When I read, I want something to make me smile
New maxim
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Terrific story just out from friend and ex-Aurora Street critique group member @carolscheina.bsky.social. A bookstore visited by multiple versions of the protagonist who write notes to each other. A beautiful story flowed. Strongly recommended.
https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/all-these-inscriptions-are-for-me-by-carol-scheina
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In Ída Hennessy's "A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada," Annie works as a "Canary" at the Nevada nuclear test site, at a time portal bringing tourists back to 1952. Multiple unexpected gut punches. Strongly recommended.
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/a-slightly-different-sunrise-from-mercury-nevada/
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More Codex2024 reading: Ída Hennessy's RoxysMakeupMoxy6 Gets Real" was very funny. A makeup tips influencer doing her last show before the apocalypse. Strongly recommended flash piece.
https://flashpointsf.com/2024/09/20/roxysmakeupmoxy6-gets-real/
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More Codex 2024 reading: "Eternity is Moments" by RP Sand traces the relationship between a woman and her grandfather with ecological themes as the backdrop. Strongly recommended.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219709480-asimov-s-science-fiction-september-october-2024
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"Belladonna" by Cressida Blake Roe operates on two levels. On the surface, a time-traveling botanist finds a young protégé with unique abilities. Deeper, it's a story about grooming and psychological abuse of girls. Gritty horror. Strongly recommended.
https://houseofgamut.com/gamut-magazine/belladonna/
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More reading of Codexian 2024 output: Andrea Goyan's "All My Mother Is" is a touching portrait of a mother-daughter relationship in the face of dementia. The fantasy tropes worked well with the material. Strongly recommended.
https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/all-my-mother-is/
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Fiona Moore's "What Happened at The Pony Club" has a cool premise--Y2K knocked out all computers worldwide and the world reverts to depending on smart people. Cool characters--girls at a private high school for these "computers." Cool format--an FBI case file.
https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-22/
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More Codex 2024 reading, this one from my friend and critique partner Sam Pisciotta. In "House of the Hidden Moon," two worlds bump up against each other. In one, an alcoholic mother has died and left the house to her son. In a second, a ghost and fairies stand in for a family that might have been. It's sad and disturbing, yet beautiful. Strongly recommended.
https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/house-of-the-hidden-moon/
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In "When the Cattle Gun Touches Her Forehead" by Ben Serna-Grey, trillionaires get the Nobel while a father slaves on a tower to reduce atmospheric CO2 and his wife submits to in utero genetic engineering to make the baby eat plastic. Satiric treatment of eco-fascism. Strongly recommended
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1N6MGDV
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Continuing with Codex 2024 short fiction catch-up, Angela Liu's "Before We Were Born" uses a near-future, cyberpunky conceit to examine tensions within a modern family. The twist at the end was terrific. Strongly recommended.
https://logicmag.io/issue-21-medicine-and-the-body/before-we-were-born/
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Cécile Cristofari's braided narrative, "Down the Waterfall," uses a time travel conceit to allow her protagonist to examine her life, live out fantasies, and find what is important to her. Very interesting. Strongly recommended.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cristofari_01_24/
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Jennifer Hudak's "The Witch Trap" uses braided narrative to give the reader an academic history of witchcraft as well as narratives skipping through time and characters. It works well. I was completely swept up and captivated by it. Strongly recommended.
https://smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2024/09/01/lady-churchills-rosebud-wristlet-no-48/
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Andrew Sayre's "You Look a Lot Like Aton Fuller" is a perspective I haven't seen: an adult clone, grown for spare parts for a rich man, freed when that practice became untenable, musing about this man upon his death. Definitely thought-provoking. Highly recommended.
https://aurealis.com.au/store/aurealis-174/
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Renan Bernardo's "A Theory of Missing Affections" has an Ursula Le Guin vibe. A home planet, a distant planet with the ruins of an ancient civilization, a gate that connects them, and sisters on either side: one a historian, one viewing the ancients as gods.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bernardo_09_24/
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"I hope you enjoy Herald Petrel as well!" ....
I am! It's great. I'm loving it
I don't seem to have the right words to convey what I feel about books I'm reading because words like 'enjoy' and 'love' don't feel right when the story deals with tough situations; 'appreciate' is too weak
I think HP is great writing
The story comes across as 'real' and I love the interplay between the characters
Something that took weeks to write may be read in minutes. What does that do to the cadence of words? The reader discovers a text the author never imagined
Or, perhaps, it is what the author imagined
Following on from the Dog & Duck, I'm starting to read The Secret Orchard by Sharon Gosling
I recently read The Lighthouse Bookshop by SG, which I thought was a tremendous story: well written, absorbing & beautiful
So, I'm hoping for good things
It is never too late to be what you might have been
George Eliot
(quoted in A Book of Beginnings, Sally Page)
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It's out, today. The episode of the Shining Moon Science Fiction #Podcast where @brentclambert , Leigh Harlen and I talk with host @dldavitt about the six stories up for Nebula Awards this year in the novelette category. Great discussion, lots of fun to do. Enjoy!
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https://shiningmoon.buzzsprout.com/2222860/15009824-shining-moon-episode-41-reading-the-nebulas-ii
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