{"id":3912,"date":"2015-02-09T14:53:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2015-02-09T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:53:12","slug":"short-sf-marathon-day-5-carroll-ciriello-cooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2015\/02\/short-sf-marathon-day-5-carroll-ciriello-cooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Short SF Marathon Day 5: Carroll, Ciriello, Cooney"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nSiobhan Carroll, “The Year of Silent Birds<\/a>.” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 9, 2014.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThis is an epic fantasy short story, if that isn’t an oxymoron, a story that hints at a much bigger world than it can show in the space available without being incomplete. A woman comes back from the dead to save the son of her sister from execution, in the process learning that even the undead still aren’t save from politics. Carroll has a good eye for imagery and the opening with the protagonist moving through deep, silent snow while the birds in the forest have frozen on their branches will stay with me a while.\n<\/p>\n

\nDario Ciriello, “Free Verse<\/a>.” Free Verse and Other Stories<\/em>, Panverse, 2014.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nEver since I first read Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity<\/cite> I’ve been a sucker for parallel worlds\/cross time travel craziness and this delivers in spades. It reminded me a lot of the sort of stories Keith Laumer used to write. For me, this is high praise.\n<\/p>\n

\nC. S. E. Cooney, “Witch, Beast, Saint: an Erotic Fairy Tale<\/a>.” Strange Horizons, July 21, 2014.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nI’m not a real fan of modern fairy tales, nor of erotic fantasy perse, but this was worth overcoming my prejudices. Filthy, kinky, written in a way that you can believe the relationship between the witch, her enchanted man-beast and the saint who transforms him back to the man he used to be. Cooney is a writer I didn’t know anything about, but now need to read more of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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