the all consuming world by cassandra khaw

The first book in this series also came out in summer 2019.

Djèli Clark, Nalo Hopkinson, José Pablo Iriarte, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more.Ĭhuck Wendig’s Wanderers predicted a global crisis which would come to be known, in the world it reshapes, as the White Mask pandemic.

Karen Russell conjures a mythical creature on Garbage Thursday, of all days, in “The Cloud Lake Unicorn.” And in Maria Dong’s “The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han,” the ineffable contagion racing from person to person is grief. Kel Coleman’s “Delete Your First Memory for Free” teases how utterly freeing our existence would be if we weren’t weighing ourselves down with reliving cringey moments. But what’s even better is that these moments and stakes don’t have to be fate-of-humanity levels. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca RoanhorseĪs guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse shares in her introduction, she selected many of this year’s 20 SFF stories for how they depict human connection, albeit in speculative ways, during the physical and figurative isolation of covid. But as the avatars face deportation (because they are still only human) or the temptation to become the avatar for another great city (Chicago is knocking), they must figure out the best way to save the Big Apple from getting literally wiped off the map. The Great Cities duology concludes with New York City’s human avatars (each representing a borough made flesh) mounting a stand against the Woman in White, who represents the encroaching Lovecraftian interdimensional city of R’lyeh. And if you’re hankering for the personal accomplishment of finishing a series, N.K. But of course, there are also plenty of wonderful novels coming out this month. I can’t be the only one excited to feast twice on Thanksgiving, right? Obviously the food spread, complete with your own personal traditions and specific dishes, but also the time to catch up on reading! This month’s TBR is a cornucopia of delights in the form of several SFF collections, ranging from individual authors’ bodies of work to anthologies looking back on 2022 and reexamining fairy tales through queer and otherwise diverse lenses.

The all consuming world by cassandra khaw