Nommed for '19 Hugo, this short has everything a meme-starved young girl could ever dream for. The heroines are, of course, Raptors, and the idiot Ape-King is a temporary fancy. :) Quite funny and timely for those of us still watching Jurassic World and similar. :)Talking points? Nothing much except the focus on female-gender heroes and monsters being the protagonists. Again, humorous, but not much else. Tickled my ragged funnybone. :)

"The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat" by Brooke Bolander:Women = Good.Men = Bad.There, I saved you from having to read it.

The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters - 4 ¼ stars The only fairytale, to date, that I've enjoyed. It's all down to the awesome narrator, Mama Raptor extraordinaire!

“Good morning to you, old mother!” said the guard at the drawbridge. “Are those apples for the King?”The first old woman looked down at her basket, then back up at the guard.“YES,” she said in a loud, croaking voice. “FRUIT FOR THE SHINY APE KING’S FLAT TEETH.”“MAMMALS LOVE FRUIT,” her sister added, nodding emphatically.The elderly were often saying such things, so the guard took no mind. Funny, original, and everything good that I've come to expect from Brook Bolander.

“The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat” by Brooke Bollander. “SQUEAK SQUEAK. CRUNCH. THEY CRUNCH SO GOOD.” Brooke Bollander of the Talons that Crush Galaxies, I bow to thee. Why, you ask? Because:Best title ever. +Matriarchal dromaeosauridae.+Cheerfully moronic prince who doubles as steak tartare.+RRKKKKKKKT!+Canny, asocial princess in no bloody shrimping distress whatsoever.+ Hahahaha.+Now that’s what I call a HEA!=Best fairy raptortale ever.Thi...

It’s the dinosaur issue: 8/10 stories are related through the Ingen, I mean the Owen Corporation. I love the idea but overall it was a low three stars with nothing memorable.Red Lizard Brigade by Sam J. Miller ★★★★☆ Brutal start! Russia is building a dinosaur army with wormhole technology to conquer the West. Lovers find themselves at crossroads when one wants to defect.The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat by Brooke Bolander ★★★★☆ "And they lived ha...

***The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat by Brooke Bolander***Nice little fairy tale that’s basically about female empowernment.It’s quite humorous, sometimes a little bloody, and ultimately pretty satisfying.I loved the roles of the Princess and the Prince in this one. Albeit for very different reasons. ;) And then there are the raptors, of course. RLLLL? *nods* RLLLL!Hugo 2019 nominee for Best Short Story.You can read it here: https://uncannymagazi...

Now, the King’s subjects knew all about this particular forest, and avoided it like the plague, and if the Prince had thought to ask them they could have easily told him why this was so. If you know a blessed thing about royalty, however, you’ll have already guessed that he had bothered doing no such thing. What an absolute delight this was! Three raptors and a princess against an awful prince.

Of course I didn't read the whole magazine, silly. But I did read Brooke Bolander's fabulous story, 'The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat.' Think Ursula Vernon crossed with someone a bit darker and bloody (although she's gone there herself lately). It's a modern and welcome riff on a fairy tale, told as a story to a listening youngster, one presumes.https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...Humans are very soft and spook easily. One brush with fangs in...

The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of MeatBY BROOKE BOLANDER | 8654 WORDSEntertaining take on fairytales, with unusual protagonists.“Once upon a time, long, long, long, long, long, long, ago, there were three raptor sisters, hatched beneath a lucky star. They lived in a wood together, they stole sheep and cattle together, and all in all, there was no tighter-knit hunting pride of matriarchal dromaeosauridae between the mountains and the sea.“Nothing too s...

The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat is a 2019 Hugo Awards finalist in the Best Short Story category. This was a predictable but fun fairytale featuring three raptor sisters, whose names translate into human as Allie, Betty and Ceecee. They are a “hunting pride of matriarchal dromaeosauridae”. The youngest sister, Ceecee, encounters a bumbling Prince and his stead while hunting in the forest and as a result the sisters’ happy lives get more complica...

Review for: The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat by Brooke Bolander Oh this is SO GOOD. It's funny and sharp and I would like to befriend a raptor sister please and thank you.

A fairy tale told from the monster POV.I found it a bit perturbing that the monster POV equals the feminist POV.....

I. Loved. This. Story. So. Much!The story is just as ridiculous(ly awesome) as the title of the story, and I usually hate stories where nasty tyrants and such get no comuppances. It's definitely not a problem here. *grin*

WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT!this explanation/intro will be posted before each day’s short story. scroll down to get to the story-review.this is the FOURTH year of me doing a short story advent calendar as my december project. for those of you new to me or this endeavor, here’s the skinny: every day in december, i will be reading a short story that is 1) available free somewhere on internet, and 2) listed on goodreads as its own discrete entity. there will be links provided for those of you who l...

Contender for a 2019 Hugo: A story of sisterly love that gets 5 tasty, stupid princes from its beautifully feathered and gloriously fanged raptor-ous audience.

The humor was very well done, I certainly had more than a dozen chuckles and one or two loud laughs, but other than that there was nothing much to its mundane plot.

"The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Price Who Was Made of Meat" by Brooke BolanderI actually got anxious reading this story worrying about the princess and the three raptor sisters, so that's a win.I received this story as part of the 2019 Hugo Voters Packet.

A dinosaur fairy tail? Sold!

A special dinosaur themed edition of Uncanny Magazine (which I took out a subscription to this year)! This was a lot of fun and the stories were of a consistently high quality. My favourites were:The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat by Brooke Bolander - an interesting twist on a traditional fairy-tale By Claw, By Hand, By Silent Speech by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry & A. Merc Rusted - a deaf researcher creates a bond with a dinosaur she’s studying using sig...