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Powerfully written short stories with creative twists and lots of queer chars. Each short story is a perfect little morsel that would fit easily into a larger series.
These are some very elegant, philosophically charged science fiction/alt history love stories. My favorites: "The Gift," about an off-world tour guide writer's tragically misconstrued love affair, and "The Héloïse Archive," a wonderful novella consisting of a series of newly-discovered letters from Héloïse d’Argenteuil to Peter Abelard that, along with showing Abelard's darker side, chronicles a miracle at the Paraclete Oratory that changed the direction of history.
Really stunning short stories. Picked it up randomly at a Seattle bookstore, and was delighted to find it woven with queer and feminist themes, offer that certain breath-taking edge of unreality, and have nuanced and haunting themes. From what I have learned since, L. Timmel is hot stuff in scifi land, with a keynote as 2008 WisCon, and editing a few anthologies I've since stumbled across. Ranks among the better science fiction/fantasy writers around these days, and a woman I'd love to have for
Science-Fiction stories of varying quality. The best is a alternate history / time-travel rewrite of Heloise and Abelard, which was awesome in form but maybe a little too purely feminist wish-fulfillment Utopian for me in content: ("See, if we just went back and fiddled with the Church at the right time, it would all come out right ...")
An enjoyable collection of short stories. Recommended particularly for anyone with an interest in feminist SF and medieval history-- the Abelard and Heloise story is worth a read.
