Time for Sunday recs! I’ve been reading some excellent stuff lately – poetry too, but let’s go for prose first. <\/p>\n
Story recs<\/b> My second rec is an SF story about spices, asteroids, and the fluidity of gender – Alex Dally MacFarlane’s Found<\/a>, in Clarkesworld<\/a>. Reading it, I could taste the spices in my mouth. Also, it’s wonderful to read stories with characters who don’t fit the gender binary! “I finally realized, two years later, chewing thyme on an outlying asteroid where six people stubbornly survived, that I was like Thyme: ill-suited to ‘boy’ or ‘girl.'”<\/p>\n Final story rec: Super Bass<\/a> by Kai Ashante Wilson on Tor.com<\/a>. This is really good – such lush language, really cool dialect stuff. I love reading stories where the writer has really thought about the language, and this is definitely one of them. Also in the story: different gender presentations and polyamorous family structures; and a non-conflict plot! <\/p>\n
\nSo, zombies are pretty much everywhere these days, but I haven’t actually read that much zombie fiction. (My consumption has been in the form of comics and films.) This story in Niteblade<\/a> is a really good zombie story, though, told from an interesting perspective: Compassion, During and After the Fall<\/a>, by Cory Cone. <\/p>\n