The magic of silver helps tell a terrible true story of colonialism through a fantasy lens. The story of language, and meaning, and the magic of that which gets lost in translation. The story of losing one’s motherland, while never being accepted in your adopted country.
Non-linear storytelling at its finest. Sometimes the future happens in the past. And sometimes the past is best remembered as alien abductions. Affiliate Link
A witch and a genius/mad scientist fall in love, then break up, then just about end the world. I love the way the author, Charlie Jane Anders, swings between fantasy and sci-fi — as the protagonists attempt to reconcile technology and nature. Technology arrives as both saviour and destroyer, and “every designer of cool hardware” ends …
