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Reposting due to new short fiction review added. Reviews first posted on Fantasy Literature:3 stars - "Magnifica Angelica Superable" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz. A woman walks into a café, red-faced from the cold, her laughter and her rage. She yells at the men sitting at a table, eating and drinking away the evening. She then throws the furniture and the men out of the café and has a long chat with the waiter, telling him that things are going to change, that men are going to have to get over their
The electronic version of the magazine makes it difficult to record progress. I think my favorite this month was "Finding Home" by A. Merc Rustad, who does not appear to have a Goodreads profile. It is not the very first story I've read where the point of view character was trans (I think that was a short story I read about time travel and a transboy who names himself "Heron" that I can't find right now). But it might be the first where the main character is trans and it doesn't actually have ve...
Small medicineGenevieve Valentine Robots to replace the dead 8/10The one who isn'tTed KosmatkaCreepy revenge story, jilted wide turning to AI to replicate a son who was never her's. 7/10Hello againSeth FriedInteresting idea where the universe stops expanding and starts compressing again, leading to another expansion in repetition. As the story puts it, the universe 'breathes'. People remember this and history repeats over and over and humans remember this. 8/10. 5x5Jilly DreadfulSummer science c...
LeVar Burton Reads, Episode 52, Small Medicine by Genevieve Valentine
3.5 StarsThere were a couple of standout stories, but for some reason this issue didn't impress me much. (Then again, the previous issue, POC Destroy SF, was a doozy and it's hard to follow that up!)Some very brief thoughts:"The One Who Isn't" by Ted Kosmatka - 3.5*Almost 4*, except I thought the ending wobbled a tiny bit; otherwise, defied my expectations."5x5" by Jilly Dreadful - 3.5*Loved the epistolary format and the premise, but not the writing."Small Medicine" by Genevieve Valentine - 4*I