Honestly, I shouldn’t have read “Shannach—The Last.” I didn’t have time, and it was clearly too long for the Baen anthology. But that opening paragraph— “It was dark in the caves under Mercury. It was hot, and there was no…
Tag: Space Opera
All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton
I spent the evening binging on James Tiptree, Jr, who is, I’ve decided, not a writer to binge on. Wonderful stories, but dark and often depressing. Breathtaking, suspenseful, and down. So I took a break and read an Andre Norton…
The Halfling by Leigh Brackett
Okay, anyone who has come to the anthology workshop that Dean and I hold in the early part of the year knows that I don’t like carnival stories. I fell in love with Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes and…
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
I always feel at a disadvantage when I read a story I’d heard about forever. Especially a story that I’ve been told I’ll love, a story that someone felt I had to read right now. I’m such a contrary cuss…