Lake of Souls

The Collected Short Fiction

eBook, 415 pages

English language

Published March 13, 2024 by Orbit Books.

ISBN:
978-0-316-55357-5
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4 stars (6 reviews)

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, forever changing its landscape with her groundbreaking ideas and powerful voice. Now, available for the first time comes the complete collection of Leckie's short fiction, including a brand new novelette, “Lake of Souls.”

Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe.

Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled the Raven Tower.

Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls.

And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction collection from award-winning author Ann Leckie.

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Review of 'Lake of Souls' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I have been a long-time Ann Leckie fan, but in long-form I only enjoyed the Imperial Radch books, and I don't usually enjoy short stories at all, so I was hesitant approaching this, but it was mind-blowingly good. Each story had a new take, even when it felt like it was going to retread speculative fiction genre conventions. Almost all of the stories were about negotiation, persuasion and diplomacy and I liked that it felt like they were in dialogue with each other, but each story had a unique perspective to add.

I thought the first third, the stand alone stories, were shockingly the strongest: I really liked the first-contact and symbiosis set up of the titular story, which really immersed me in the setting and world very quickly.

Hesperia and Glory also packed a punch in its short pages, about how perception defines reality

Another Word for World, which …

reviewed Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie

Probably mostly for actual fans of short stories

3 stars

As a huge fan of Ann Leckie, but not someone who generally enjoys short stories very much, this was a bit mixed bag for me. I enjoyed the final two stories the most, the penultimate being the absolute delight that is "Saving Bacon". I loved it, and I love Slale Vachash-Troer and his family so, so much.

Goodreads Review of Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie

5 stars

Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie is a fantastic collection of works that showcase the author's innovative and deeply creative approach to fantasy and science fiction writing. This was a wonderful and extensive variety of stories from her Imperial Radch Universe, her Raven Tower Universe, and stand alone works as well. I couldn't get enough of these and, to varying degrees, found myself enjoying each and every one. So much so, that I actually wanted to take the effort to individually rate each one very briefly!

First up, we have her stories that are independent, unassociated with either of her existing universes.

Lake of Souls - 5 stars, love it. Love the mix between a short, sweet coming of age story and the almost shocking body horror for such a short story.

Footprints - 2 stars, just too short. Brief introduction to something uncanny, but not long enough to actually …

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