Summary: A writer heads to a cabin in the mountains to focus on writing her next novel. Setting: a backwoods cabin in West Virginia, present day Published: July/August 2019 issue of Uncanny Magazine “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker Probably my second favorite of the bunch. She flips the situation around and has Suss integrate herself into village life as a wolf, who occasionally becomes human when it’s important enough. Luckily, she’s got a good friend that can see there is another solution. She’s ready to give it up and stay a human (and in pain) forever. She’s been using her wolf form as a haven, but it’s starting to cause problems in the village. Should Suss stay human, as her mom wanted her to do, and live with chronic pain and exhaustion all the time? Or should Suss stay wolf, where she doesn’t hurt anymore, but she does destroy parts of the village at times? Suss thinks it’s an either or question. Her best friend helps her come up with a better solution to that dilemma, which involves making a wolf friend.įinal thoughts: Gailey did a great job setting up the moral dilemma of this story. Summary: Suss feels guilty that she usually chooses to live as a wolf instead of as a human with chronic pain. Published: September/October, 2019 issue of Uncanny Magazine Title comes from: The narrator was an archronologist (an archeologist who traveled back in time to study a location) whose lifelove died on the colony she was studying
Yoachim achieved a nice balance of emotion balanced with the science. Then, there’s the story of grief as our narrator is heading to the colony where her husband was supposed to meet her, but everyone is dead. Second, there’s the intriguing elements of archronology – the archeological study of time instead of space. First of all, there are interspersed elements of the story in italics that I slowly realized was the aliens talking, and not the narrator. You definitely had to think about what was going on in order to understand the story. They discover the alien artifacts found on the planet used nanites to assimilate all organic matter in the colony.įinal thoughts: An interesting story that worked on multiple levels.
Summary: A team of archeologists who travel back in time arrive at the colony of New Mars to research why the colony has been wiped out. Published: April, 2019 in Lightspeed Magazine “The Archronology of Love” by Caroline M. If you follow that link and buy the book or story, you’ll be supporting my blog – thanks. If they’re not available free online, I’ll link to their publication on Amazon. Again, I’ll link to any of the stories that can be read online. Next up are the novelettes, which the Hugos define as anything that has between 7,500 and 17,500 words. I’m slowly working my way through the Hugo Awards packet.
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