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hamsterwoman

Reading roundup: short story edition

Jun 27, 2007 19:15

I've been reading short stories. Lots of short stories. Fifty, to be exact, across three (really quite good) fantasy/sci-fi collections. I'm not sure how to do this, really, but I wanted to have a couple of sentenes or a paragraph on each story, otherwise I just don't remember them, and it bugs me afterwards. So, that's down below, and I've tried ( Read more... )

a: susanna clarke, a: esther m. friesner, asoiaf, a: neil gaiman, a: orson scott card, a: ted chiang, a: elizabeth bear, link, a: eoin colfer, a: peter s. beagle, short stories, a: tad williams, a: patricia mckillip, a: jane yolen, reading, a: gene wolfe, a: ellen kushner

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anonymous July 1 2008, 12:41:44 UTC

You are making me feel extremely lazy, your notes are so useful! I know I have read Starlight 2, I remember some of the stories - the Gorodischer, Death of the Duke ( I do like Alec, but not a favorite), the Clarke story ( meh. her writing just does not work for me), but others I can´t recall at all.

I loved pretty much all of Ted Chiang´s stories, I wonder which one you did not like, maybe the Tower of Babylon one? Story of Your Life is probably his best story, and he gets quantum electrodynamics sort of right, a story about QED and it works and it´s an integral part of the plot so to speak. It´s definetely on my top of short stories ever, but then again, I love all his short stories, it´s incredible how diverse they are. And how few they are!

oops, sorry that was me! generalblossom July 1 2008, 12:42:36 UTC

sorry, that was me, trying to catch up!