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A great issue of a great magazine. My personal favourites are the steampunk “Technarion” by Sean McMullen and the virtual reality (something very '90s now, almost vintage!) “Daddy's World” by Walter Jon Williams. In fact I've enjoyed quite a lot the “giant bubbles” in Cixin's story, the sci-fi “horror” of “Union” and I was amazed by “Morrigan in Shadow” by Seth Dickinson , both by its plot and also because I had read its “antecedent” (“Morrigan in the Sunglare”) and by pure chance I purchased th...
Yuanyuan's Bubbles— by LIU CIXIN, translated by CARMEN YILING YAN —Charming story about what drives us forward in life and a lesson about choices and how they shape our lives. Sci-fi of ideas, another great story by Liu Cixin.Can be read here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_1...
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Clarkesworld rocks. New speculative fiction. Translated specfic. Classic scifi. Articles. Author interviews. What's not to love! I subscribed a few years back after meeting Neil Clarke at Capclave. You should subscribe, too!
very beautiful. the imagery is so amazing.the amount of story liu(/translator yan) squeezes into such a short length is really quite incredible. (i have to admit, when i first started reading it, i thought the language sounded kind of stilted, but-- as the story picked up pace, i was just blown away, just like the bubbles)
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Overall, the stories were...meh. Nothing really all that exciting. But that cover! Wowza! I am in lurve!I did enjoy:“Morrigan in Shadow” by Seth Dickinson“Technarion” by Sean McMullen
Full review available here : https://thecurioussffreader.wordpress...Good issue overall. My favorites are the stories by Liu Cixin, Sean McMullen and Walter Jon Williams.
Most were OK, but I very much enjoy Seth Dickinson's "Morrigan in Shadow".
Holy hell boys. This was A Ride."She rolls her shoulders and arms her coilguns and starts killing the things come to kill her."I loved the continual mortality questions and the really really big world shifting questions that this piece posed. And I loved the entire bit about all the Simms and the Laportes and how Humanity Stands. The continual struggle between monstrosity and humanity is just my absolute favorite."But she is all those things now. Born from the tragedy of a war as unnecessary as
“Yuanyuan's Bubbles” by Liu Cixin, translated by Carmen Yiling Yan
Tried "Morrigan in Shadow" by Seth Dickinson, confusing mil-SF. I didn't care for the previous Morrigan story either. Oh, well. Left unrated.May come back to this issue and try more.... In the sweet bye and bye. Who am I kidding? I can't even keep up with the award nominees!
This is the first full edition of this magazine which I have read in a LONG time and I'm definitely glad that I signed up for more. Several stories really, really worked for me, but the ones that didn't were intriguing. I liked the broad range of the stories and also the freedom of the structure where neither length nor genre guided the arrangement. I like reading stories in an order specifically created by an editor.I wasn't mad about the non-fiction pieces so hopefully that will improve in fut...
Starke Ausgabe zum Abschluss des Jahres mit tollen Geschichten von Liu Cixin und Seth Dickinson.
"Yuanyuan's Bubbles" by Liu Cixin ★★★★
Yuanyuan's Bubbles by Liu Cixin is available on the magazine website for free :)
My Christmas Present to me I enjoy short stories so I got myself a subscription to Clarkesworld Magazine. I started off with the December issue. I had read a few stories on their site previously but decided for $2.99/month I can treat myself to the whole thing. A short story has to grab the reader and involved them in very few words, like a comic only without the added help of art work. These issues do have a few renderings that make the feel of Science Fiction and Fantasy more pronounced. Iss...
Very interesting Chinese SF short story about the girl Yuanyuan, who is obsessed with soap bubbles and her birth city in the desert. Many interesting topics are highlighted, like desertification, boom time construction, and most interestingly intergenerational cultural differences. The descriptions were extremely vivid, but for me the highlight of the story was the generational clash, and I wish it hadn't been so neatly resolved. Merged review:Yuanyuan’s Bubbles" by Liu Cixin (translated by Carm...
