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Rating and review for Vina Jie-Min Prasad's Black Flowers Blossom.No clear plot, just a bunch of monster erotica with graphic sex (tentacles included) and vague hard-boiled detective work. Or maybe I am too stupid to understand what it meant. Oh well. I did not enjoy it. I usually love the author's work.
"Black Flowers Blossom" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad is on my list of the Best Short SFF of November 2019: https://1000yearplan.com/2019/11/30/t...
Review is for Black Flowers Blossom, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad. A detective and his eldritch lover come together in multiple lifetimes - more graphic than I was expecting, but also surprisingly touching in places. Find it online here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/b...
Rating for "A Time To Reap" by Elizabeth Bear
Highlights of this issue for me included:-"A Time to Reap" by Elizabeth Bear (time travel, complicated time lines, beautifully written)-"Black Flowers Blossom" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Fantasy, detectives, inter-species love across time and lives) -"Without Prayer of the Place in the Forest" by Sonya Taaffee (poetry) -"The Science, Fiction, and Fantasy of Genre" by Alexandra Erin (essay)
A Time to Reap by Elizabeth Bear was a very solid time travel story, probably even better for people from the US: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a...
Time travel to ... the late 1970s? It's actually pretty good. This is a review for "A Time to Reap," nominated for a Locus award. My review was first posted on Fantasy Literature. This novella is free online here at Uncanny magazine. In this time-travel novella, Kitty Whelan, a petite 16-year-old actress in the year 2028, is playing the part of 12-year-old Sissy in the play Time to Reap, based on a real-life series of unsolved murders that took place in 1978 at the Abbott family reunion. The cas...
Not my favourite issue as a whole.Preferred stories were “A Time to Reap” by Elizabeth Bear and “Black Flowers Blossom” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (both for reading and in audio). The essay on the ‘Joker’ was also thought provoking.
This review is solely for Elizabeth Bear's "A Time to Reap"4.5 stars, one of my all-time favorites of Bear's short fiction. Love it and would like to one day have it in a print short story collection of hers.
It’s a wooden box,ornately carved, beautifullystained a dark mahogany.It’s dry as I lift it upand gently slide out thetongue-and-groove top.I started with Annie Neugebauer's 'The Wooden Box', which was really good. Read here.
Review & rating solely for "A Time to Reap" by Elizabeth Bear, https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a...A well-done time-travel and murder-mystery novella, and I think you are better off going in cold & just reading it. Like all time-travel stories, it doesn't really make sense, and the ending gets even muddier. But a helluva story. Elizabeth Bear's writing just keeps getting better & better. Strong 4 stars, highly recommended, especially for Bear fans.I saw it in Jonathan Strahan's list of recom...
Review is only for Black Flowers Blossom, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad available here https://uncannymagazine.com/article/b... . I have now run out of her short stories to read (there are two I have not read which seem to be only available in print in rare anthologies but not chasing those...) and I do love her dense universes and characters and this kind of romanticism.But this was wow, confusing. I reread parts and wow still confusing (view spoiler)[ love story between a Lovecraftian supernatural be...
I really liked the novella A Time to Reap by Elizabeth Bear, the rest of the stories didn't do a whole lot for me.
This review is for Jenn Reese's "A Mindreader's Guide to Surviving Your First Year at the All-Girls Superhero Academy"A very short and sweet story that is sort of what it says on the box (That title, y'all! Who could resist it?), but is mostly an optimistic examination of first love and deciding what kind of person you'll be. Recommended if you like superpowered coming-of-age stories.
I read A Time to Read (4 star) and Black Flowers Blossom (5 star) from this issue.
A very uneven issue for me. "A Time to Reap" by Elizabeth Bear was a solid 4.5*, I love a good mystery in SF and throw in some well done time travel paradoxes, I will eat it up. Vina Jie-Min Prasad's story was also excellently written, as I expected, but fatally flawed by the pretty graphic monster sex content which just wasn't my thing. I'll remember that story, for sure, but mainly because of the whiplash between "so good" and "oh god not my thing".The remaining stories either felt incomplete,...
Fiction A Time to Reap by Elizabeth Bear: 3.5/5Nutrition Facts by D.A. Xiaolin Spires: 2.5/5Black Flowers Blossom by Vina Jie-Min Prasad: 1/5Peridot and Rain by Laura Anne Gilman: 2/5A Mindreader's Guide to Surviving Your First Year at the All-Girls Superhero Academy by Jenn Reese: 3.5/5 Non-fiction The Page and the Prose: Writing Between Prose and Comics by G. Willow Wilson: 4/5The Science, Fiction, and Fantasy of Genre by Alexandra Erin: 4.5/5If You've Heard This One Before by Brandon O'B
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