A review by crowyhead
Ancient, Ancient: Short Fiction by Kiini Ibura Salaam, Kiini Ibura Salaam

4.0

This one's between three and four stars for me. The thing about spec fic short stories is that the author has to dump you in midstream -- there's no time to tell you about the culture or the situation, so they have to let you discover it in the middle, and hopefully they've done a good enough job of it that you're not left completely adrift. Some of these stories accomplish this better than others; some of them are so beautifully written that it doesn't quite matter. The real standout for me was the final story in the collection, "Pod Rendezvous." It's a fantastic science-fictional coming of age story and I adored it.