If Tomorrow Comes by Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress’ Locus finalist If Tomorrow Comes (2018) follows up on Yesterday’s Kin, though works fine as a stand-alone. I hadn’t read Yesterday’s Kin, and thanks to the independent nature of If Tomorrow Comes, and some efficiently economical backstorying by Kress, I didn’t feel that lack at all.
Millennia ago, aliens took a group of humans from Earth and transplanted them to another planet,
June 5th, 2019. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3 | Nancy Kress | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
The plot of T. Kingfisher’s Clockwork Boys (2017) is of the “misfit company of strangers on a dangerous mission” type. Their country has been invaded by the so-called Clockwork Boys, nearly unstoppable, 10-foot-tall centaur-like creatures who are laying waste to the countryside. (I like the allusion to the out-of-control gang of boys in A Clockwork Orange.) The Dowager Queen has previously sent soldiers and spies to distant Anuket City, from which the Clockwork Boys regularly emerge,
June 5th, 2019. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | T. Kingfisher | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Deep Roots (2018), a finalist for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, is the sequel to Ruthanna Emrys’ Winter Tide. This Lovecraft-inspired story is about a race of Americans living in the 1940s who worship, and are related to, the eldritch gods. They are long-lived and, when they eventually mature, they may grow gills and return to the sea.
Most of the People of the Water were exterminated or dispersed when the American government,
June 5th, 2019. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Ruthanna Emrys | Audio | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
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