A review by fenny_42
Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee

5.0

This short story combines beautiful imagery with a haunting landscape of shadow puppets in a world where the lanterns are going dim. I loved how Lee brought hard science fiction concepts into a very fairy-tale-like world and just made it work (shadow spaceship, for one example). It took a little bit for me to get hooked, since I've never read anything like a 2D world that is conscious of the existence of a 3D world... but once I figured things out, the story really took off. And the ending was unexpectedly chilling and hopeful at the same time.