/lit/ - Literature

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Alvin And The Apple Tree - Orson Scott Card [The Alvin Maker Saga]
1820 Hio. Alvin Maker talks theology with Johnny Appleseed and they do religious metaphors.
Meh

Madam Damnable’s Sewing Circle - Elizabeth Bear [Karen Memory]
1899 Washington. Madam Damnable runs a voluntary brothel for teenage girls who don't have anywhere else to go. One day a teenage liberator of enslaved and prostituted children stumbles in seeking sanctuary.
Meh

Strong Medicine - Tad Williams
1899 Arizona. Every 39 years the town of Medicine Dance becomes violently unstuck in time for a short while. He arrives knowing this and prepares for the worst.
Ok

Red Dreams - Jonathan Maberry
1875 Wyoming. The sole survivor of his military troop sent to eradicate the natives sees a falling star, but it makes no sound upon impact, then visions begin and he can't believe his lying eyes.
Meh

Bamboozled - Kelley Armstrong [Otherworld]
1877 Dakota. A posse is on route to bamboozle a man looking for a new wife after the previous mysteriously died after she complained overly much. The woman to be his wife isn't concerned at all, because she knows her lover isn't quite human.
Ok

Sundown - Tobias S. Buckell
1877 Colorado. A Black Marshal comes into a town where the residents warn him that if he stays past dark he won't leave alive. He's on the search for the parasites that infect men and take over their bodies.
Meh

La Madre Del Oro - Jeffrey Ford
1856 New Mexico. A man is hired to be part of a posse hunting down Bastard George The Cannibal, but they find something far worse.
Meh

What I Assume You Shall Assume - Ken Liu
1890 Idaho. A Union deserter meets a Chinese woman who deserted the Taiping Rebellion and shows him that words are magical. They both recount stories of their time spent in war.
Ok

The Devil’s Jack - Laura Anne Gilman [The Devil's West]
1801 NE of the Canyon. He lost it all on a single gamble and now he did the devil's bidding, most of the time anyway.
Blah

The Golden Age - Walter Jon Williams
1852 California. What if the dynamics of the Golden Age superheroes, especially that of Batman, took place in the Old West? The story is told from perspective of one of the villains.
Enjoyable

Neversleeps - Fred Van Lente
Monument Valley, 120 years after the Awakening.
120 years ago magic returned to the world and much technology was outlawed. He's on a mission to rescue the greatest scientific criminal of their times, the woman known as Nicola Tesla.
Meh

Dead Man’s Hand - Christie Yant
Dakota 1876. A series of various ways that James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickock could've died or lived.
Ok