Reseña: Fantasy Magazine, Issue 60 - Dec. 2016

Fantasy Magazine, Issue 60 - Dec. 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue 

by Daniel José Older (Editor) y Varios Autores

 

 200 pages 

Published December 1st 2016 by John Joseph Adams

ASIN: B01EXJ8P50

Edition Language: English

"The Things My Mother Left Me" by P. Djéli Clark. 

"Eyes of Carven Emerald" by Shweta Narayan. 

"Red Dirt Witch" by N.K. Jemisin 

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

"The Things My Mother Left Me" by P. Djéli Clark - 3 stars

Fantasía mágica donde una huérfana de quince años decide escapar del prospecto de que sus tías la casen , y llega hasta donde un circo con un sujeto que da mala espina y seres encadenados.

Reseña de relato corto: The Best We Can

The Best We Can 

by 

 

Carrie Vaughn

 

 

 

32 pages

Published July 17th 2013 by Tor Books

ISBN:  1466850442 (ISBN13: 9781466850446)

Edition Language: English

My rating: 2.5 let-it-flow stars

Out of the thousands of asteroids we tracked and photographed, this one caught my eye, because it was symmetrical and had a higher than normal albedo. It flashed, even, like a mirror. Asteroids aren’t symmetrical and aren’t very reflective. But if it wasn’t an asteroid . . . .

Relato corto y bastante realista de una astronomo cuando descubre un objeto de origen no-terrestre en el espacio. Bueno, ciertamente no pasa como en una pelicula de Hollywood.

Primero debaten de cuando anunciarlo, y a quien le corresponde, las empresas que deben ser auspiciadoras, y ¿en serio vale la pena hacer algo cuando el objeto (sin todavia saber lo que es) esta por años solamente ahi?

Reseña de relato corto: That Game We Played During the War

 

That Game We Played During the War 

by  

Carrie Vaughn

 16 pages

Published March 16th 2016 by Tor.com

ISBN: 0765389355 (ISBN13: 9780765389350)

Edition Language: English

URL

http://www.tor.com/2016/03/16/that-game-we-played-during-the-war/

Literary Awards

Hugo Award Nominee for Best Short Story (2017), Locus Award Nominee for Best Short Story (2017)

 

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Some said Enith and Gaant were two sides of the same coin; they would never see eye to eye and would always fight over the same spit of land between their two continents. But their differences were simple, one might say: only in their minds.

Calla is a nurse. Valk a militar. Once time prisioners of war in the other camp.
Chess is a strategy game. Except when is not.

Reseña de relato corto: Dislocation Space

 

Dislocation Space 

by 

Garth Nix

  

44 pages (first published December 11th 2019)

ISBN: 1250768659 (ISBN13: 9781250768650)

Edition Language: English

URL

https://www.tor.com/2019/12/11/dislocation-space-garth-nix/

 

My rating: 3.5

Go on. Try to stay alive.

Maybe something would change.

Stalin might die. Aleksandra might die. The Americans might drop lots of their new bombs…

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Aleksandra es un zek, una prisionera de gulag, y un día dos oficiales vienen con una nueva misión para ella, no como francotiradora sino como contorsionista talentosa en un destino secreto en otra parte de Siberia. Es eso o consecuencias nefastas para su familia, las amenazas habituales.

Los soviéticos están intrigados por una anomalía y quieren explorarla. Para Aleksandra es otro campamento, otra misión mortal o tal vez ... podría ser un posible escape.