The Chains That You Refuse by Elizabeth Bear

[meganbmoore]

The Chains that You Refuse is a collection of 22 genre short stories, covering all ends of the spectrum. With the exception of high fantasy, I think pretty much every subset of the sff genre is represented. Unfortunately, that also means that there’s no real unifying theme to the book.

There are several stories I really liked-“Gone to Flowers” (sci

Comments

[annwyd]

This sounds like something I might like, especially since I've never read Bear before.

...okay, I admit it, I am just fascinated by the idea of "sci-fi meets genderbent Kit Marlowe."

[meganbmoore]

I've read several books of hers this year, check the tag.

[smillaraaq]

sci-fi cyborg military heroine who I think is the lead of Bear’s sci-fi series that I haven’t read yet

Jenny Casey? 40-something (at least by the time of the novels) Canadian Métis?

[meganbmoore]

I think she was in her late 30s here (at least, as I interpretted it...I don't remember her age being stated) but that was the name.