Julia Rios

To say that Alyssa Wong can write is to say that the desert has dry bones.

What I really mean to say is that she can turn a whole town of the old-west dead into dancing corpses and then make you wonder if it is all in your very imaginative head... or whether you're really one of them, too.

Impossible, you say? Well, Wong has a knack for writing absolutely stunning fantasy that's both flashy (or in this case necromantic) and immense with importance while also writing on an entirely different show more level at the same time.

I love reading extravagantly fantastic fantasy like this. But wait! It could also easily be a purely psychological tale of grief and psychosis, of anger and coping after a mining accident takes out a whole desert community.

Woah.

Which do you want? Both are awesome. AND YET WE GET BOTH AT THE SAME TIME! YAY! :)

*mind blown*

Totally cool. :)

Nominated for '17 Hugo for best Novella. You might say I'm tempted to vote this way. :) show less

"This is not the story of how he killed me, thank fuck."

Thank fuck, indeed.
This story sums up exactly my thoughts on this let's hear abuser's life story culture which treats a victim as a nameless concept instead of a human being.
It's only 3 pages long but perfect. It's not his story but HERS. She gets personality and he doesn't even have a name.
It also stresses the importance of sisterhood. She's not alone in her wrath.

I really liked this short story by Sarah Gaily and would have liked it despite it being nommed for Hugo 2019.

It's dry. So dry. Written dry, but damn the data points are awesome.

Vehicular homicide. By AI.

How did it learn to make its judgments? Us. *shiver*

Totally recommend.

This is a fantastic anthology of diverse SFF YA short stories. The collection in and of itself is diverse - The stories cover the breadth of underrepresented minorities in speculative fiction literature - there's not just racial and ethnic minorities, or protagonists who are LGBT+, there are also protagonists who have mental illnesses, are disabled, and/or are autistic. Perhaps most importantly, stories may not feature only one aspect of diversity, but several.

Some of the stories that show more really stand out to me:
- "The Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon" by Ken Liu - I'm a sucker for any story that incorporates The Cowherd and the Weaver Maiden, which is my favorite fairy tale.
- "Kiss and Kiss and Kiss and Tell" by E.C. Myers - a new party drug that lets you visit the future if you're a teenager
- "Vanilla" by Dirk Flinthart - a journal written by an Somalian-Australian girl about the space aliens she befriends. show less