John Wiswell is a disabled author who lives where New York keeps all its trees. His fiction has been translated into ten languages. He won the 2021 Nebula Award for Best Short Story for “Open House on Haunted Hill,” and the 2022 Locus Award for Best Novelette for “That Story Isn’t The Story.” He has also been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. His debut novel, SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, is due out from DAW Books in 2024. He dreams of hugging a kaiju.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Relationships are hard. They may be even harder when one person’s definition of love is implanting their eggs in the beloved, so that the hatchlings eat their way out of their parent. For Shesheshen, the protagonist of John Wiswell’s Someone You Can Build a Nest In (2024), this is how her species defines it. Now that she’s fallen in love with Homily, a human woman, the egg-implantation issue isn’t the only obstacle on their road to happiness.
Shesheshen is a protoplasmic creature,
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No doubt about it--I have to read these.