"Little Books with Big Hearts" of particular interest included Peter M. Ball’s Horn… Ball’s novella-in-book-form from my new favorite indie press, Twelfth Planet, combines noir and faery in a hardboiled structure that plays knowingly with the tropes of both subgenres; he is without a doubt one of the best of the up-and-coming writers in the field.
Among collections by relatively new writers, I found Deborah Biancotti’s A Book of Endings, Eugie Foster’s Returning My Sister’s Face, and Cat Rambo’s Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight the most compelling. None of these collections were perfect, but each was lively and willing to take chances.
Four other original anthologies provided an entertaining read…New Ceres Nights, another Australian creation, edited by Alisa Krasnostein & Tehani Wessly [sic.], comes to readers from the excellent Twelfth Planet Press, and might be the sleeper anthology of the year. It’s consistently lively and interesting in developing its shared setting. Contributors include Stephen Dedman, Kaaron Warren, Aliette de Bodard, Angela Slatter, and Dirk Flinthart.
He mentions a few other books too 🙂 Well worth reading!
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