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Sunday recs: Stories + novels

Dec 27, 2015

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Sunday recs! Featuring three delightful short stories, and two excellent novels. Tomorrow When We See the Sun by A. Merc Rustad (in Lightspeed) – a weird and cool space opera. A dark atmosphere but so beautiful. Merc’s worldbuilding is great, and I especially love how they use language. Poetic writing in prose <3 And the…

Sunday recs: art magic

Oct 18, 2015

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Sara Norja

in books, linkage, review, short stories

Have been way too exhausted to blog lately. Should learn better time management, or possibly just somehow learn how to be less busy… Anyway, small rec for today because I don’t want to get too badly out of the habit: Do Not Touch by Prudence Shen (with some charming art by Noreen Rana and Faith…

Sunday recs: Court of Fives and other stories

Aug 30, 2015

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Sara Norja

in books, discussion, linkage, poetry, short stories

Firstly: get yourself a copy of Kate Elliott’s newest book, Court of Fives. I finally got myself one and glommed the book in a few breathless sessions. I would’ve read it in a single day (I got halfway through in a few hours on my first reading session) but I was helping people move on…

Sunday recs: Diversity in SFF

Aug 24, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage

I just listened to a great episode of Tor.com’s Rocket Talk, with Kate Elliott and N.K. Jemisin discussing reader, writer, and publisher bias. So great to hear two intelligent writers talking about this stuff! Kate Elliott is one of my absolute favourite writers these days, and I also admire and agree with her thoughts about…

Sunday recs: Kate Elliott and Ursula Le Guin

Feb 16, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, novelette, short stories

To my intense delight, Kate Elliott posted a Valentine’s Day gift for her readers on her blog on Friday: a coda to her wonderful Spiritwalker trilogy (Cold Magic, Cold Fire, Cold Steel). Since it’s a coda, this novelette obviously contains massive spoilers. So, it will only make sense if you’ve read the trilogy. (If you…

Sunday recs: Zombies, gender fluidity, alternative families

Aug 4, 2013

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Sara Norja

in flailing, linkage, short stories

Time for Sunday recs! I’ve been reading some excellent stuff lately – poetry too, but let’s go for prose first. Story recs So, zombies are pretty much everywhere these days, but I haven’t actually read that much zombie fiction. (My consumption has been in the form of comics and films.) This story in Niteblade is…

Tag: kate elliott

Sunday recs: Stories + novels

Sunday recs: art magic

Sunday recs: Court of Fives and other stories

Sunday recs: Diversity in SFF

Sunday recs: Kate Elliott and Ursula Le Guin

Sunday recs: Zombies, gender fluidity, alternative families