A review by cathepsut
Asimov's Science Fiction, September/October 2017 by Robert Frazier, Jane Yolen, John Richard Trtek, James E. Gunn, Dennis E. Staples, Suzanne Palmer, Michael Swanwick, Leslie J. Anderson, Sandra McDonald, Harry Turtledove, Carrie Vaughn, Sarah Pinsker, William Preston, Kit Reed, Erwin S. Strauss, Robert Silverberg, Sheila Williams, Tim McDaniel, Robert Borski, Norman Spinrad, R. Garcia y Robertson, James Patrick Kelly, Allen M. Steele, Bethany Powell, Stuart Greenhouse
2.0
Review for Wind Will Rove by Sarah Pinsker
What can we learn from history? Do we need to learn from history? When do the lessons that we can learn stop mattering for our present lives? And how does life develop, when that history is lost forever and you loose touch with the past and your ancestors?
This felt too much like a mental excercise, a philosophy lesson. I didn‘t care about the characters, the musical evenings or the kids‘ essays.
I read 34 of 66 pages and skimmed the rest. Not my kind of story, it didn‘t work for me. Yes, all good questions about the importance of history, knowing it, learning from it and maybe also distancing yourself from it to create something new and unencumbered. I was bored.
Hugo Awards 2018 Novelette Nominee
Can be read for free here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sitezoogle.com/u/394670/3373259a9d067de6e2a8aebbd44f676cd45ad007/original/windwillrove-pinsker.pdf?response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJUKM2ICUMTYS6ISA%2F20201222%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20201222T141008Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=50422de73e7263883a943529c188b65003c3cdf425002c47c50f70aafad6672c
What can we learn from history? Do we need to learn from history? When do the lessons that we can learn stop mattering for our present lives? And how does life develop, when that history is lost forever and you loose touch with the past and your ancestors?
This felt too much like a mental excercise, a philosophy lesson. I didn‘t care about the characters, the musical evenings or the kids‘ essays.
I read 34 of 66 pages and skimmed the rest. Not my kind of story, it didn‘t work for me. Yes, all good questions about the importance of history, knowing it, learning from it and maybe also distancing yourself from it to create something new and unencumbered. I was bored.
Hugo Awards 2018 Novelette Nominee
Can be read for free here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sitezoogle.com/u/394670/3373259a9d067de6e2a8aebbd44f676cd45ad007/original/windwillrove-pinsker.pdf?response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJUKM2ICUMTYS6ISA%2F20201222%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20201222T141008Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=50422de73e7263883a943529c188b65003c3cdf425002c47c50f70aafad6672c