When renegade author Kameron Hurley ( The Light Brigade; The Stars Are Legion) takes you to the future, be prepared for the unexpected. Yes, it will be dangerous, frequently brutal, and often devastating. But it's also savagely funny, deliriously strange, and absolutely brimming with adventure.
In these edgy, unexpected tales, a body-hopping mercenary avenges his pet elephant, and an orphan falls in love with a sentient star ship. Fighters ally to power a reality-bending engine, and a swamp-dwelling introvert tries to save the world-from her plague-casting former wife.
So come meet Kameron Hurley in the future. The version she's created here is weirder-and far more hopeful-than you could ever imagine.
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[BODIES ARE ONLY BEAUTIFUL when they aren't yours ELEPHANTS AND CORPSES]***
(@TachyonPub, 20 August 2019, 288 pages, ebook, ARC from @TachyonPub and voluntarily reviewed)
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I've only read one book by the author, Apocalypse NYX. I clearly have been missing out. I love short story collections. I try to read a few every year. A short story is perfect for reading in small dibs and drabs. I don't often read science fiction so wasn't sure what to expect her. I enjoyed every story in this collection. Some of the stories are based on characters and events from her other fiction which made me want to read more of her work. I love the range and diversity of the stories. They are a crazy mix that somehow works. The stand out story is When We Fall which blew me away. I also loved Elephants And Corpses.
