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bookaneer's review
4.0
Rating for Christopher Caldwell's Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan.
What is it with these stories about sailors and the deep? To be frank, the story itself probably is a 3.5 star for me but then the added sea element just elevates it to a new level. Just like the Nibedita Sen's story Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep last year. However I do wish I have more info on the lore that played an important role in the MC's endeavor here.
What is it with these stories about sailors and the deep? To be frank, the story itself probably is a 3.5 star for me but then the added sea element just elevates it to a new level. Just like the Nibedita Sen's story Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep last year. However I do wish I have more info on the lore that played an important role in the MC's endeavor here.
8bitlapras's review
4.0
Fiction
Nice Things by Ellen Klages: 4.25/5
Probabilitea by John Chu: 3.75/5
A Salt and Sterling Tongue by Emma Osborne: 4.5/5
Lest We Forget by Elizabeth Bear: 5/5
A Catalog of Love at First Sight by Brit E. B. Hvide: 4.75/5
Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan by Christopher Caldwell: 4.25/5
Corpse Soldier by Kameron Hurley: 2/5
Non-fiction
Black Horror Rising by Tananarive Due: 4/5
Everyone's World is Ending All the Time: Notes on becoming a climate resilience planner at the edge of the Anthropocene by Arkady Martine: 2/5 (really disappointed with this one because Arkady Martine wrote probably my favourite book of the year, A Memory Called Empire, but this was just WAY too full of academic jargon and inaccessible for me because I know next to nothing about city planning)
Toy Stories by Gwenda Bond: 3/5
"You Have Only Your Trust in Me": Star Trek and the Power of Mutual Belief by Nicasio Andres Reed: 4/5
Poetry
Again, I refuse to rate poetry because it's not for me and I just don't enjoy most of it, but I did find something personally meaningful in both The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly by Theodora Goss and Flashover by S. Qiouyi Lu.
Average rating: 3.77/5, rounded to 3.75/5.
Nice Things by Ellen Klages: 4.25/5
Probabilitea by John Chu: 3.75/5
A Salt and Sterling Tongue by Emma Osborne: 4.5/5
Lest We Forget by Elizabeth Bear: 5/5
A Catalog of Love at First Sight by Brit E. B. Hvide: 4.75/5
Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan by Christopher Caldwell: 4.25/5
Corpse Soldier by Kameron Hurley: 2/5
Non-fiction
Black Horror Rising by Tananarive Due: 4/5
Everyone's World is Ending All the Time: Notes on becoming a climate resilience planner at the edge of the Anthropocene by Arkady Martine: 2/5 (really disappointed with this one because Arkady Martine wrote probably my favourite book of the year, A Memory Called Empire, but this was just WAY too full of academic jargon and inaccessible for me because I know next to nothing about city planning)
Toy Stories by Gwenda Bond: 3/5
"You Have Only Your Trust in Me": Star Trek and the Power of Mutual Belief by Nicasio Andres Reed: 4/5
Poetry
Again, I refuse to rate poetry because it's not for me and I just don't enjoy most of it, but I did find something personally meaningful in both The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly by Theodora Goss and Flashover by S. Qiouyi Lu.
Average rating: 3.77/5, rounded to 3.75/5.
crunden's review
5.0
The fire is her mother’s arms, it is the love
in her mother’s breast, as hot as a train furnace.
If you have that kind of love, not even death
can defeat it.
AMAZING POEM IS AMAZING.
Theodora Goss's 'The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly' is definitely worth a read. I totally recommend this one! It's Cinderella with a twist. Read it here.
paulweymouth's review
4.0
Great issue from Uncanny. Here are the stories rated from my favorite to the least favorite:
Nice Things by Ellen Klages - 4.5
A Catalog of Love at First Sight by Brit E.B. Hvide - 4
A Salt and Sterling Tongue by Emma Osborne - 3.5
Reprint: Corpse Soldier by Kameron Hurley - 3.5
Probabilitea by John Chu - 3
Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan by Christopher Caldwell - 3
Lest We Forget by Elizabeth Bear - 1
Nice Things by Ellen Klages - 4.5
A Catalog of Love at First Sight by Brit E.B. Hvide - 4
A Salt and Sterling Tongue by Emma Osborne - 3.5
Reprint: Corpse Soldier by Kameron Hurley - 3.5
Probabilitea by John Chu - 3
Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan by Christopher Caldwell - 3
Lest We Forget by Elizabeth Bear - 1
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