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A review by miss_fish
Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction by Irene Gallo
3.0
Read or tried the entries from Carrie Vaughn, Ken Liu, and Tina Connolly.
Vaughn's The Best We Can was excellent; an astronomer trying to do her job in spite of all the bureaucratic red tape.
Liu's Reborn lost me on page 3 with the alien sex.
I have not read anything by Connolly before, picked The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections because of the excellent title. It turned out to be a food-based bit of magical-realism set in an anachronistic kingdom in upheaval. If ever there were a premise more perfectly selected for me..
Great story, will look for more of her work.
Vaughn's The Best We Can was excellent; an astronomer trying to do her job in spite of all the bureaucratic red tape.
Liu's Reborn lost me on page 3 with the alien sex.
I have not read anything by Connolly before, picked The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections because of the excellent title. It turned out to be a food-based bit of magical-realism set in an anachronistic kingdom in upheaval. If ever there were a premise more perfectly selected for me..
Great story, will look for more of her work.