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    Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
    Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
    Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
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    Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

    By Hugh Howey, Charlie Jane Anders, Jeff VanderMeer and Tricia Reeks

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    Twenty-six brilliant speculative fiction stories about love, and the pain that so often accompanies it. Enjoy a cornucopia of imaginative tales, wondrous settings, and unforgettable characters—such as the disillusioned time traveler who visits ancient Japan to experience a "Moment of Zen" the young woman from planet Kiruna who can only communicate in song when the moonlet Saarakka is up, and the sorcerer who loses their happiness in a bet with a demon.

    Rich and wonderfully diverse, this collection spans many speculative fiction genres: from SciFi to Dystopian, from Fantasy to Magical Realism, from Steampunk to Superhero, from Horror to Weird. Sometimes funny, occasionally happy, frequently gut-wrenching—these stories will take your heart on a wild emotional ride.

    Stories by Jeff VanderMeer, Hugh Howey, Karin Tidbeck, Charlie Jane Anders, Holly Phillips, Aliette de Bodard, A. Merc Rustad, Steve Simpson, Mel Paisley, J. D. Brink, Matt Leivers, Michael Milne, Michal Wojcik, Carla Dash, Terry Durbin, Michelle Ann King, Kyle Richardson, Leah Brown, G. Scott Huggins, Dan Micklethwaite, Victoria Zelvin, Shannon Phillips, Keith Frady, Jody Sollazzo, David Stevens, and Morgen Knight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMeerkat Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9780996626231
    Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
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    Hugh Howey

    Hugh Howey is the New York Times and USA Today bestsell­ing author of the Silo Series: Wool, Shift, and Dust; Beacon 23; Sand; Half Way Home; and Machine Learning. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold millions of copies world­wide. Adapted from his bestselling sci-fi trilogy, Silo is now streaming on Apple TV+ and Beacon 23 is streaming on MGM+. Howey lives in New York with his wife, Shay.

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    • 3/5
      My enjoyment of anthologies is heavily dependent upon how much of our tastes the editor(s) and I share. In this case, I found the anthology to be uneven and DNFed many stories.

      The deBodard and Tidbeck reprints were wonderful. Tidbeck's story, especially, appealed to me for what it had to say about disability being less about the individual and more about the society they're in.

      "Back to Where I Know You" by Victoria Zelvin is a sad story of love in a dystopian society.

      [I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review.]

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