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This is a fantastic anthology that has its authors and stories strongly reflect the diverse and interesting stories of the Mediterranean Basin, and give those stories new and exciting twists and reinterpretations. Part of the fun of reading these stories is trying to tease out just which myths, legends and stories that these SFF stories are based upon--the end matter of the book reveals all, but I counsel you that half the fun is the "aha" moment, of reading anf seeing how old and sometimes fami...
Classic myth meets feminist spec fic in this crunchy, challenging anthology.My favourite stories were the most science fictional: Furies on Mars! Argonauts in space! But I found them all all thought-provoking, providing fresh interpretations of some of our oldest stories.
I’m giving each story one sentence in review or summery to be fair!Distant campfires, eternal beacons: this is our introduction, most concerned with the whys these stories might and should be told.Into the wine-dark sea: a poem, not an epic like original Greek myths but two pages of words lovely without needing sheer imagery Sirens: on a space station in the far flung future, an ai war and a wave threaten to swallow everything alive there, also there’s kissing nantiesHide and Seek: a myth I reco...