Could Be Worse… We Guess: T Kingfisher s The Hollow Places, Part 8 tor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Livia Llewellyn’s “Bright Crown of Joy,” first published in Ellen Datlow’s
Children of Lovecraft anthology in 2016, and reprinted last year in Nick Mamatas’s
Wonder and Glory Forever anthology. Spoilers ahead, but this one is very much worth tracking down and reading yourself.
“After the After, there were waves of tsunamis that circled the surface of the world again and again, remaking it entirely new, there were epochs of monstrous and amazing creatures that thrived and died off in mass extinctions as the planet recalibrated again and again, as we who survived realized that we too had recalibrated, and were part of the chain of change.”
All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in June! tor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Nina Hamza
(Quill Tree Books, $16.99, June 22.)
When 12-year-old Ahmed and his family move from Hawaii to his fatherâs Minnesota hometown, he is immediately on guard, aware that he has to explain the color of his skin and an Indian American heritage he only knows secondhand. He isnât swayed by his dadâs warm memories of growing up in Farthing and the yearly box of Pearsonâs Nut Goodies, maple syrup and autumn leaves sent by a childhood friend. A welcome letter from his sixth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Gaarder, along with a reading list, also put Ahmed on guard. âFor starters, itâs wrong to call an assignment a favor. Youâre not fooling anyone when you do,â he snaps. As the new kid, Ahmedâs plan is to blend in. But heâs targeted on his first day of school by a neighborhood bully, Jack. Ahmed also meets Carl, an unapologetic class overachiever. And he finds himself in a group with Ari, who uses a wheelchair, and sharp-tongued Jess