Something Strange on the Horizon, part II

[spqrblues]

Something to read while the comic is on this weird hiatus: Brownman concludes on Monday. Part I is here. If you feel moved to leave a comment on the Strange Horizons message board, that'd be a cool thing.

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[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

Or at least I blogged about it here to let a few more people know about it. (grin) Or at least the half-dozen people who stop by my LJ from time to time. (double-grin)

Lovely, lovely story. Let's face it, wishes are jest plain trouble...

Dr. Phil

[cyanocorax.livejournal.com]

That comment board is pretty intimidating. At the very least, we should all go look at the thread so at least the views are respectable.

I don't have anything brilliant to say to start off discussion. But I looked at the threads for other stories and the standards are pretty low. Will probably copy some comments from here to there.

I could say the story is haunting but that would kind of be a given, right? Of course I love it, not the least because it is totally different (in some ways) from your SPQR Blues work.

There's so much going on here -- coming of age, the thin line between reality and fantasy, the richness of the source culture, family dynamics, racial equality. And of course the language and setting make it very tangible. I imagine it took a lot of time to research and write just for those. I'm still trying to understand the ending.

In fact, so much is packed into a two part story I wonder if it should have been a novella. Or maybe that's part of the appeal, that it is so dense it has more impact.