Fifteen recent (the earliest appears to have been published in 2017) stories by Canadian writer Gemma Files combine to make a terrifically terrifying collection,
In That Endlessness, Our End. Files doesn’t exactly expose the horror found in the mundane because, once the thin veneer of normalcy is scratched, very little is mundane about her fictional realm. Dreams are always nightmares, residences provide discomfort, offspring are no delight, encounters with the eldritch are common, families are invariably dysfunctional, relationships tend toward the doomed, and even the electrical grid is a thing to fear.
The indelible lead-off story, “This Is How It Goes”, is about a particularly nasty apocalypse in which folks literally split into two; the original and the “dupe” then fight to the death. A women trying to wire lighting in her condo discovers electricity can be evil (and that we all doomed). A character in “The Puppet Motel”, one of the best stories in the book, s
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The Rithmatist (2013).
Novella
The Emperor’s Soul won a Hugo Award in 2013 and was a World Fantasy Award finalist. Novella
Perfect State (2015) was a Hugo Award nominee. His Legion novella series is collected in
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (2018). He co-wrote SF novella
The Original (2020) with Mary Robinette Kowal, published as an audiobook original.
Sanderson was chosen by Robert Jordan’s estate to complete the late author’s unfinished Wheel of Time epic fantasy series, resulting in three posthumous collaborations:
The Gathering Storm (2009),
Towers of Midnight (2010), and
A Memory of Light (2013). He’s also written tie-in fiction for the Infinity Blade game.
While reading for
Locus this year, I kept an unofficial list of notes about things I wanted to mention in my end-of-the-year essay. The biggest word on the list is “WITCHES,” which cropped up in more than one memorable title to cross my desk. From the field hockey team that takes a solemn oath within an Emilio Estevez notebook in Quan Barry’s
We Ride Upon Sticks to the mill workers who cast a life-saving spell for union solidarity in C.S. Malerich’s
Factory Witches of Lowell, witches factored largely in 2020 fantasy fiction. The wide variety of class, ethnicity, and circumstance that showed up in all of these titles was dazzling, and I enjoyed each and every one immensely.
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