Welcome to Litsy!

Started this book yesterday. I love a good short story. Celebrating my 1st human grandchilds birth earlier today. Everyone is happy and healthy and I am very relieved.

Rebecca Roanhorse‘s selections are outstanding - all informed by the world on fire now and as the best of SF&F, imagining what the alternatives (or none)would be like. My favorites highlight human resilience and the cracks that might let the light in: The Pizza Boy by Meg Ellison, The Red Mother by Elizabeth Bear, The Cold Calculations by Aimee Ogden; and the opposite: the devastation of hope in The Future Library by Peng Shepherd.

4/5

This is a wonderfully curated selection of 20 SFF short stories that I probably wouldn't have read otherwise. The stories cover a wide range from high fantasy to the paranormal to near future to deep space sci-fi. Many of the stories were sad. It's very easy to see the influence of covid-19 on the genre within these stories.

My favorites were The Pizza Boy by Meg Elison, The Red Mother by Elizabeth Bear, and Skinder's Veil by Kelly Link.

Here's my very spooky October #bookspinbingo

#bookspin: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Rebecca Roanhorse and John Joseph Adams
#doublebookspin: Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun

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