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A review by enbyglitch
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 by John Joseph Adams, Charles Yu
5.0
Another jaw-dropping collection of short stories. Similar to the 2018 collection, a lot of these stories focus on the sheer horror of living in even pre-Trump 2016 America as a minority.
"Vulcanization" by Nisi Shawl and "The Venus Effect" by Joseph Allen Hill are among the most brutally honest in the stories they tell of never-ending abuse.
"Smear" and "I've come to Marry the Princess" were really interesting psychological stories that I still don't quite have the answers to, and "Successor, Usurper, Replacement" tries to fit into that category as well but I have an even harder time grasping its meaning.
I simply have to mention N.K. Jemisin's "The City Born Great", even though I had already read it as the prologue to her amazing novel, "The City We Became". Her worldbuilding grips me to my core, and this story is one of my all time favorites.
A lot of these stories can be found for free online, check them out!
"Vulcanization" by Nisi Shawl and "The Venus Effect" by Joseph Allen Hill are among the most brutally honest in the stories they tell of never-ending abuse.
"Smear" and "I've come to Marry the Princess" were really interesting psychological stories that I still don't quite have the answers to, and "Successor, Usurper, Replacement" tries to fit into that category as well but I have an even harder time grasping its meaning.
I simply have to mention N.K. Jemisin's "The City Born Great", even though I had already read it as the prologue to her amazing novel, "The City We Became". Her worldbuilding grips me to my core, and this story is one of my all time favorites.
A lot of these stories can be found for free online, check them out!