anna_hepworth's review against another edition
3.0
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My issue with a book of flash fiction is that it is necessarily bitty. I appreciate that there is a theme, although 'Impact' seems to have disproportionately been used in negative physical ways, involving war and fighting.
My issue with this book of explicitly queer fiction is that the level of sophistication in how that part of a character's identity is woven into a story varied greatly. Across the many stories, it ranged from 'queerness as adjective' (where the only thing that made it queer is labelling a character) through some rather heavy handed 'identity through relationship' (queerness defined by the binary genders of the partners) to some really really beautifully rendered elements of identity.
Such a themed anthology does lend itself to more romance and relationships than many spec-fic anthologies, and that was a plus for me -- I do love a bit of that side of things in my reading.
Overall, this is an enjoyable set of stories across a broad definition of spec-fic. Best read one or two stories at a time, in stolen moments.
My issue with a book of flash fiction is that it is necessarily bitty. I appreciate that there is a theme, although 'Impact' seems to have disproportionately been used in negative physical ways, involving war and fighting.
My issue with this book of explicitly queer fiction is that the level of sophistication in how that part of a character's identity is woven into a story varied greatly. Across the many stories, it ranged from 'queerness as adjective' (where the only thing that made it queer is labelling a character) through some rather heavy handed 'identity through relationship' (queerness defined by the binary genders of the partners) to some really really beautifully rendered elements of identity.
Such a themed anthology does lend itself to more romance and relationships than many spec-fic anthologies, and that was a plus for me -- I do love a bit of that side of things in my reading.
Overall, this is an enjoyable set of stories across a broad definition of spec-fic. Best read one or two stories at a time, in stolen moments.
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