doing enough agriculture to support the population even with extensive fishing, and had to remind myself that that really wasn't what Valente is doing here. It's a postapocalyptic fairy tale, a riff on Waterworld, an argument with Elon Musk, the math doesn't have to work. (But then, the math never has to work, as long as you're too caught up to think about it, so maybe the problem was that I wasn't.) There is an interesting core here about civilizational collapse and how the survivors might think about it and their current lives, but the running gags about the neighborhood names and artifact-interpretations kind of wore on me.
Victories Greater Than Death
Mar. 18th, 2022 09:34 pmVictories Greater Than Death, Charlie Jane Anders. An interesting project - writing a non-imperialist/colonialist space opera (or maybe I mean an anti-imperialist/colonialist space opera) that still hits a lot of the standard space opera beats. Can we imagine a non-hierarchical Starfleet. What if the Progenitors were giant bigots. Can our plucky teen cast of exceptional teens save the day and also sort out their love lives. Book one of a trilogy, and very much felt like the first season of a sci-fi teen drama. I enjoyed it overall - there were definitely parts where I was like "oh, this is fun!" and also some parts where I was like "hm, this is clearly supposed to be fun, but am I actually having the fun". But also a genuinely creepy murder superpower for the antagonist, and I liked the climax, and would recommend it on the whole. It's on the Nebula ballot this year and I would not be at all surprised to see it on the Hugo ballot too.
2021 SFF - misc
Mar. 5th, 2022 12:03 pmWrapping up this year's online short sff recommendations! These come from various places - the Locus list, recommendation lists from Quick Sip Reviews and Speculatively Queer, and random recs I came across somewhere.
For Lack of a Bed, John Wiswell, Diabolical Plots. A woman with chronic pain and an unusual magical artifact/creature.
A Minnow, or Perhaps a Colossal Squid, Carlos Hernandez and C.S.E. Cooney, Mermaids Monthly. Transfiguration as debtors' prison. This is neat.
All Worlds Left Behind, Iona Datt Sharma, khōréō. Wow, I loved this. My favorite portal fantasy I've read in awhile.
AP Practical Literary Theory Suggests This Is A Quest (Or: What Danny Did Over Spring Break), Isabel J. Kim, Cast of Wonders. Cute light story about some teenagers who do not want to be on a quest.
So your grandmother is a starship now: a quick guide for the bewildered, Marissa Lingen, Nature. A short cute piece about later-in-life transition of a sort.
Sleep and the Soul, Greg Egan, Asimov's. A railway accident and the development of anesthesia in an alternate-universe 19th century where humans don't sleep. NOVELLA. (Note: this link may not work past nomination season.)
The Case of the Teapot of Enlightenment, Anya Ow, Translunar Travelers Lounge. A detective-priest investigates a missing teapot.
Broken Idols, Guarded Hearts, Elizabeth Loupe, Translunar Travelers Lounge. Two ex-goddesses at a support group, a vaguely Sandman feel. F/F.
Treedom, A.J. Cunder, Metamorphosis. Some kids and a dude who is a tree.
Nine-Tailed Heart, Jessica Cho, khōréō. A breakup and a gumiho. F/F.
Sorry We Missed You!, Aun-Juli Riddle, khōréō. A traveling restaurant spaceship and the intertwining of food, memory, and family.
(I'm excited about khōréō; I didn't read all their 2021 stuff, but they're fundraising right now and I just subscribed.)
The Enchanted Gardener, Jessica Yang. Magical plants and asexuality and ghost grandmas, yay!
Unknown Number, Azure, screenshots on Twitter. A powerful story about alternate selves told in an interesting format.
5:37, A.P. Howell, Translunar Travelers Lounge. The Ring vs an archivist.
You'll Understand When You're a Mom Someday, Isabel J. Kim, khōréō. Motherhood and bargains.
For Lack of a Bed, John Wiswell, Diabolical Plots. A woman with chronic pain and an unusual magical artifact/creature.
A Minnow, or Perhaps a Colossal Squid, Carlos Hernandez and C.S.E. Cooney, Mermaids Monthly. Transfiguration as debtors' prison. This is neat.
All Worlds Left Behind, Iona Datt Sharma, khōréō. Wow, I loved this. My favorite portal fantasy I've read in awhile.
AP Practical Literary Theory Suggests This Is A Quest (Or: What Danny Did Over Spring Break), Isabel J. Kim, Cast of Wonders. Cute light story about some teenagers who do not want to be on a quest.
So your grandmother is a starship now: a quick guide for the bewildered, Marissa Lingen, Nature. A short cute piece about later-in-life transition of a sort.
Sleep and the Soul, Greg Egan, Asimov's. A railway accident and the development of anesthesia in an alternate-universe 19th century where humans don't sleep. NOVELLA. (Note: this link may not work past nomination season.)
The Case of the Teapot of Enlightenment, Anya Ow, Translunar Travelers Lounge. A detective-priest investigates a missing teapot.
