Reviews

Lightspeed Magazine, April 2020 by John Joseph Adams

tani's review against another edition

4.0

Review for "Glass Bottle Dancer" only, read because it's on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2020. Inspired by the death of someone she admired, Mable decides to teach herself glass bottle dancing. This was a fun little story about a woman finally taking the time to learn to do something just for fun, rather than for productivity. The tone is engaging and the story was easy to slip into, despite the dialect. I quickly found myself growing attached to Mable, and the addition of the cockroaches was a slightly ridiculous, but amusing touch. Nice and uplifting.

crunden's review

4.0

Among their stories, the strangest is this one: The Blue believe that each of them is one-half of a whole.

I read Vandana Singh's A Subtle Web: A Tale From the Somadeva Chronicles. Available here. It reads like an origin story or ancient legend. I really liked it!

faesissa's review

'The Witch Speaks' by Rati Mehrotra is my standout for this edition of Lightspeed.