Wind Will Rove is an unusual, thoughtful novelette, recently nominated for the 2017 Nebula award (and so far my favorite in that category). Free PDFs available on Asimov's and on the author's website (probably just temporarily, until the Nebula is awarded in May 2018). Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:Rosie, the 55 year old narrator, is a history teacher on board a generation ship that has been voyaging through space for the better part of a hundred years, and will be traveling for many...

Review for Wind Will Rove by Sarah PinskerWhat can we learn from history? Do we need to learn from history? When do the lessons that we can learn stop mattering for our present lives? And how does life develop, when that history is lost forever and you loose touch with the past and your ancestors?This felt too much like a mental excercise, a philosophy lesson. I didn‘t care about the characters, the musical evenings or the kids‘ essays.I read 34 of 66 pages and skimmed the rest. Not my kind of s...

Always must give 5 stars to stories that make me cry. *shakes fist* (It was when the narrator asks her grandmother about what she left behind on Earth when she left on the generation ship. *queue sobbing from me*)

I suspect this story won't appeal to everyone, but I thought it did a great job of discussing the role of history in society. Set on a generational starship, the question arises as to the relevance of the history of Earth when the many generations in the future finally find and colonize a new planet. I'm not sure the story really adequately answers the question, but it does make the reader think, which is the hallmark of a good story. I can understand the perspective of the young people who were...

Real Rating: 4.5* of fiveA meditation on memory, an examination of societal disasters, a paean to performing as art and as science. Fourteen thousand six hundred words about what loss does to people's lives, to their innermost structural members. And not a subtle reminder that any outside storage medium for our vitally necessary stories cannot be solely and eternally relied upon to do our work for us.We are human and, in no small part, that requires us to be creators of worlds and ideas and real...

(I've read and rated a few novellettes and short stories in the last few days, but this is the first one that moved me to leave a review, in spite of the risk that GoodReads will decided this is not a proper independent text and shouldn't have an entry, and delete.)I'm not familiar with that many Sarah Pinsker stories, but the few I've read so far have made quite an impression on me. And of all of them, "Wind Will Rove" is the new favourite. This story about a generation ship (and the generation...

Interesting premise: a generation ship. all arts were digitized. some jerk deleted the whole thing. people had to rely on memories to recreate arts including music. Wind Will Rove is one of the songs. Alas, the story is too slow for my taste. PS: having dead-tree book editions could be useful one day, just in case, you know, all your e-books are gone.

Hugo Nominee 2018 Best NoveletteOh, brilliant. Thoughtful and complicated and just very, very well done. This is the second work I've read by Sarah Pinsker and they both have kind of knocked my socks off.

Rating solely for "Wind Will Rove" by Sarah Pinsker.Currently available online at www.asimovs.com/assets/1/6/ASFSepOct2...Nebula Award nominee for best novelette, 2018Rating based on the standout story, which I liked a lot.This is a fresh look at a very old SFnal story device, the generation starship, which goes back at least to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/...Newish author Sarah Pinsker's twist is to look at old-time fiddle music on her starship. Her protagonist'...

An excellent edition includeing two short stories by James Gunn in his Transcedental Triology universe. There are two outstanding novelettes a tale of adventure and love of books by Suzanne Palmer set in a post climate change world, and Sarah Pinsker's story about the nature of conflict between those who seek to preserve art and those who feel it only bogs down more creativity, brought into clear view by life on a generation ship. I am putting Harry Turtledove's short story Ziegeuner on my list

Second edit: to be fair, the title and name of this are for the story I reviewed, but the cover is for the entire compilation. So now instead of being angry or sad, I’m confused. First edit: Wind Will Rove review below. Stupid GRLN taking individual reviews and mushing then together under the compilations they can be found in. Screw you GRLN!April 8, 2018 review below.Wow. Stupid kids being stupidly rebellious, no matter the time and place. Rejecting history because “it doesn’t apply to them now...

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“There aren’t new things in history. That’s why it’s called history.”A well-told short story about life on a generation space ship which has lost all its records of Earth. Nice story, but never made a point. Perhaps that’s why the younger generation couldn’t see the point.“Maybe we failed these children already if they thought the past was irrelevant.”(2018 Hugo short story finalist. Illustration is cover of magazine in which story appeared; has nothing to do with story.)

Wind Will Rove by Sarah Pinsker is one of the two Pinsker works nominated for a Hugo this year. This one is a novelette. I didn't much care for the novella, "And Then There Were (N-One)", but I really love this one.This is a story about a generation ship, and history, and looking back versus looking forward, and the need to remember that we are part of a continuous thread of life and memory -- we are connected through time, not isolated, no matter how isolating the vast reaches of space may be.

Review of "Wind Will Rove": Perfect.I've seen a lot of generation ship stories, and they all tend to be about how three specific generations relate to each other: The ones who entered the ship, the ones who will live and die on the ship, and the ones who will actually get where they're going. "Wind Will Rove," by contrast, is about the long, long middle. What does generational conflict look like when both you and your grandchildren will live your entire lives on the ship, with no memory of Earth...

Interesting idea, of people on a generation ship attempting to recreate their music and stories after an individual sabotaged their entertainment databases many years earlier. In the ship's present, there are groups that get together regularly to keep what was remembered alive; others on board, specifically one teen, question the value of holding onto music and literature and history from Earth when it seemingly has no bearing on their present.Though well-written, I found the story dragged. And

Quite a good story about music, history, life, and generation conflict -- a quick snapshot of existence aboard a generation ship headed for a distant star. A Nebula Award nominee for Best Novellette in 2018.

What a brilliant short story of family, history, music and space travel. Its about the middle generations during long space travel. Not the ones who began the journal, and not the ones who will finish the journey. Its not the ones who stepped onto and off of the ship. This is a vignette about all of those who are born and pass during the long journey. And the importance of continuing to teach the history in order to not repeate the doomed fate of Earth.

This novelette was nominated for both Hugo and Nebula awards in 2018The story is set in a generations ship, where quite early in the journey all non-essential information was destroyed, so there is no Earth’s literature, music, movies, etc. At the same time there were still a lot of people, who recalled both the Earth and its culture, so they tried to recreate it from scratch, including writing books or shooting movies “as I recall them”. The action is set a few generation down the way when youn...

2018 Hugo Finalist for Best Novelette“Wind Will Rove,” by Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s, September/October 2017) ... I really liked this story, partly because my daughter is a musicologist but also because I love music and its evolution/revolution. And there's a generation ship. (4 stars; read 4/16/2018)