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I reviewed this book for the blog Nerds of a Feather:http://www.nerds-feather.com/2021/11/...
As with any collections I liked a few and didn't like a few. I'll be looking for more from four authors: Lisa Bradley (Tia Abuela's Face, Ten Ways); Louangie Bou-Montes (Like Flowers Through Concrete); Pedro Iniguez (Do as I Do); Roxanne Ocasio (The Chupacbra Next Door). Worth reading.
I read this for reviewing purposes and wow! I loved each and every story! So happy to see an inclusive collection of Latinx voices merging tradition with futuristic elements. I can’t recommend this anthology enough!
Why can't I find more by these authors? This stuff is awesome!
Hit and miss collection of short stories. Some are great. Some,... Just eh.
I only listened to Tía Abuela’s Face, Ten Ways by Lisa M. Bradley from this collection through the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. Coping with death can be very challenging, as a space anthropologist finds when she arrives back at Earth to find that her beloved great-aunt has died. Chided by some family members at not being there at the end of her aunt’s life, she takes it upon herself to honor her in an extreme way. Set sometime in the speculative future, technology enables her to transform her fac...
Yeah, it's got a story by me. And a lot of other great ones, too. Buy it. Read it. Live it.
(Cannot currently get this working on my Kobo)
I thoroughly enjoyed this anthology and feel like it has enough to charm every reader. There were poems, plays, comics, flash fiction, and short stories that ranged from near future to far future science fiction, serious reflections and adventurous romps, historical fantasy and surrealist explorations… The editors did a magnificent job of ensuring a range and depth worthy of the most daring dreamers.