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Clarkesworld: Year Six by Catherynne M. Valente, Aliette de Bodard, Ken Liu

moonlit_shelves's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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5.0

This may have been another of my best reads of 2015. What an amazing collection of work. I was crying, laughing, yelling, all the standards physical signs of investment and care in a book and its characters. It hit all the marks. Even some of the crazier, surrealist stories still (mostly) managed to retain their awesome essence and humanity. Lots of great explorations in this collection to transhumanism, global development, Turing tests, etc.. Fucking godly stuff right here. Cannot wait for more or believe that it's free online.

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

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I'll be honest: I only read this because of Aliette de Bodard. That Ken Liu and Xia Jia are also featured is a bonus, of course. I don't know how shitty racist white authors are included alongside actually talented authors of color. I'd feel embarassed for these whites but I make a point of never feeling for whites to begin with.


faves: A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight by Xia Jia, Scattered Along the River of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard


โ—† Scattered Along the River of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard
Unfortunately I had read this elsewhere and can't find the CWs for it. Rip me.

โ—† All the Painted Stars by Gwendolyn Clare
medium suicide,  suicide,  ideation, ,  
major violence, wars, 

โ—† Prayer by Robert Reed
major religion mormon,  religion christianity mormon,  guns,  child soldiers, ,  

โ—† A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight by Xia Jia
minor gore,  organ trafficking, emetophobia,  
medium snakes,  
major spiders,  

โ—† And the Hollow Space Inside by Mari Ness
medium medical scenarios,  abortion,  body horror,  emetophobia,  
major colonization, child abuse,  medical experimentation,  

โ—† What Everyone Remembers by Rahul Kanakia
medium child birth,  body horror,  insects,  fire,  forest fires, ,  
major child abuse,  medical abuse, ,  

โ—† The Bells of Subsidence by Michael John Grist
medium unreality,  grooming?,
major child abuse, torture, brainwashing, ,  

โ—† The Switch by Sarah Stanton
This is an incredibly racist sinophobic pile of dog shit from a white australian woman.

โ—† Sunlight Society by Margaret Ronald
major demolition, explosion, secret police,  murder,  

โ—† A Militant Peace by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell

no c w s. this is weird fucked up anti Korea propaganda.

โ—† All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions by Helena Bell
minor animal hunting, NSFW,  

โ—† In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems by Chris Stabback
minor gore,  death,  cancer,  medical scenarios,  
medium unsanitary,  body horror,  gore,  

โ—† The Womb Factory by Peter M. Ferenczi
no c w s. I'm not reading a story titled this by a man.,  

โ—† Draftyhouse by Erik Amundsen
medium animal death,  
major alcohol use,  

โ—† All the Things the Moon Is Not by Alexander Lumans
minor animal death,  dogs,  guns,  
medium drugs, NSFW,  cannibalism,  child death, ,  

โ—† Astrophilia by Carrie Vaughn
minor nsfw,  
medium sterilization,  

โ—† If the Mountain Comes by An Owomoyela

minor blood, whorephobic language,  
medium dogs, animal death,  disease,  parental death,  religion.,  

โ—† From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit by Gary Kloster
major rape, sexual violence, police brutality, pedophilia, ,  

not interested in reading shitty stories from shitty white male authors who write shitty rape scenes. get good loser.

โ—† Sirius by Ben Peek
major diseases, mass death, genocide, ,  

โ—† Synch Me,  Kiss Me,  Drop by Suzanne Church
minor domestic abuse,  
medium drowning,  
major drugs,  prisons,  prison abuse?,  torture, 

โ—† Iron Ladies,  Iron Tigers by Sunny Moraine
minor insects, ableist c slur, drowning,  
medium mass death, 

โ—† Mantis Wives by Kij Johnson
medium NSFW,  gore,  
major cannibalism, torture,  insects,  

โ—† Pony by Erik Amundsen
medium smoking tobacco, 
major NSFW animal genital, ?

note: I've been so spoiled by Neon Yang,  Aliette de Bodard,  Nghi Vo,  Benjanun Sriduangkaew,  Kat Cho,  et all that this left me wishing any of them wrote it instead. Like,  the flavor and authenticity it would have beyond hey,  this weird sexualized horse has asian writing on it.

โ—† Robot by Helena Bell
minor colonization, 
major cannibalism?,  gore, ,  

โ—† The Found Girl by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell
minor child death, cannibalism,  
medium body horror, blood,  disease,  
major parental death, death,  gore,  child death, gun violence,  

โ—† muo-ka's Child by Indrapramit Das
medium emetophobia, child death,  gore,  child birth,  
major death, gore,  unsanitary, insects, 

โ—† Honey Bear by Sofia Samatar
minor alcohol,  murder, 
medium unsanitary,  body horror,  genocide?,  

โ—† The Smell of Orange Groves by Lavie Tidhar
minor smoking tobacco,  
major body horror,  body augmentation, pregnancy,  child birth,  

โ—† Fragmentation,  or Ten Thousand Goodbyes by Tom Crosshill
minor n word hard r,  
major NSFW, anti black racism,  

note: the author is a white latvian man who uses the hard r n word in this story. So automatically he can get fucked lollerskates hugs.

โ—† You Were She Who Abode by E. Catherine Tobler
major war,  gun violence,  child abuse, medical scenarios, child soldiers, ,  

โ—† Staying Behind by Ken Liu
minor religion catholic, guns, native reservations,  
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