Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
5 stars
Playful and with a nod to Octavia Butler
Playful and with a nod to Octavia Butler
I'm such a fan of Sarah Pinsker's writing.
These stories are not flashy. Many of them feel like glimpses into everyday moments - yes, moments filled with narwhal cars, sirens, multidimensional travel, and memory suppression technology, but the magic of these stories lies in their innate humanness, their focus on characters over setting and speculative tropes.
I'm left with a handful of feelings and reactions after reading this collection: sadness, recognition, thoughtfulness... and hope.
Haunting and sweetly scifi, the last four stories (Wind Will Rove, Our Lady of the Open Road, The Narwhal, And Then There Were N-One) especially.