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A review by essinink
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy by
4.0
Anthologies are hard to review because you have such a mix of voices to work with. Reading them, I end up slowing down, working with each story on it's own. You can't rush the reading. (Which is difficult for me).
Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan have compiled a beautiful collection, here. These are stories and voices I have not heard; peoples and memories that are not often told, and it's wonderful.
There was only one work in this collection that fell utterly flat for me (Rachel by Larissa Lai). As much as I support transformative works, this particular short story was far enough removed from the themes of the novel from which it was derived that I couldn't get into it. I appreciate what the author was trying to convey, but I don't think she succeeded here.
That aside, this was a very enjoyable (read? study? experience?). Someday I'll figure out a better way to review anthologies.
Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan have compiled a beautiful collection, here. These are stories and voices I have not heard; peoples and memories that are not often told, and it's wonderful.
There was only one work in this collection that fell utterly flat for me (Rachel by Larissa Lai). As much as I support transformative works, this particular short story was far enough removed from the themes of the novel from which it was derived that I couldn't get into it. I appreciate what the author was trying to convey, but I don't think she succeeded here.
That aside, this was a very enjoyable (read? study? experience?). Someday I'll figure out a better way to review anthologies.