Stuff I Edited, 2017
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rushthatspeaksEverything I edited that's coming out this year is out, so here's the list:
The Lights We Carried Home, Kay Chronister. Dark fantasy set in Cambodia. Good sense of place, doesn't follow the expected story beats.
Terra nullius, by Hanuš Seiner, translated from the Czech by Julie Nováková. This was the first time I worked with a translator, and it turns out to be totally and completely different from working with an author directly-- incredibly difficult, but intensely rewarding in the end. I think it turned out very well. Future-set SF with really lovely aliens. They're the best aliens I've run into anywhere in some years.
Lacuna, Lane Robins. Old-school secondary-world fantasy reminiscent of C. L. Moore, except that nowadays you can tell some of the sexist tropes baked into that sort of story to go directly to hell, which Robins does.
Le lundi de la matraque (Nightstick Monday), Claire Humphrey. Lesbian sexual tension, an astonishing sense of Montreal as a city, and a whole lot more circled around than is ever stated outright.
Darner, Jonathan Laidlow. If you are into urban studies, read this. If you like seeing fictional cities depicted really well, read this. Also if you like Diana Wynne Jones' Time of the Ghost.
A Slumbering Storm, Rafaela Ferraz. This is the sort of thing people are always calling magical realism, which are words I fall back on with a sigh. Hotel, and sleep, and lack of rest, and the whole thing has such a gossamer touch that it's really not describable.
Watershed, Allison Jamieson-Lucy. This reminds me very strongly of the young Le Guin, and is also entirely itself. Those are both high compliments in my vocabulary.
Them Boys, Nora Anthony. You have not read this mermaid story before. At all. Seriously. This one's new. (Unless you have read this specific story, right here at the link, previously, in which case carry on.)
Sasabonsam, Tara Campbell. A monster in the dark.
... okay, no wonder I'm tired, that's a lot. And it's a selection I'm quite proud of, too, with some range in genre and mood. The major themes seem to be 'cities' and 'fuck sexism', and I am all right with that.
Also, though I didn't end up editing this one, we are all still giggling about it months later, and I do not know how to express quite how delighted I am by Jamie Wahls' Utopia, LOL?. Comedy is difficult, but I think Wahls pulls it off.
The Lights We Carried Home, Kay Chronister. Dark fantasy set in Cambodia. Good sense of place, doesn't follow the expected story beats.
Terra nullius, by Hanuš Seiner, translated from the Czech by Julie Nováková. This was the first time I worked with a translator, and it turns out to be totally and completely different from working with an author directly-- incredibly difficult, but intensely rewarding in the end. I think it turned out very well. Future-set SF with really lovely aliens. They're the best aliens I've run into anywhere in some years.
Lacuna, Lane Robins. Old-school secondary-world fantasy reminiscent of C. L. Moore, except that nowadays you can tell some of the sexist tropes baked into that sort of story to go directly to hell, which Robins does.
Le lundi de la matraque (Nightstick Monday), Claire Humphrey. Lesbian sexual tension, an astonishing sense of Montreal as a city, and a whole lot more circled around than is ever stated outright.
Darner, Jonathan Laidlow. If you are into urban studies, read this. If you like seeing fictional cities depicted really well, read this. Also if you like Diana Wynne Jones' Time of the Ghost.
A Slumbering Storm, Rafaela Ferraz. This is the sort of thing people are always calling magical realism, which are words I fall back on with a sigh. Hotel, and sleep, and lack of rest, and the whole thing has such a gossamer touch that it's really not describable.
Watershed, Allison Jamieson-Lucy. This reminds me very strongly of the young Le Guin, and is also entirely itself. Those are both high compliments in my vocabulary.
Them Boys, Nora Anthony. You have not read this mermaid story before. At all. Seriously. This one's new. (Unless you have read this specific story, right here at the link, previously, in which case carry on.)
Sasabonsam, Tara Campbell. A monster in the dark.
... okay, no wonder I'm tired, that's a lot. And it's a selection I'm quite proud of, too, with some range in genre and mood. The major themes seem to be 'cities' and 'fuck sexism', and I am all right with that.
Also, though I didn't end up editing this one, we are all still giggling about it months later, and I do not know how to express quite how delighted I am by Jamie Wahls' Utopia, LOL?. Comedy is difficult, but I think Wahls pulls it off.
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Date: 2017-12-20 06:21 pm (UTC)ETA: Of the ones I've read so far, the one I really loved was "Watershed." The ending was the perfect resolution for the story.
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