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pearseanderson's review
4.0
An amazing deal for some great adventure fantasy, although not every story in this best-of anthology is a winner for me. Two ones made it to my best short prose list, and seriously took my breath away:
“Carnival Nine” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“Red Bark and Ambergris” by Kate Alice Marshall, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
The Orangery, Rivers Run Free, and Ora Et Labora were also amazing pieces that felt like they represented the best of what Beneath Ceaseless Skies had to offer. Other pieces I did not finish! Overall, this anthology reminds me how good of a magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is and how many different subgenres and aesthetics fantasy can draw on while creating a coherant narrative. Real inspirational.
“Carnival Nine” by Caroline M. Yoachim, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
“Red Bark and Ambergris” by Kate Alice Marshall, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
The Orangery, Rivers Run Free, and Ora Et Labora were also amazing pieces that felt like they represented the best of what Beneath Ceaseless Skies had to offer. Other pieces I did not finish! Overall, this anthology reminds me how good of a magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is and how many different subgenres and aesthetics fantasy can draw on while creating a coherant narrative. Real inspirational.
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