Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 12 copies of Carrie Vaughn's Discord's Apple, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lusnls6nvc23
Book 6: “The Naturalist Society” by #CarrieVaughn.
Really great premise that’s marred by a largely uninterrogated colonialist worldview: Arcane Taxonomy grants a portion of the magic from the thing that’s named. Primarily birds. Vaughn isn’t ignorant of the dynamics this creates for queers, women, and POC (our MCs), or that Western ways of knowing and naming aren’t the end-all, be-all. But the engine driving everything remains the will to conquer.
A beautiful story by Carrie Vaughn.
Between Above and Below - Lightspeed Magazine
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/between-above-and-below/
> Next war, the angel decided, he was going to sit out. Before the dust settled, before hosts rose and fell depending on their actions and inclinations, he fled. Cowardice, maybe. More like pragmatism, he rationalized.
Martians Abroad - Kindle edition by Vaughn, Carrie. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Martians Abroad.
📚 Clarkesworld Issue 213 edited by Neil Clarke: Favorites this month from S.B. Divya, Carrie Vaughn, and Luc Diamant. …
Read the rest: https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2024/06/05/%f0%9f%93%9a-clarkesworld-issue-213-edited-by-neil-clarke/ (#CarrieVaughn #Clarkesworld #LucDiamant #NeilClarke #SBDivya)
48 timer i Massachusetts-havet
Det har regnet meget på det sidste. Bevidstheden om en verden i forandring synes at strømme ned over én og op gennem fodsålerne. Det gjorde “48 timer i Massachusetts-havet” til en lidt deprimerende bog at læse, for hvis der er én ting, som går igen, så er det havene, der stiger og stiger og lader den gamle verden forsvinde.
“48 timer i Massachusetts-havet” er en antologi med 14 science fiction-noveller, som SFC har udgivet, og de er allerede på forsiden betegnet som klimafiktioner. Bag den forside gemmer sig en perlerække af navne, som Kim Stanley Robinson, Lavie Tidhar, Ken Liu og Pat Murphy – det alene burde være nok til at kaste sig over bogen. Men navne er ikke nok … og heldigvis er indholdet også godt.
Det er nærliggende at sammenligne antologien her (fra 2021) med Solarpunk, der udkom sidste år – faktisk er termen hopepunk også nævnt på bagsiden, så der er et ret tydeligt slægtskab. Denne spreder sig dog lidt mere i behandlingen af emnet – historierne foregår både før og efter katastrofen, og flere af dem tager også den mere teknologisk mindede tilgang, som var fraværende i Solarpunk. Men begge har en tendens til at se verden som noget, der fortsætter, på godt og ondt, også selv om det samfund, læseren kender, er gået under.
Men derudover er det nok uretfærdigt at sammenligne de to, for det er genreveteraner, der står for denne omgang.
“48 timer i Massachusetts-havet” hører til på listen over bøger, man skal have fat i, hvis man læser science fiction på dansk – og jeg kunne godt håbe, at den også havde på nogle klimafiktionslister, for det er spændende visioner og gode historier, der præsenteres.
Det er Niels Dalgaard og Lise Andreasen, der har udvalgt historierne, mens Dalgaard har oversat og leveret efterord.
#antologier #CamilleAlexa #CarrieVaughn #CatharynneMValente #DanielThron #JeanLouisTrudel #KimStanleyRobinson #Klima #LavieTidhar #MitchSullivan #NicoleFeldringer #PatMurphy #PaulDoherty #SamJMiller #scienceFiction #SeanWilliams
https://superkultur.dk/2024/02/15/48-timer-i-massachusetts-havet/
Live in BCS #392, Fifteenth Anniversary Double-Issue: "The Tyrant’s Heir’s Tale" by Carrie Vaughn.
"He had rehearsed what he would say and was determined now to watch their expressions. To see if this was a revelation for them—or if they already knew. “We’re expanding the palace kitchens, putting in a new hearth and tables. The builders knocked out a wall—turns out it was a closet that had been sealed up. In the closet was a body.”"
https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-tyrants-heirs-tale/
#fantasy #sff #carrievaughn
“We found something,” Matias began. He had rehearsed what he would say and was determined now to watch their expressions. To see if this was a revelation for them—or if they already knew. “We’re expanding the palace kitchens, putting in a new hearth and tables. The builders knocked out a wall—turns out it was a closet that had been sealed up. In the closet was a body.”
WELP.
Since my Wednesday night game got cancelled, I sat down and finished reading #Questworld, by #CarrieVaughn.
It's basically "Westworld, but with Dragons." And as a bonus, it's got actual thoughts about nerdery and escapism, instead of being a "I AM THE HERO AND NOW EVERYONE LOVES ME" power fantasy you get in a lot of other portal/isekai works these days.
Definitely worth a read for all y'all #bookstodon folks.
My review of the book Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand by Carrie Vaughn – Wedding in Las Vegas #bookreview #booksaboutwerewolves #CarrieVaughn #LasVegas #paranormal #vampires #werewolf
The fifth book in this series by Carrie Vaughn makes me inclined to think Vaughn was not impressed with Las Vegas when she was there. She advances her characters nicely, but at the same time, I fe…
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