From the June 15th edition of Library Journal comes this really lovely review of Shades of Milk and Honey Readers will be disappointed only when they finish this enchanting story, which is suffused with genteel charm. The author’s judicious and effective changes to aspects of daily life clearly communicate how similar but different this world […]
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I think this might be my favorite review of all time. Dan Wells, author of I Am Not A Serial Killer. Apparently, Shades of Milk and Honey has left him somewhat irked. It’s a shame, because this review just makes me giggle. Here’s the problem: Mary Robinette Kowal is too good. Not only is she
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Here’s an excerpt of the first official review of Shades of Milk and Honey from Joe Sherry of Adventures in Reading. No matter whether one comes into Shades of Milk and Honey as an unabashed fan of Jane Austen or, like me, avoids the stuff like the plague, Mary Robinette Kowal has delivered a debut novel
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This is the first of what I hope to be a regular feature called Getting to Know. The goal will be to give a brief overview of an author that is new to me and some of their short work while also mentioning what novel length works they have in the pipeline. This also plays
Hey! I missed that Lois Tilton reviewed Apex’s all MRK issue. She gave “The Bride Replete” a recommended which is lovely since she is so hard to please. Kowal has created not only one fascinatingly alien society, but two, based on the same physiology. Pimi and her family don't quite seem human, but they are
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I feel like I should frame this, the way people do with My First Pair of Shoes or My First Blanket. My First Amazon Review is for my collection Scenting the Dark and Other Stories. How is the review? First, let’s discuss short stories a bit. Short fiction is hard for me to review. Simply
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I’ve been seeing reports that people have received their copies of Scenting the Dark and Other Stories from Subterranean, which is very cool. YetiStomper has a particularly glowing review, which covers each of the stories and finishes by saying: All in all, Scenting the Dark makes it clear that Kowal can do in 5 pages
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Rich Horton has just given my short story collection a really lovely and lengthy review. Here’s a teaser. Scenting the Dark and Other Stories is notable, compared to other first books I’ve seen, for its brevity — only 8 short stories, some 80 pages. I rather think this is a wise choice — start with
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Publisher’s Weekly has reviewed Scenting the Dark and Other Stories. Whee! Scenting the Dark and Other Stories Mary Robinette Kowal. Subterranean (<http://www.subterraneanpress.com>www.subterraneanpress.com), $25 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59606-267-2 Campbell Award–winner Kowal presents a broad spectrum of stories in her chapbook-slim first collection. The heartbreaking “Just Right,” in which a family struggles with a child’s strange behavior, isn’t
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Issue 10 of Shimmer was my last one as art director, so I’ve been anxiously wondering how it was received. Behold! The reviews are in and it is good. IROSF gives our cover story, Caitlyn Paxson’s “Carnivale of Abandoned Tales” a Recommended as well as Becca De La Rosa’s “River Water.” Lois Tilton says, “highly
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I got home from WisCon last night to a wonderful review of Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, edited by Mike Allen. Allen finds his groove for this second annual anthology of weird stories, selecting 16 wonderfully evocative, well-written tales. Marie Brennan’s thought-provoking “Once a Goddess” considers the fate of a goddess
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One of the interesting side effects of having a story nominated for a Hugo is that everyone and their cousin posts reviews of them. So, I haven’t been linking to them because it would just get silly. One popped up on my feedreader today from Best Science Fiction Stories. I haven’t run across this site
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It always makes me happy when Joe Sherry over at Adventures in Reading reviews one of my stories. He manages to cover the whole thing without any spoilers, which is pretty amazing for a 970 word story. “Evil Robot Monkey” is a heartbreaking and surprising story. The title might suggest a little robot monkey being
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Charlie Jane Anders has given my audio recording of Evil Robot Monkey a gloooooowing review at io9. It’s a great examination of art and the creative process, and what it feels like to be an artist who’s looked at merely as a curiosity or as a momentary amusement for child barbarians. And art as a
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In a future world where the weather is controlled, vineyard owner Bharat Mundari is unable to pay his weather bill after spending too much on his daughter’s wedding. The grapes are suffering in the resulting drought, and he is afraid to tell his wife about the trouble they are in; she knows, however, that he
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