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Gunflower
Gunflower | Laura Jean Mckay
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The startling and highly anticipated new short story collection from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of The Animals in That Country. A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship plows through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men. With her trademark humor, energy, and flair, McKay offers hallucinogenic glimpses of places where dreams subsume reality, where childhood restarts, where humans embrace their animal selves and animals talk like humans. The stories in Gunflower explode and bloom in mesmerizing ways, showing the world both as it is and as it could be.
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It took me a long time to finish this series of short stories as they were often challenging or were somewhat bleak in their outlook. They deal with modern society including our impact on the earth, and sometimes wander into speculative fiction. Standouts were the title story - of an offshore ship providing abortions, and the story “2020” - a pandemic story told from the perspective of a family of Covid deniers. A thought provoking collection.