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Work InformationSooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories by Sarah Pinsker
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. 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. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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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)" ( )