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I read this cause my friend Chi gave it five stars - it was excellent and well worth the read!find it here https://www.tor.com/2016/12/14/the-au...Totally awesome comeuppance and I would devour a whole book of this character and her world.
5 stars. Incredible combo of historical fiction and fantasy, and one of the best of the (usually outstanding) Tor shorts I've read.Read it for yourself here: https://www.tor.com/2016/12/14/the-au...
A short e book with a compelling story. I liked the lead, who was realistic and original. I did get confused when it came to the whole magic thing. But overall, I enjoyed it.
Wow. What a wonderful short story this was. Such beautiful language. Now I need to read this author's book The Ten Thousand Doors of January.5 stars
Strange and wonderful -- I loved this short story and am looking forward to reading the authors novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, when it comes out.
This is the story of a woman that can tame the land by holding it in place with her mind long enough for surveyors to pin it down permanently. I really enjoyed this concept and would have liked to see more from it minus most of the adjectives that were used. I felt they distracted from the story instead of adding to it. When every sentence is heavy with at least two or three extra bits of sugar the dessert story is only good for the first few bites. Not many want to stick around to lick the plat...
Wow. This is one of the things I love about anthologies, that they are so often filled with perfect gems from authors I would not otherwise encounter. Alix Harrow's story is set in an alternative America where the land is resisting colonisation, where the native peoples have a connection with the land that, Mythago Wood-like, confound attempts to force settlement - but, while into the early 20th Century the United States has barely reached the Mississippi, it still seems that the technology and
WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT!last year, amy(other amy) tipped me off to this cool thing she was doing: the short story advent calendar, where you sign up to this thingie here and you get a free story each day. i dropped the ball and by the time i came to my senses, it had already sold out, so for december project, i'm going rogue and just reading a free online story a day of my choosing. this foolhardy endeavor is going to screw up my already-deep-in-the-weeds review backlog, so i don't think i w...
Historical, mildly fantasy, this short story is nonetheless heartbreaking and evocative of the whole Company Town mentality. More than anything, it is the drive to live and survive despite being under the power of so many other forces beyond your control that makes this such an emotional tale.Let's just tack on a decade of forced labor because you're not doing your job. Shame on you for not putting the needs of US over YOU.Of course, this is absolutely about being marginalized, so beware or forw...
3.5 stars. Oona is a mapmaker. A traitor who is born of two worlds. She is the East and the West, and leads expeditions of men intent on claiming her homelands for themselves. The only thing keeping her grounded is her sick brother, and the exploitation of this by the expedition leader. But Oona longs to escape, to run free to explore and reclaim what is hers by right. The writing is beautiful, lyrical but not overly done. I also liked Oona and her relationship with her brother. They share a clo...
Wow. This should have won things. Very powerful story of a mapmaking 'half-breed' woman and the taming of the West.Along the lines of "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience," but better.Does contain footnotes which I found rather distracting. Not sure what Harrow was going for with them (shreds of white legitimacy?). Since it was published in 2016, I'll blame the terrible influence of such books as Jonathan Strange.https://www.tor.com/2016/12/14/the-au...Thanks to Tadiana Night Owl for the...
Ooooh, that was one very, creepy read. I loved it! (Especially the comeuppance - nice!)
This had moments of extreme beauty and wonder, and others that made me very uncomfortable - not in the story as such, but in the approach to it. Though there are shared experiences and parallels, the context of colonisation is different here than on Turtle Island, which is the land this story appears to be based on, and I cannot speak to those experiences. But there are comments on the original story that put words to some of my unnamed discomfort and I suggest reading those for nuance. Still re...
The writing is fantastic, as expected, the world very vivid and lots of fun (the footnotes, the alternate universe), though I ended up feeling slightly disappointed with plot or themes (Colonialism and exploration is oppressive to natives. Nice when they can escape it). But the bar set by some of her other short stories is incredibly high so my disappointment, if that is, is only in that context, by everybody else I would be looking for her backlist.
