This novella is going to be published this summer in the anthology Glitter and Mayhem - I got an early copy of it as my thank you swag for helping back the anthology on Kickstarter, and I think it's the nicest Kickstarter perk I've had yet! Set in the same InCryptid universe as Discount Armageddon this story stars Verity's little sister Antimony, she of the pit trap fame, as she investigates mysterious goings on in her roller derby league. I've only been to roller derby once, and I spent my firs...

Up front I supported the Kickstarter for this book and I also happened to win a review copy off of Goodreads. I was sold on this anthology mostly because of Seanan McGuire was in it and I enjoy her stuff. What I got was a great story by her and several other stories that were great and at least one I know will be on my Hugo ballot for short story next year. There were a few stories that didn't kick with me but that seems to happen in every theme anthology that read. As much as I thought all the

Glitter and Mayhem may only exist as an excuse to throw a glow-in-the-dark roller skating book release party at Worldcon—I am not exaggerating; that is literally how this anthology came about—but it does present a diverse collection of short stories about parties, roller derby, debauchery, glam aliens, sex, drugs, and so on. What's impressive is that the general "party" theme, however prevalent, doesn't feel repetitive, thanks to the authors' different takes and levels of adherence. Some stories...

I only bought this for Seanan Mcguire's contribution but I read it all and for the most part I loved it! It has introduced me to some new authors whose work I will be checking out in the future.Individual ratings are as follows:Sister Twelve... by Christopher Barzak -5/5 stars FAVOURITEApex Jump by David J. Schwartz - 4/5 starsWith her hundred miles to hell by Kat Howard - 2/5 starsStar Dancer by Jennifer Pelland - 3.5/5 starsOf Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane by Cat Rambo - 4/5 starsSooner...

This is a better than average anthology of original short fiction of a fantasy/science fiction nature with the unusual linking themes of disco, roller skating and derby, glitz and glam, glitter and mayhem that seems rooted in the last part of the previous century. None of the stories stuck out as being really bad, and several struck me as quite memorable. I liked the infusion of myth and fairy tale in the story by Christopher Barzak, the Bowie in the one by Daryl Gregory, the communication conce...

I can’t really top Amber Benson’s introduction to the anthology, Glitter & Mayhem, edited by John Klima, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas. She’s pretty much got all the eye-popping, funkadelic, trippy feel to each and every one of these stories down to the very bones. All I can really do is give you a repeat. These stories bend, twist, break just about every stereotype there is – gender bending, race bending, species bending, mind bending. It’s all in here. Between roller derby, roller sk...

The stories aren't bad, but the only stand-out entry is Sofia Samatar's "Bess, the Landlord's Daughter, Goes Out for Drinks with the Green Girl," which covers some of the same territory as Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox, but in a whirl of bars and flirtations and dancing and friendships and escapes that come too late. We are fascinated by beautiful dead girls; they take their revenge.I also liked: Tansy Rayner Robert's "The Minotaur Girls," where a girl needs to free her friends from the labyrinth of a...

I have read a lot of strange, weird, and bizarre fiction over the years, but I do believe Glitter & Mayhem may just be the oddest collection of stories I have ever come across. I'm not talking avant-garde or surreal, as is so often the case with Bizarro fiction, just plain old . . . well, odd. As you may have guessed from the cover, if not the title itself, this is sex-crazed, drug-fueled, glitter-drenched science fiction and fantasy that is firmly embedded in the disco-esque party scene.While s...

Simply an amazing anthology. Get off your ass today and buy an ebook or paper copy today. So much fun queer spec fic and general fun.

I am not quite there yet..meaning not done. My review is for just two of the stories, both of which I liked. But this features many stories and it maybe a book I read all the way through and may not be..right now I am picking the specific stories I like.These are all short Urban Fantasy stories with the common theme being Disco, Nightclubs, Nightlife, Dancing, Neon lights, Bars etc..with lots of strange stuff featured. It is not a genre I usually read much in.I remember many years ago, I saw a s...

