A review by dreadfulsorry
Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction For A Time of Pandemic by Iona Datt Sharma
5.0
I think this is one of the first short story collections I've ever read where I enjoyed every single story.
Standouts: This Is New Gehesran Calling (Rebecca Fraimow) was so comforting and fun and bittersweet - it was definitely my favorite of the stories in this book.
Four (Freya Marske), St Anselm-by-the-Riverside (Iona Datt Sharma) and Of a Female Stranger (Jeannelle M. Ferreira) all left me desperate for more. I really do hope at least one is expanded into a longer work - and preferably all three. I love everything Aliette de Bodard writes, and A Hundred and Seventy Storms was no exception.
I bought this book on a whim and it was well worth it.
Standouts: This Is New Gehesran Calling (Rebecca Fraimow) was so comforting and fun and bittersweet - it was definitely my favorite of the stories in this book.
Four (Freya Marske), St Anselm-by-the-Riverside (Iona Datt Sharma) and Of a Female Stranger (Jeannelle M. Ferreira) all left me desperate for more. I really do hope at least one is expanded into a longer work - and preferably all three. I love everything Aliette de Bodard writes, and A Hundred and Seventy Storms was no exception.
I bought this book on a whim and it was well worth it.