SFF Settings I’d Vacation In: The Vanished Birds
In The Vanished Birds, Simon Jiminez offers the tour of a lifetime, though whether that lifetime lasts fifty years or a thousand depends on which traveler you ask.
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SFF Settings I’d Vacation In: Gideon the Ninth
Break out your cashmere robes and your thickest skeleton-knitted gloves and socks, and don’t forget to accessorize for your chapel tour with a string of locally sourced prayer bones.
Why We Like It: “Gil Butsen Ford” by Steve Amick
Editorial Assistant Afsheen Farhadi: In issue 15.2‘s “Gil Butsen Ford,” Steve Amick dramatizes the logic of advertising—the promise to deliver happiness as balm for the consumer’s deepest pain. This is found in the language of advertisements, which often use words like love, kindness, family, words out of place, too weighty and meaningful for the exchange …