A review by wanderlustlover
Uncanny Magazine Issue 37: November/December 2020 by Chimedum Ohaegbu, Elsa Sjunneson, Michael Damian Thomas, Lynne M. Thomas
5.0
2021 Winter (February);
I blitzed in a read of this recent 2020 award-winning short story by Martha Wells before interviewing her this past weekend. I fell in love with story so very quickly (with all the times blurring and fading in and out of each other), and as it simultaneously unspooled the past of the main character and brought into focus the message of the story itself, I was riveted.
Say no, my dears, and give no man your crowns.
She took a deep breath and said, “What about no.”
It said, “What do you mean, no? No to what?” The voice was sneering and deep, just like she had expected, but also just a little whiny.
“Monsters like you, you got to start with ‘no’,” Juana said. “Then just keep working your way further toward ‘hell no’.”
I blitzed in a read of this recent 2020 award-winning short story by Martha Wells before interviewing her this past weekend. I fell in love with story so very quickly (with all the times blurring and fading in and out of each other), and as it simultaneously unspooled the past of the main character and brought into focus the message of the story itself, I was riveted.
Say no, my dears, and give no man your crowns.