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Sunday recs

Mar 13, 2016

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Three powerful stories this Sunday: A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, by Alyssa Wong (on Tor.com). This story about weather-bending sisters and apocalypses is quite personally painful for me. But good, so good! Not an easy story, but very much worth the read. Makeisha in Time, by Rachael K. Jones (in Crossed Genres).…

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: Diversity in SFF

Aug 24, 2014

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Sara Norja

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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: 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: Romance, domesticity and demons

Nov 17, 2013

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Sara Norja

in linkage, nanowrimo, review, short stories

Long time no recs! So, here’s some stories I’ve read in the past few months but have not recced. (On the Nanowrimo front, there is not much to report. I’ve been too lazy and tired to work on my novel edits, I’ll admit – but today I managed to get a bit done. Will try…

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…

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Sunday recs

Sunday recs: art magic

Sunday recs: Diversity in SFF

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

Sunday recs: Romance, domesticity and demons

Sunday recs: Zombies, gender fluidity, alternative families