Neptune Stories
December 30th, 2020 by G.
I recommend the Planetary Anthology: Neptune. It was better quality and more even quality than I remember recent anthologies being. One story was literally gay, but other than that . . .
The story Sea Change was good. It pulled off the trick of making you think there was a deep, rich world behind the story while only showing you the few glimpses necessary for the story. In particular, the actual world-feature that provides the narrative drive is only briefly mentioned in a couple of scattered sentences. Good story with real moral weight, one I would recommend even if it didn’t have the word ‘sennight.’ One cannot trust pseudonyms these days, but on internal evidence I would think it was written by a woman.
Beth Buck
December 30, 2020
If you are interested in anthologies, I would be willing to supply you with several anthologies Mormon Steampunk short stories (ebook format) in an exchange for a review.
William James Tychonievich
December 30, 2020
“One story was literally gay”
Obviously a mistake on the part of the editors. It was meant for the Uranus anthology.
E.C.
December 30, 2020
Thanks! I’m glad you liked it; Sea Change is in fact part of the mythos of my own ‘secondary’ world, which, in the tradition of Tolkien, I intend to write stories about for a good many years to come – for my own satisfaction, and hopefully others’ enjoyment.
Bookslinger
December 31, 2020
E. C., you’ve sold another one.
(Just Fyi, I did not buy it on G’s recommendation, but solely on the intelligent and perspicacious manner in which you have commented at this blog.)
G.
January 2, 2021
Beth Buck, deal
Beth Buck
January 3, 2021
Sweet.
You can contact me at bbuck at immortalworks dot press and let me know where to send them.