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A Wound Like an Unplowed Field by Max Wynne. I like the slowness of the magic in this story. It feels organic, the way change happens, no matter how much we demand instant results. I also like the quirky relationship. There's a warmth to it, although it's ambiguous enough that I was hesitant about posting this. The author commentary on the story brought more light to the ambiguity.

Notes from Liminal Spaces by Hiromi Goto. A story with oddness and desperation that feels coolly distant, interleaved with commentary by the author that feels warmly personal, even the parts that are literary analysis. The combination feels full of possibilities and hope.

The Secret Life of Bots by Suzanne Palmer. It turns out that being obsolete and out of date can be a source of hope.

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jesse_the_k

Oh! I’m a big Hiromi Goto fan — she writes from a place that’s both specific and eternal. Thanks for the refs.

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sonia

All these authors were new to me. I'm always glad to know more great authors!

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jesse_the_k

Are a novel, "the kappa child" and a graphic novel, “the half world.”

Her GoH speech from WisCon a few years ago:

https://www.hiromigoto.com/wiscon38-guest-of-honour-speech/

She's also one of the few re@sons I regret abandoning Twitter: her feed is an unending variety of sharp observations and lovely photographs.

https://mobile.twitter.com/hinganai

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sonia

Thanks for the recs! Read the GoH speech, and placed two holds at the library.

I loved the nature photographs in her Twitter feed, but I too have backed off from Twitter. Too many ads and stomach-twisting politics for me. (Glad people are out there expressing their resistance to the current regime. Currently too saturated in the helpless frustration and terror I feel when I read them.)

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sonia

I got the two Goto books from the library, and it turns out they're two grim for me right now. I could take the amount of grimness in the short story, but it piles up too much for me in a longer work. Perhaps some other time! Thanks for the recs anyway!