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… the Impotent Air-raid Siren of 400,000 Human Voices

By Pechorin

The Quickening, by Michael Bishop

I’ve done a guest post for Joachim Boaz, who has a rather marvelous SF blog here.

It’s a review of Michael Bishop’s award winning novelette, The Quickening. Novelette’s a new term for me, it seems to mean a long short story published outside of a short story collection context. I’m not surprised the term didn’t catch on, but the story’s good.

Here’s the cover:

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The review is at Joachim’s, as are a great many well-written reviews of classic SF novels and covers. It’s a fun site, and even if you don’t find SF interesting his book-cover discussions may well still grab you.


Filed under: Bishop, Michael, Novellas, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged: Michael Bishop
… the impotent air-raid siren of 400,000 human voices

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