Bad Dream Girl by Seanan McGuireI only read Antimony's short in this anthology so the rating is only for that. I plan to come back and check out the other stories over time.Antimony is a character that I'm intrigued with. I admit that I'm not in love with all the roller derby stuff but I do like how there's enough there to give me the picture on what is going on and not quite too much there to make me overly bored.As I already love the other two Price children (in this generation), I was glad to...

Skates on. Ante up.Myths, legends, 90s industrial music and roller derby. This book has a lot going on all at once. And so much of it makes you ruminate on the clubs of your own misspent youth*. At the same time, this anthology is what you always wished those clubs would be: secret fantastic portals where you really were the hero of a dark fantasy epic that made all that time spent picking out your outfit suddenly worth it. All anthologies are mixed bags, but what impressed me here was that the

I received a free copy of this book in return for a review, via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program.Little cinder girls, we're raised in fire.Either you melt and become the simpering thing you're supposed to.Or else you temper into something calloused and unbreakable.The book started off well, as the first couple of stories are two of my favourites. "Apex Jump" is a science fiction story about a roller derby team that gets invited to play a very unusual away match, while "Sister Twelve: Con...

Reviewed by: Rabid ReadsBad Dream Girl, InCryptid 2.22 stars As much as I love roller derby, I did not love this story.BAD DREAM GIRL felt like it was written to fill a anthology slot, and while it kind of was, McGuire writes for anthologies all the time, and it's always been meaningful to whatever world she's adding to.Not this time. It was all, "I don't wanna bore you with details,"--seriously, that was said at least three times--Antimony trying to figure out what kind of cryptid she was deali...

Requisite Humble-Is-For-Pies disclaimer: I have a story in this.Further disclaimer: I was having a very, very, very bad day when I decided to immerse myself in this book, and reading it went a long way towards making me feel like something more than a smear on the pavement.Furthest disclaimer: I know and love several of the people involved in the making of this book. So! I loved it. I did not love every single story, but I liked almost all of them, really liked a significant number, and outright...

Before I start this review, I should make one thing clear: I'm the least club-going, disco-loving person I know. I think I was in a club once in my whole life, but it was too loud, and the lights were too bright, and I left as soon as it was polite. I also can't dance, don't do drugs, and consider "a great party" to be one in which the cylons manage to destroy humanity during a game of Battlestar:Galactica. All these things should probably make me hate "Glitter and Mayhem" - an anthology of disc...

Anthologies are like eating mystery cake. Yummy chocolate with random add ins like caramel, butterscotch, raspberry, shrimp, feet, durian, pate, caviar, or okra. Some go well, some don't, and some just don't work in this combination.

A fantasy anthology with a lot of references to parties and roller skating.Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster - Christopher BarzakI liked this one. It's about 12 princes that escape through the floor of their castle to a hub realm from which they can go to dance parties in every imaginable time and dimension. One of them stays.Apex Jump - David SchwartzA very entertaining story about a roller derby team that gets recruited to an intergalactic bout many light years away.With Her Hundre...

This collection is so on-point, it's awesome. It's like being inside a Bowie song. Or, ALL the Bowie songs. Sometimes almost literally, what with all the Bowie references that pepper the stories. Some of the authors date themselves, e.g., tons of '80s references, but that is fine with me, as a child of the '80s myself. And for better or worse, the feelings and experiences captured and/or desired here are indeed kind of becoming relics of a past age. I didn't love all the stories, but I did love

I've wanted to read this for over a year, ever since I saw the table of contents on SF Signal. I didn't even know if I'd be able to get it, it was Kickstarted and I didn't know if it was something my library would end up getting, but I kept checking for a long time. I wasn't that into short stories at that point, I just wanted to read the stories by Seanan McGuire and Diana Rowland. In the last year I got hooked on short stories enough to be really excited about seven more of the authors, which