Broken Idols, Guarded Hearts, Elizabeth Loupe, Translunar Travelers Lounge. Two ex-goddesses at a support group, a vaguely Sandman feel. F/F.
Treedom, A.J. Cunder, Metamorphosis. Some kids and a dude who is a tree.
Nine-Tailed Heart, Jessica Cho, khōréō. A breakup and a gumiho. F/F.
Sorry We Missed You!, Aun-Juli Riddle, khōréō. A traveling restaurant spaceship and the intertwining of food, memory, and family.
(I'm excited about khōréō; I didn't read all their 2021 stuff, but they're fundraising right now and I just subscribed.)
The Enchanted Gardener, Jessica Yang. Magical plants and asexuality and ghost grandmas, yay!
Unknown Number, Azure, screenshots on Twitter. A powerful story about alternate selves told in an interesting format.
5:37, A.P. Howell, Translunar Travelers Lounge. The Ring vs an archivist.
You'll Understand When You're a Mom Someday, Isabel J. Kim, khōréō. Motherhood and bargains.
2021 SFF - Lightspeed Jul-Dec
Mar. 3rd, 2022 11:51 amInnocent Bird, Rachel Swirsky. Didn't quite do what I wanted it to do, but was interesting enough to mention.
The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries, Meg Elison, Lightspeed. Food service workers and the question of who would actually be worse off under new robot overlords.
Stowaways, Andrew Dana Hudson, Lightspeed. Flash piece about infectious artwork.
Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias, Elly Bangs, Lightspeed. Utopia and escapism and change. This is a feelgood story but, you know what, I did feel good, and I liked it, and it's very nicely written. F/F.
Entanglement, or How I Failed to Knit a Sweater for My Boyfriend, Carrie Vaughn, Lightspeed. Fun story about the boyfriend sweater curse and how clothes work over wings.
Top Ten Things to See Before the World Burns, Aimee Ogden, Lightspeed. A survivor of one catastrophe tours memorials of others.
The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries, Meg Elison, Lightspeed. Food service workers and the question of who would actually be worse off under new robot overlords.
Stowaways, Andrew Dana Hudson, Lightspeed. Flash piece about infectious artwork.
Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias, Elly Bangs, Lightspeed. Utopia and escapism and change. This is a feelgood story but, you know what, I did feel good, and I liked it, and it's very nicely written. F/F.
Entanglement, or How I Failed to Knit a Sweater for My Boyfriend, Carrie Vaughn, Lightspeed. Fun story about the boyfriend sweater curse and how clothes work over wings.
Top Ten Things to See Before the World Burns, Aimee Ogden, Lightspeed. A survivor of one catastrophe tours memorials of others.
It Gets Even Better
Mar. 2nd, 2022 10:38 pmI enjoy a themed anthology, and manage to read about one a year. It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility is a fun 2021 anthology edited by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin with a mix of reprints and originals. My favorite story was definitely Amy Griswold's "Custom Options Available", which is not surprising given that it was one of my favorite stories of all of 2020. A bunch of the other stories by authors I had already heard of were also good - Charlie Jane Anders has one about transitioning at 100, Nibedita Sen has one about going to prom on an animatronic dinosaur, and Zen Cho has one about past versions of yourself (that I had also read before). Of the new stuff, I think the standout was Kristen Koopman's "Frequently Asked Questions About the Portals at Franks' Late Night Starlite Drive-In". I also liked Swetha S.'s "uncharted territories", where a leaf is a ticket to an unusual kind of travel, and Ben Francisco's "The After Party". (I don't think of myself as usually a fan about stories about an afterlife, but I found this one moving.) Anyways, good stuff; maybe I will manage to read the 2022 anthology from the same editors while it's still 2022??
2021 SFF - Short Stories Shortlist
Mar. 1st, 2022 10:54 amAs with the novelettes, I am still reading, but I wanted to go ahead and post some favorites/likely nominees. I will edit this post as I find more.
Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station, Ann LeBlanc, Mermaids Monthly. An original and compelling take on time loops.
All Us Ghosts, B. Pladek, Strange Horizons. The Truman Show meets helicopter parenting meets the labor market? Layered and bleak and really good.
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.
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.
All Worlds Left Behind, Iona Datt Sharma, khōréō. Wow, I loved this. My favorite portal fantasy I've read in awhile.
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Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias, Elly Bangs, Lightspeed. Utopia and escapism and change. This is a feelgood story but, you know what, I did feel good, and I liked it, and it's very nicely written. F/F.
Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station, Ann LeBlanc, Mermaids Monthly. An original and compelling take on time loops.
All Us Ghosts, B. Pladek, Strange Horizons. The Truman Show meets helicopter parenting meets the labor market? Layered and bleak and really good.
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.
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.
All Worlds Left Behind, Iona Datt Sharma, khōréō. Wow, I loved this. My favorite portal fantasy I've read in awhile.
ETA:
Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias, Elly Bangs, Lightspeed. Utopia and escapism and change. This is a feelgood story but, you know what, I did feel good, and I liked it, and it's very nicely written. F/F.
