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Rich and Strange: “If You Were a Tiger, I’d Have to Wear White” by Maria Dahvana Headley

Posted on November 5, 2014 by

This week’s instalment of Rich and Strange is up at Tor.com! Here’s a taste: This story is pitch-perfect where tone, voice, and setting are concerned; reading it I felt awash in the kind of California sunlight that feels grim and … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “The Scrimshaw and the Scream,” by Kate Hall

Posted on October 22, 2014 by

This week on Rich and Strange, an announcement: beginning next week, this column will be running on Tor.com instead of here on my blog, though I’ll make sure to post notifications here. Thank you so much to everyone who’s donated and supported me up … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “Santos de Sampaguitas” by Alyssa Wong, Part 2

Posted on October 15, 2014 by

Last week I reviewed Part 1 of this story; this week I’m reviewing Part 2, as well as reflecting on the story as a whole. Briefly: it made me gasp and cry in that mixture of shocked, satisfied pain that … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “Santos de Sampaguitas” by Alyssa Wong, Part 1

Posted on October 8, 2014 by

In preparing for today’s review I had to think about what boundaries I wanted to set for this recurring feature. I said in my statement of purpose that “I’m going to focus on magazines as much as possible, and have … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: Sam J Miller’s “We Are the Cloud”

Posted on October 1, 2014 by

Welcome to the first instalment of Rich and Strange, a weekly review of short fiction I’ve really enjoyed! Set in a near-future New York where the disenfranchised sell a portion of their brains to “cloud-porting” — functioning as living nodes processing wireless data for … Continue reading →

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A Commitment to Reviewing Short Fiction

Posted on October 1, 2014 by

Yesterday I tweeted the following: No better rec for a story than Tangent bigoting at it. Read @sentencebender‘s WE ARE THE CLOUD http://t.co/gdRiXvr1zQ pic.twitter.com/08AXcOBw19 — Amal El-Mohtar (@tithenai) September 30, 2014 I hadn’t yet read Sam J. Miller’s “We Are the … Continue reading →

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