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A wide-ranging debut collection from a writer whose musicality and humor shine through even when plumbing the darkest depths of space.
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Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories by Sarah Pinsker

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"Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" is full of gray skies and wistful nostalgia. Its stories long for what could have been, while desperately cherishing what's here now.
There were several duds for me, but the mood is right and there were a handful that really stuck with me.

My favorite by far (maybe my favorite short story I've ever read) was "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind", but I also highly recommend:
"A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide"
"Wind Will Rove"
"The Low Hum of Her"
"Talking With Dead People"
"And Then There Were (N-One)" ( )
  AdioRadley | Jan 21, 2024 |
This was excellent, but it's going to take me some time to process and articulate all the reasons why.

I found this by poking through the Goodreads blog, specifically in this post. ( )
  cosmicpool | May 24, 2023 |
The thing I love about magical realism is throwing a reader into very unrealistic territory that feels familiar because the human emotional aspect feels so natural. This collection of short stories does this so well. ( )
  kspeerschneider | Apr 11, 2023 |
I knew this collection would be good stuff. I adore a lovely short story collection, especially a speculative sci-fi short story collection. A speculative fiction collection can go on so many tangents! And this one does so, very well. All of the stories here are excellent. Most punkish, musically inclined. The only problem is that so many of these stories could be full novels that I would like to read. Sadly, one of the stories with the most interesting ideas is only three pages. Maybe one day it could be a novel? My favorite story is probably the most ballsy - a multiverse story featuring a convention of Sarah Pinskers... and a murder of a Sarah Pinsker. No idea why she decided to use her own name for that, but I love it. Another favorite is 'The Narwhal' which has only been published within this book. I already have Pinsker's next collection in my stack and I'm looking forward to it. They are doing things that are quite my jam over at Small Beer Press. ( )
  booklove2 | Mar 17, 2023 |
I especially liked the last story, And Then There Were (N-1), a mystery about a convention of the same person from different parallel universes.

What I didn't like was the feel of the cover of the book with a slimy-ish plastic coating, ick. ( )
  JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 |
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