Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea
音楽、記憶、テクノロジー、愛と喪失を横断する十三編を収めたスペキュレイティブ短編集。宇宙船、海、別の自分、時間のずれなど、多彩な設定が人間の感情を照らす。
作品情報
旅と記憶と音楽が、奇妙で人間的な未来を開く。
Small Beer Press刊の短編集。出版社ページで紙版と電子版のISBN、ページ数、受賞歴が確認できる。
レビュー要約
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多様な設定を使いながら、喪失やつながりを人間的な温度で描く点が評価されている。暗い題材にもユーモアと希望が残る。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Small Beer Pr
- 発売日
- 2019-03-19
- ページ数
- 286ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781618731555
- ISBN-10
- 1618731556
- 価格
- 4228 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Science Fiction/Anthologies
"This beautiful, complex debut collection assembles some of Nebula winner Pinsker’s best stories into a twisting journey that is by turns wild, melancholic, and unsettling." ? Publishers Weekly (starred review) Pinsker has shot like a star across the firmament with Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. In this collection, Pinsker weaves music, memory, technology, history, mystery, love, loss, and even multiple selves on generation ships and cruise ships, on highways and high seas, in murder houses and treehouses. They feature runaways, fiddle-playing astronauts, and retired time travelers; they are weird, wired, hopeful, haunting, and deeply human. They are often described as beautiful but Pinsker also knows that the heart wants what the heart wants and that is not always right, or easy. The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story!) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present.
Sarah Pinsker's stories have won the Nebula and Sturgeon awards, and have been finalists for the Hugo, the Locus, and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. Her first novel, Song For A New Day, will be published in autumn 2019. She is also a singer/songwriter with three albums on various independent labels and a fourth she swears will be released someday soon. She was born in New York and has lived all over the US and Canada, but currently lives with her wife in Baltimore in a hundred-year-old house surrounded by sentient vines. Her website is sarahpinsker.com.
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Im realizing I really like short stories
I really loved the stories in this book. especially the 2 longest ones: the one in the spaceship & the last story. The sci fi elements really intrigued me & made me think a lot about each story and the lind of world it was set in. a world where cars can run on frying oil, a world where life on earth is nothing but ancient history, a world where alternate dimensions exist, and so on. Some were better than others, and some were kind of confusing, but overall I liked how each story abruptly transported you to a different reality. the surrealism and mostly open-ended endings really kept me thinking about each story. I definitely enjoyed reading this.
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Music and Imagination
This book is a collection of creative and unique short stories that are both thought-provoking and emotional. Each story brings something fresh and different, making the collection feel like a journey through various worlds. As an award-winning author and musician, Pinsker weaves music into her stories, adding a special charm that makes them stand out. The only downside is the small font size in this edition, which made reading a bit tiring at times. Still, the creativity and depth of the stories more than make up for this minor flaw.
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A grab bag of stories.
Some more readable than others. A skilfully woven mesh of science fiction and the human condition, whether that’s love, music, hope, family, or rescuing someone. Something for everyone, but it’ll not be everyone’s something.
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Addictive Short Story Collection
Incredible, addicting debut short story collection by Sarah Pinsker. Favorites include And We Were Left Darkling, Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea, Our Lady of the Open Road & And Then There Were (N-One). Not a clunker in the bunch. Funny (the title story has a line about a crab that I repeat to myself a few times a day), humanistic, and touching without being sentimental. (N-One) has a premise regarding the multiverse that I'm surprised no one else came up with already. Warning - very easy to stay up way too late with the compulsion to just read one more story.
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Imaginative and inventive
Some are stretched out too long but most are true speculative puzzlez..a worthy read. Title tale is the most absorbing.