Dislocation Space by Garth Nix
My rating: 4/5 cats
Go on. Try to stay alive.
Maybe something would change.
i’m almost glad there wasn’t a new free tor short this week—it forced me to scroll back into the PAST to find one i hadn’t read, discovering this excellent story about a badass contortionist-assassin employed and later imprisoned by stalin, and her last grand opportunity for escape.
alien tunnels had me feeling a little claustrophobic, but that’s a sign of great writing. i’ve only encountered garth nix in mixed-author anthologies and free tor shorts, but i’ve always liked what i’ve read, so it might be time to check out one of his full-lengthers. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London sounds good, and could be my autobiography if i move outta nyfc like everyone seems to be doing these days. but why would i leave alla this? the neighborhood where i work, filled with sex offenders and women getting stabbed at noon at the very same metrocard machine i use? my little queens neighborhood has been, so far, a quiet pocket in-between neighborhoods appearing in daily news stories about shootings and beatings and all manner of unsavory business in the accreted shitstorm of 2020, but if london’s looking for another left-handed bookseller, i could leave everything behind. make me an offer. fill it with cadbury’s.
i’ve gone off the review-rails.
read it for yourself here:
https://www.tor.com/2019/12/11/disloc…
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