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mary_soon_lee's review
The stories in this issue of F&SF range from planet-hopping science fiction, to alternate history, to high fantasy. They deal with postal problems, real estate problems, necromancy problems. My favorites were two of the novelettes: Auston Habershaw's "The Masochist's Assistant," which is a wonderful, humorous, compassionate tale of a man reluctantly assisting a maverick sorcerer, and Justin C. Key's "Afiya's Song," which is a hard, unflinching, compassionate tale of slavery. I note that "Afiya's Song" was upsetting, yet I was glad to have read it. I also particularly enjoyed Gardner Dozois's brief yet warm "A Dog's Story," David Erik Nelson's lengthy yet engrossing "There Was a Crooked Man, He Flipped a Crooked House," and Marissa Lingen's unexpected take on death and the gods in "An Unearned Death." This is another fine issue of a fine magazine.
N.B. I appreciate the tie-ins to the fiction that crop up in the classifieds page of F&SF, which this time includes an entry inspired by Sean Adams's "An Obstruction to Delivery."
N.B. I appreciate the tie-ins to the fiction that crop up in the classifieds page of F&SF, which this time includes an entry inspired by Sean Adams's "An Obstruction to Delivery."
vdarcangelo's review
4.0
"An Obstruction to Delivery" by Sean Adams is phenomenal, a George Saunders-esque romp through an eccentric, subterranean postal service.
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