There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about.
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu (2011, free at Clarkesworld, $2.99 Kindle magazine issue). 2012 Hugo award nominee and 2011 Nebula award nominee (short story)
The village of Yiwei has an uneasy truce with the many paper wasps that live in and around the village, until one day,
September 5th, 2016. Tadiana Jones and Marion Deeds | Alex Bledsoe, N.K. Jemisin | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Lord of the Darkwood by Lian Hearn
This is Book Three in a quartet and this review may contain spoilers for earlier books.
In the third installment of Lian Hearn’s THE TALES OF SHIKANOKO, the story moves to the next generation, with the true emperor and the son of Shika and the Autumn Princess. In Lord of the Darkwood (2016), characters who previously played supporting roles take center stage, and for the first time in the series we meet a tengu,
September 5th, 2016. Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Lian Hearn | SFF Reviews | no comments |
In her follow-up to her acclaimed novel The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton adopts a dual timeline structure, following the lives of two creatively gifted women separated by time and place, but linked by a luminous, long-hidden painting that bodes well to take the art world by storm, and a decades-old mystery about the artist. The Muse (2016) lacks the subtle element of magical realism that lent a mysterious aura to the dollhouse and the titular miniaturist who furnished it in her debut novel,
September 5th, 2016. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Jessie Burton | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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