Marissa K. Lingen
Auteur de The Calculus Plague
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Marissa K. Lingen
The Calculus Plague 5 exemplaires
The Grandmother-granddaughter Conspiracy 3 exemplaires
On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant) 2 exemplaires
In the Garden and Graves {short story} 2 exemplaires
Some of Them Closer 2 exemplaires
Surfacing (short story) 2 exemplaires
The Opposite of Pomegranates 2 exemplaires
Monstrous Bonds 2 exemplaires
Things We Have in this House for No Reason 2 exemplaires
Ask Citizen Etiquette 1 exemplaire
Väinämöinen and the Singing Fish [short story] 1 exemplaire
Grief, as Faithful as My Hound 1 exemplaire
The Salt Path 1 exemplaire
How to Wrap a Roc's Egg 1 exemplaire
Rest Stop 1 exemplaire
The Radioactive Etiquette Book 1 exemplaire
The Six Skills Of Madame Lumiere 1 exemplaire
Dark Thread 1 exemplaire
Erasing the Map 1 exemplaire
Loki's Net 1 exemplaire
Making Alex Frey 1 exemplaire
Singing Them Back 1 exemplaire
The Beast's Apprentice 1 exemplaire
Swimming Back From Hell By Moonlight 1 exemplaire
Michael Banks Home From the War 1 exemplaire
Things We Sell to Tourists 1 exemplaire
Anna's Implants 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49 • June 2014 (Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue) (2014) — Contributeur — 161 exemplaires
Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: September/October 2018 (Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction) (2018) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction for a Time of Pandemic (2020) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories (Science and Fiction) (2016) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXXXIV, No. 9 (September 2014) (2014) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Nature Futures 2: Science Fiction from the Leading Science Journal (2013) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 44, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2020] (2020) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Daily Science Fiction: May 2020 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Flash Fiction Online July 2021 (Flash Fiction Online 2021 Issues) (2021) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #86 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1978-07-26
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Eagan, Minnesota, USA
Membres
Critiques
Ended up skimming this for work, so I'm going to count it as read. Lovely, with a lot of world packed into very few words.
Especially poignant as I think about the future these days:
“If I spend another year as a child,” I said. “A sleepwalking child. If I spend two, three. How will I learn then, not to be used? How will it ever get better?”
Uncle Flower reached out and stroked my head. “Oh, Zally. I don’t know if it will.”
. . .
I stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek. “It’ll be all right, Uncle Flower. I promise.”
“You can’t know that.”
“I can. I dream in centuries, and there’ll be more centuries. So it’ll be all right.”
Especially poignant as I think about the future these days:
“If I spend another year as a child,” I said. “A sleepwalking child. If I spend two, three. How will I learn then, not to be used? How will it ever get better?”
Uncle Flower reached out and stroked my head. “Oh, Zally. I don’t know if it will.”
. . .
I stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek. “It’ll be all right, Uncle Flower. I promise.”
“You can’t know that.”
“I can. I dream in centuries, and there’ll be more centuries. So it’ll be all right.”
A retelling of a Finnish folk/fairy tale about a brother who challenges the world’s greatest charmer and loses, and his sister who has to pay the price. I liked this one a lot. It had all the rhythms of a proper fairy tale, with some quite funny touches, and the relationship between the sisters and their brother was great, and the ending nicely landing in the grey area between happily ever after and tragedy.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 38
- Aussi par
- 54
- Membres
- 65
- Popularité
- #261,994
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 14
Some light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek stories next to more introspective pieces that would barely classify as stories. All are wonderful.