One of those collections that makes you repeatedly slap down your hand and say, "Yes! Why aren't more stories like this?" Rich, textured, fresh, real. Yes!

Overall a diverse cast of characters and stories that were interesting and sometimes intense. I enjoyed the diversity. 1. 2⭐️ a little too off the beaten track, it made little sense to me. 2. 3⭐️ a sad story, which I read directly after another sad story. I don't think I was ready emotionally. 3. 4⭐️ a fascinating tale, is this from Indian folklore? 4. 4⭐️ a different perspective of 'war' and how it affects the family when the 'damaged' soldiers come home. 5. 4⭐️ a fascinating look at the menta

More accurately a 3.5 - some stories are of better quality than others, naturally, and some niggles with the formatting that I hope are fixed at publication time. Full review in RT Bookreviews Magazine.

Excellent Anthology! I loved The Ogres of East Africa by Sofia Samatar, Collected Likenesses by Jamey Hatley, Nine by Kima Jones, A Deeper Echo by David Jon Fuller, Jooni by Kemba Banton and Find Me Unafraid by Shanae Brown. The stories that I liked were awesome because they dug deep into issues of history, resistance, and the repercussions of actions of the past on our futures. These collection consists of stories of historical trauma using speculative fiction tools to fight back or to highligh...

I was excited to read this collection: while my reading in general is quite diverse, my fantasy reading isn’t so much (there are far fewer options), so this book seemed like a great chance to discover new authors. Also, I love historical fantasy. But as it turned out, while most stories in the collection are well-written in a technical sense, I didn’t enjoy them. After taking more than a month to struggle through the first 13 (out of 27), I skipped ahead to read 3 more by well-known authors or t...

Here are 27 different ways of resistance :D5 stars for Each Part Without Mercy by Meg Jayanth Because I like magic dreams, feminist killjoys, and rebellious girls.(The "zh" in the protagonist's name should probably be pronounced / ɻ /. Good luck with that.)5 stars for Knotting Grass, Holding Ring by Ken LiuBecause it is about a super smart super awesome unsung hero sex worker5 stars for A Wedding in Hungry Days by Nicolette BarischoffBecause I never imagined such healing was possiblelots of the

If I could exclude the few stories that made me think WTF!?, I would give this 5 stars. I loved the concept - stories from places, times, and people not usually written about, marginalized or forgotten. However, I have a love/hate relationship with anthologies, as I always read with an eye for my preferred narrative styles and with almost 30 writers, there's no guaranteeing I'll like more than half of what I find. So I always start anthologies looking for the tipping point, when buying the book,...

This is BRILLIANT! Amazing, refreshing stories with diverse protagonists. It took me so long to finish because most stories were like reading a whole book that I had to take time to think about before continuing. So hard to pick favorites, the editors have done a great job. If you like historical fiction and fantasy, you will love this!

I’m actually only partway through this anthology so far, but I’m having a fascinating time while reading. The voices are as diverse as the editors proclaimed, the vocabulary rich, and the assorted magic systems and other fantastical elements so far have a lot of emphasis placed on dreaming. I can’t tell yet whether that last element’s due to editorial bias, something that non-Western stories have in common, the product of small sample size, or simply what happens when the author/main character e...

Get. This. Collection.

Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History shines a light on marginalized figures throughout history. Each story opens with a time and place, and reading this anthology is almost like taking a trip in the TARDIS, bouncing back and forth throughout history and around the world, witnessing lifestyles and cultures you may be unfamiliar with. While the majority of stories occur in the late 19th century or early 20th century, they do go as far back as the 1500s.While I enjoyed and a...

Wow. The opening story by Sofia Samatar is great -- the best I've yet read from her. And my friends may remember how much I liked her Selkie Stories Are for Losers. 5 stars for "Ogres" even though I would have loved it to go on longer and have something more happen.(My only disappointment is that the ogres discussed are, as far as I can tell, made up by the author rather than actual folklore, so I can't research them.)I didn't like Thoraiya Dyer's "The Oud" as much, but that may be a combination...

"We grew up reading stories about people who weren’t much like us. Speculative fiction promised to take us to places where anything was possible, but the spaceship captains and valiant questers were always white, always straight, always cisgender, and almost always men. We tried to force ourselves into those boxes, but we never fit. When we looked for faces and thoughts like our own, we found orcs and deviants and villains. And we began to wonder why some people’s stories were told over and over...

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Interesting anthology featuring fantastical histories of events and people you don't read about in mainstream history. As with any anthology like this, some stories are more successful than others and there are stories that are amazing next to stories that seem like they're missing a few paragraphs of exposition or which have the fantasy elements shoehorned in. But that doesn't mean they're not all worthwhile reads; I was inspired to look up or rethink my knowledge of a number of historical even...

Long Hidden is a collection that demands to be read, featuring a host of wildly memorable characters that burst onto the page to tell their own history. This is speculative fiction at its finest.

Beauty of #LongHidden is that it's a prism; some faces are windows, some are mirrors, others are portals. The faces shift for each reader.[Full Review]

I received this book as a reward for supporting the kickstarter project that made it possible. "Most written chronicles of history, and most speculative stories, put rulers, conquerors, and invaders front and center," the editors wrote in the project description. "People with less power, money, or status—enslaved people, indigenous people, people of color, queer people, laborers, women, people with disabilities, the very young and very old, and religious minorities, among others—are relegated to...

I'm biased, obviously, because I have a story in this anthology. BUT: regarding everyone else's stories in Long Hidden, I have to say they are all fantastic and many of them are gut-wrenching, beautiful, and elegant. Some make you feel you have stepped into the world of a fully-fleshed out novel, though they're only short stories; others just give you a glimpse of a historical moment that nevertheless provoke you to think about events in a new way. I felt I'd gotten an education in untold or ign...

I must confess that I did not read every story, as my copy was a loaner and I lollygagged too much before having to give it back, but of the 14 the stories I did read, 10 of them were very, very good. My favorites were by Rion Amilcar Scott, Kima Jones, Sofia Samatar, and Benjamin Parzybok. I will be obtaining my own copy soon enough to finish the anthology. Very good stuff.