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This collection of short stories draws you into a liminal world where reality is both sensual and porous, inhabited by principled people who love life and hate injustice. The stories cover several centuries, from the medieval period to the near future and often shed light on little-known histories through the characters present at the time, or through contemporary seekers who get close to something bygone and lost. This isn’t to say we’re overloaded with nostalgia or loss, though there are a few...
"Resonance & Revolt" is a book rich in history and culture, but is very modern in its concerns. Rosanne Rabinowitz draws a line between then and now. There's nothing antiquated or abstract about the past in her work- it's alive and ever-present. Medieval activists lie side by side with modern scholars, Jewish protesters bend space to seek an alien Golem and a woman walks through the past in her pink patent leather boots (I found the latter story, "These Boots", particularly joyous and life affir...
This is a collection of stories out of the ordinary. What fascinated me about Rosanne Rabinowitz’s collection was the setting, looking at the spirit of resistance throughout time, from the heretics of medieval Europe to near history, present and near future. As well as the fine stories, I was struck by the coherence of the book, which danced with the theme of Resonance of emotion, of music and of Revolt expressing what it is to take action and move beyond the constraints of what is expected of u...
https://www.oddlyweirdfiction.com/201...It's sad that I read this so long ago and haven't actually had time to post about it, because I can't help but want to share the excellence of this book. I read somewhere that the author thinks of this book as a "melancholic merging of social realism and the strange," and that is an absolutely spot on description. There is just something about this collection of stories that makes me want to buy a gazillion copies of it, then hand it out to people and tel...
Resonance & Revolt. From Didcott to Didactic, a grail or Rosannation for socialist outreach but made even more palatable as percolated by truth and inspirationally infused by the book’s creative tapping of histories, myths and alternate visions, transfigured from rustblind through to silverbright. Some very important stories in this book transcending any didacticism. And a gestalt of them all that will be enduring. And a book cover that sings out with all these things.The detailed review of this...
Originally published at Risingshadow.Rosanne Rabinowitz's Resonance and Revolt is one of the best short story collections of the year, because it's a deeply satisfying and rewarding reading experience. It's a must-read collection for everybody who loves literary and intelligent speculative fiction, because it's different, captivating and thought-provoking.I was deeply impressed by this collection and found it utterly compelling. It's an intriguing re-imagining of what the world could be like, bu...