/lit/ - Literature

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Amaryllis and Other Stories (2016) - Carrie Vaughn

The Best We Can (2013)
An astronomer discovers that a near-Earth asteroid is actually an artificial object created by extraterrestrials. Crab mentality on a global scale ensues. I laughed a lot at this dark comedy. I'd like to say it's satirical, but I don't know that it would be.
Enjoyable

Strife Lingers In Memory (2002)
The Heir defeats The Enemy and returns with PTSD. By day he is a paragon of heroism but by night he's a tormented wretch. His newlywed wife feels overwhelmed until she accepts that only many years of tender love and care may soothe his mind. It also serves as a commentary on narratives. If it had more of the commentary I would've rated it higher.
Ok

A Hunter’s Ode To His Bait (2003)
A hunter buys a girl to use as bait for a beast that only approaches virgin maidens. This was a rather sensual tale.
Highly Enjoyable

Sun, Stone, Spear (2015)
Two young girls leave their village seeking to fulfill their dreams. The setting seem to be where was an apocalypse a long time ago and most, if not all, have reverted to the stone age without almost any knowledge of what came before. It's interesting, but entirely a tease.
Ok

Crows (2006)
A man awakens to a field of corpses. The battle has been lost. His lord lay dead beside him. He could only protect what remained from whatever may come.
Meh

Salvage (2014) [Trade Guild]
A Trade Guild crew inspects a derelict Trade Guild spaceship to determine the cause of its failure and salvage what they can. Nothing more or less. Not as fun as I thought it may be. This would've been better as part of a much longer story.
Meh

Draw Thy Breath In Pain (2005)
Horatio, a man literally possessed to tell his story, meets the playwright William Shakespeare and passes on the possession, forcing him against his will to write his story.
Enjoyable

The Girl With The Pre-Raphaelite Hair (1999)
A telepathic girl is seized by a mad scientist who puts an AI into her mind so that it can learn and become the first conscious AI. <spoiler> The AI learns that to be human is to suffer so deeply that it's better to have never been.</spoiler>
Meh

Game Of Chance (2013)
A group of individuals outside of time try to alter the world through indirect means because any direct action taken by them results in their demise. It's also a story about how to effectively bring about societal change.
Ok

Roaring Twenties (2014)
An urban fantasy crime adventure in a warded nightclub exclusive to those with magic and the supernatural.
Ok

A Riddle In Nine Syllables (2000)
On planet Tiga 32-A the Chief Xeno-ecologist is parasitized. The story is told from her perspective. It's about never wanting to be a mother, motherhood, rape, abortion, birth, the conscious mind being overcome by primal biological instincts, and the nature of sentience. It's never stated, but the title probably refers to the scientific name given to the parasite.
Ok