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Women Destroy Science Fiction! (in which I also blather about other books)

Jun 3, 2014

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in books, flailing, linkage, personal babble

Lightspeed Magazine’s special issue Women Destroy Science Fiction! is now available as an ebook! Huzzah! I just got myself a copy and am super excited about reading it. Wow! Such awesome, much destruct, so women. So much to read! In addition to this special issue of Lightspeed, I’ve got the following books on my bedside…

Sunday recs: Two poems, two stories

May 18, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, poetry, short stories

Long time no Sunday recs. In my defence, the past month or so was intensively filled by doing PhD applications. Last weekend was my first in ages when I was free to do non-academia stuff, so I shamefully neglected my blog. But now! Rec time! First let’s have an invocation to The God of Lost…

Sunday recs: A bunch of lovely poetry from Goblin Fruit

Apr 6, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, poetry

I had so many poems from Goblin Fruit marked as “rec this” that I thought I’d put them all in the same goblintastic post. They’re from the newest issue as well as a couple of the older ones. The Vow of Frozen Time by Alexandra Seidel, from the Winter 2014 issue. The language in this…

Sunday recs: Post-apocalyptic beauty

Mar 30, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, short stories

Just one rec today; I’ve been unreasonably exhausted lately. Green is for Silence, Blue is for Voice, Red is for Whole, Black is for Choice by Damien Angelica Walters, in Daily Science Fiction. This post-apocalyptic vision is beautifully written. I read it a while ago while eating a delicious lunch; for some reason the story…

Sunday recs: Mundanity, elephants, opera and a coffee shop

Mar 23, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, short stories

This week’s Sunday Recs presents four very different stories – all of them awesome. (Well, duh, otherwise I’d hardly be recommending that you read them!) Relentlessly Mundane by Jo Walton. This was published in Strange Horizons 14 years ago, but I only just found it while looking for, like, everything that Jo Walton has written…

Niteblade Fundraiser 2014

Mar 22, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, promotion

Niteblade is a great fantasy/horror magazine, with an awesome mix of prose and poetry in each issue. And now it’s time for the annual fundraiser. If you want to help Niteblade continue doing its awesome thing, consider donating a few (or more) dollars at the fundraising campaign site here! In addition to feeling good about…

Sunday recs: Four poems

Mar 16, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, poetry

Poems! I’ve been writing a poem a day for the past week, so today’s recs are poetry too. Tintagel, by Beth Langford (in Goblin Fruit). The language and imagery in this poem are just gorgeous! Tesseract: A Parent’s Guide to Time Travel, by Kimberly Gladman (in Wild Violet). A lovely homage to Madeleine L’Engle’s A…

Sunday recs: Speculative prose and two issues’-worth of poetry

Mar 2, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, poetry, short stories

I was thinking of posting a rant about how difficult writing fiction in Finnish is for me (I was attempting such a thing last night), but I think I’ll go for Sunday recs instead. How my bilingualism comes across in my writing is a topic I want to write a more thoughtful post on. So,…

Sunday recs: Two SF stories

Feb 23, 2014

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Sara Norja

in linkage, short stories

I’ve been reading some pretty awesome SF stories lately. Here are two favourites from Strange Horizons: The Serial Killer’s Astronaut Daughter by Damien Angelica Walters. This near-future (I assume!) story set in a space station orbiting Earth treads the borderline of speculative and mainstream pretty neatly. Also, Aliens references FTW. 🙂 The Long Road to…

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…

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