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review 2015-02-17 17:35
A Stranger in Olondria
A Stranger in Olondria - Sofia Samatar

I’ve been meaning to read Samatar’s debut since it came out two years ago. It’s a really engrossing book, which probably deserves more space than I can give it here. It’s about family and myth and home, about history and colonialism. But most of all it’s about books, and a relationship with books. Samatar’s language is dense and beautiful, with occasional moments of iridescent beauty. I thought for awhile about why it’s adult rather than YA, since I can easily read Jevick as in his late teens (I can’t remember how clearly his age is given). But in that nebulous “you’ll know it when you see it way,” it does seem quite clearly adult. I think there’s a lack of immediacy to the story–it’s so clearly Jevick looking back over his past–and that’s the closest I can come to saying what I mean. Regardless, it was a fascinating book, and I’m still mulling over it several days later.

Source: bysinginglight.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/recent-reading-black-bradshaw-echols-samatar
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url 2014-02-25 21:10
Nebula Nominees!
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel - Neil Gaiman,Neil Gaiman
Fire with Fire - Charles E. Gannon
Hild - Nicola Griffith
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
The Red: First Light - Linda Nagata
A Stranger in Olondria - Sofia Samatar
The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA, weirdly, because the acronym is missing an F) has announced the nominations for the Nebula Award today. I'm pretty jazzed about the list. Last year I stunt read all of the novel nominees, and maybe I'll do that again. Seems like a stronger list of novels, so it's not like I'll be disappointed.

 

Many of the publishers make the shorter fictions available online in the run-up; maybe I'll hunt around for some links when I'm less lazy. Here's "Selkies Stories are for Losers" by Sofia Samatar (who is also nominated in the novel category) because Joel already found that for me. It's aces. 

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