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Odd, strange and strangely satisfying! Anything said about the post of the story would be a spoiler, the same goes for themes. So I can just recommend that you seek it out and read it.
Read Nina Allan's story 'Angelus'. Wonderfully written, though it exists in that space between intriguing and frustrating; the world is so alluring that I wanted to know more.
This review only applies to "Homecoming" by Seanan McGuire.There is something uniquely American about the myth of the football player, be he in high school, college, or the big leagues. There's a powerful sense of that American myth in this story, which folds in a bit of Norse mythology as well to add a bit of meditation on what it really means to be a hero. And not just in the sense of being the star quarterback, either. This story is strange and sad and gentle, and I liked it enormously. Also,...
This is my first issue of Lightspeed and I really enjoyed it. I didn't read the reprints (except for the bonus story), just the original stuff (and associated author spotlights) and the interviews.Original sf: "The Schrodinger War" by D. Thomas Minton - sad and harrowing short story about a guy struggling with grief who joins a battle simulation, dying again and again, but hoping for the Big Dark (true death)."Dry Bite" by Will McIntosh - refreshing take on zombies: not living dead, but possesse...
Homecoming is a creative and affecting story about heroes and what happens to them when they fall during the course of duty. It's a weird conceptualisation of what happens after death, but interesting.
This was a beautiful modern take on the Valkyrie sorting of the warrior dead. I quite enjoyed it, and would love to see some of the other battlefields mentioned.
Average issue, but I believe I'll be coming back to reread Bellweather and the Kaslo story, And Then Some.
At first, I thought this was going to be a Fighting Pumpkins story, but it's not. It is a very Seanan story, without meaning that in a negative way, sitting firmly in the wheelhouse of things that she likes to write about. It's an okay story, an enjoyable story, without being a remarkable story.
“Homecoming” by Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire hits another one out of the park (okay, I should have thought of a football idiom, but I'm not the writer). In this story of a mythic fall football game, Seanan will make you cry. It's just a short story. Go and read it now.
“Fighting doesn’t always mean winning,” says Rona, still crouching in front of the fallen warrior. “Sometimes it just means doing the best that you can do, and hoping that when the scores are tallied, that’s enough to put you on the winning side.”I don't like short fiction. I am usually left at the end with all these questions. I want to know more about the world and the characters. I feel that five or six pages isn't enough to explore a world as much as I want. But Homecoming was different. Per...
why yes I'm listening to Lightspeed's podcast while cleaning. :) I should probably rate this higher because it totally made me tear up, but instead I'm thinking about the particularly North American style (conflation, really) of heroism and football that underlies the story. Not that that makes it bad; the cultural specificity actually helps the story. It's just an interesting assumption that makes me wonder about how this would play out in other cultural contexts.oh, oh, OH, the model of herois...
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This review and rating are (for now) solely for "And Then Some" by Matthew Hughes, which opens the author's Kaslo Chronicles science-fantasy series. This novelette is a pretty near perfect Jack Vance-style planetary romance, available at http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fic... Jack Vance fans (like me) are almost certain to enjoy the story, and I will be reading on in the series.The author gives a preview of the series and other influences at http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/non...And a number...
This collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories has a mix of both original and reprints that vary in quality. “Dry Bite” by Will McIntosh is an interesting take on zombie stories, one that focuses on the survivor’s interactions with their deceased loved ones, and was such a good read. D. Thomas Minton’s “The Schrödinger War” hides the main character’s pain inside an endless loop of war, and really underlines the horror of both. “Ragged Claws’ by Lisa Tuttle was just okay, with the f...
