Reviews

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 91 by Sean Williams, Kali Wallace, Julie Nováková, Michael Swanwick, Neil Clarke, Susan Palwick, Jeremy L.C. Jones, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Dominic Green, Daniel Abraham

arkron's review against another edition

5.0

First encounter story with trademark dark humor. One of the best stories of 2014.
Review on my blog.

macthekat's review against another edition

4.0

Read my full review here: http://wp.me/p40HVI-oh

booksandbosox's review

4.0

I liked this one - it's a little humorous and a little disturbing.

catevari's review

4.0

Wallace's greatest talent is creating vivid words with very spare, almost brutal prose. In a way, it's also her greatest downfall (at least in her short stories; I'm still waiting on her novel), because I always find myself wanting more, to immerse deeper, to get more to chew on and, because of the story's length and the constraints that come with that, I never quite get it. On the other hand, it's a pretty pleasing flaw for a writer to have. This was definitely my favorite of the shorts I've read so far, one I'll be thinking about and chewing over for a time to come.