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A review by catbooking
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2020 edition by Charlie Jane Anders
4.0
Tor collections are usually all win for me. This time there were more than a couple of stories that just did not grab me. On top of that, there seems to have been a theme running through a lot of these stories, a theme of rape/sexual assault/abuse. And while the theme and the exploration of the topic are important, having to read story after story about people suffering in that one specific way from that one specific sort of trauma got too much too fast. I think that is in part why so many stories did not grab me, feeling emotionally exhausted I did not want to put in extra work to keep my attention.
That said, there were many really good stories that are worth checking out. The list of the ones I enjoyed is below.
St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk
Sinew And Steel And What They Told by Carrie Vaughn
Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer
Anything Resembling Love by S. Qiouyi Lu
Two Truths And And A Lie by Sarah Pinsker
The Ones Who Look by Katharine Duckett
Everything’s Fine by Matthew Pridham
Yellow And The Perception Of Reality by Maureen McHugh
Exile’s End by Carolyn Ives Gilman
Flight by Claire Wrenwood
Wait For Night by Stephen Graham Jones
Placed Into Abyss by Rachel Swirsky
City Of Red Midnight by Usman T. Malik
That said, there were many really good stories that are worth checking out. The list of the ones I enjoyed is below.
St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk
Sinew And Steel And What They Told by Carrie Vaughn
Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer
Anything Resembling Love by S. Qiouyi Lu
Two Truths And And A Lie by Sarah Pinsker
The Ones Who Look by Katharine Duckett
Everything’s Fine by Matthew Pridham
Yellow And The Perception Of Reality by Maureen McHugh
Exile’s End by Carolyn Ives Gilman
Flight by Claire Wrenwood
Wait For Night by Stephen Graham Jones
Placed Into Abyss by Rachel Swirsky
City Of Red Midnight by Usman T. Malik