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Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions by Wendy Xu, Charlotte Nicole Davis, Elizabeth Bear, A.S. King, Junauda Petrus-Nasah, William Alexander, Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson, E.C. Myers, A.R. Capetta, K. Ancrum, Wade Roush
3.5
I'm not the biggest sci-fi person, I really haven't read much of the genre, which is something I'm aiming to change this year. For a non sci-fi reader like me, Tasting Light felt like nothing I've ever experienced before. Here are ten sci-fi stories that are so richly diverse, with so many black and queer voices to be heard. Which is something I've been desperately seeking out in novels for a while now.
In this novel you'll find intimate stories of body modding, and pen pals stretching across the galaxy, to stories of forceful, dystopian societies and almost everything in between. Each and every one of these stories had such a personal, thoughtful feel to them. Out of the entire collection my favorite stories were, Cadence, The Cage, Smile River, and Extremophiles. While there wasn't any bad stories in this bunch, as with any anthology, you're going to get the occasional story that just doesn't hit quite as hard. Though I will say, even the stories that weren't quite for me, were absolutely still enjoyable.
In this novel you'll find intimate stories of body modding, and pen pals stretching across the galaxy, to stories of forceful, dystopian societies and almost everything in between. Each and every one of these stories had such a personal, thoughtful feel to them. Out of the entire collection my favorite stories were, Cadence, The Cage, Smile River, and Extremophiles. While there wasn't any bad stories in this bunch, as with any anthology, you're going to get the occasional story that just doesn't hit quite as hard. Though I will say, even the stories that weren't quite for me, were absolutely still enjoyable.