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Row 4, 4 down SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY, 216 pages
I have read about half the stories but am setting this collection aside for now. I might return to finish it later. I do like a few of the stories very much, and others ... not so much. They are consistently clever and frequently funny but the tone of all of the stories is that of detached amusement which, given that they are about women in various life-changing contexts, is underwhelming. Perhaps inevitably, I began to feel detached and indifferent too, because the women of Emshwiller's creatio...
If you want to know what all the fuss is about, start with this collection.
It look cool
Quite a quirky and unusual collections of stories that are not easy to categorize, but are very good and thought provoking. Published by The Women's Press, the cover says science fiction, they won a fantasy award and they are most certainly feminist. A few are clearly science fiction, sort of, but they reflect on life and society now. Some are just straightforward short stories that are easily set in our present, many are open ended and have no obvious setting. Having said that, these are good s...
やっと読み終えた。半年前からぼつり、ぼつり、短篇集なので、少しずつ。やはり私にはＳＦは難しい。奇想天外なＳＦ的要素が強いと、しらけるのだ。字面を追うだけで、作品世界に入り込めない。大事なのは「心の動き」なのに、道具ばかりが目についてしまう。でも、比較的ＳＦ色の薄いこの本は読めたと言える。 好きなのはまず、最後のWisCon Speech。これを読めただけで、望外の喜び。この日本独自の短篇集を編んでくれた出版社に感謝。ウイスコン大会がどんなところなのか、どんな解説書よりわかるのでは？ それからよかったのは Secrets of the Native Tongue と Prejudice and Pride. エムシュウイラーは楽しい人だ。そして１９２１年生まれなのに、いまだ謙虚な人だ。こんな人なら友だちになってみたい、と思う。９０歳になる大好きな伯母とダブった。
This anthology is frequently dark and disturbing. It goes into some psycho-social places I for one like to avoid. It is full of the irrational- desires and cruelty and various asymmetries of power (which at times get turned on their heads). There is tragedy, inevitable break-down and pain and the reoccurring themes seem to be the ageing female body and smallness. The characters in these stories frequently make choices between the rational and commonplace and the mythic "other". These choices are...
Yay feminism and animal rights! This book was full of unexpected perspectives, spellbinding weirdness, and startling clashes of everyday life with myth and history. The book ends with an exceptionally modest postscript explaining the writer's creative process. I put it down thinking that Emshwiller must be a very wise and compassionate person, to have crafted so many beautiful and haunting stories. She's able to speak truth to power while being entertaining and not at all heavy-handed.
I honestly don’t know how to rate this. You read one story after another and you’re wondering if it’s still the same author. There’s always something unexpected that the character will do or decide on. But by the end of the last story in this book, you’ll know. Like everything revealed but not written in every end of each story.
This shit will blow your mind. Artfully, poetically, written. humanist spec/sci fiction. Just enough humor and absurdity to keep you smiling--but tragically beautiful stories. I can't recommend this collection of short stories highly enough. She will blow you away!
In these stories Emshwiller’s style tends to the intellectual and reflective, and always told with a female slant on the world. Very few are straightforward narratives but all of them are intriguing – and well written. The Start of the End of it All is an alien invasion story. “‘Politics,’ they say, ‘begins at home, and most especially in the kitchen’” - a good place for a revolution to start. But first they have to get rid of the cats. The aliens seem to have targeted divorced, post-menopausal
Most of these stories are 5s.
