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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 110 by Krista Hoeppner Leahy, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Xia Jia, Tim Sullivan, Sara Saab, Neil Clarke, Nin Harris, Mark Cole, Ellen Kushner, Ken Liu, Cixin Liu, Naomi Kritzer, Chris Urie
4.0
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu (read 5.7.2020)
It was good and very short! About a mysterious poet whose life nobody knows anything about, but a loyal bunch of readers still keep her memory alive through the love of her poetry. As always the translation by Ken Liu was superb.
So much cooking by Naomi Kritzer (read 4.5.2020)
A pandemic told through a food blog is exactly the kind of thing that would have seemed fun a few months ago and now it felt like reading non-fiction, being on an actual blog. It got so many things right and it's impossible to read it without comparing it to our current situation, but trying to stay objective I can say that I thought it was a great piece of, uh, "fiction", and it managed to describe the character's quarantine situation perfectly.
I would recommend reading this when you feel ready because as I said it feels very close to what we're all going through with COVID19. It's reading a piece of what was written with "dystopia" in mind and realizing it's basically reality (the only things that are different are the mortality rate and the type of virus).
It was good and very short! About a mysterious poet whose life nobody knows anything about, but a loyal bunch of readers still keep her memory alive through the love of her poetry. As always the translation by Ken Liu was superb.
So much cooking by Naomi Kritzer (read 4.5.2020)
A pandemic told through a food blog is exactly the kind of thing that would have seemed fun a few months ago and now it felt like reading non-fiction, being on an actual blog. It got so many things right and it's impossible to read it without comparing it to our current situation, but trying to stay objective I can say that I thought it was a great piece of, uh, "fiction", and it managed to describe the character's quarantine situation perfectly.
I would recommend reading this when you feel ready because as I said it feels very close to what we're all going through with COVID19. It's reading a piece of what was written with "dystopia" in mind and realizing it's basically reality (the only things that are different are the mortality rate and the type of virus).