{"id":8621,"date":"2017-01-17T20:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T01:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2023-02-16T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:30:26","slug":"street-magicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/8621","title":{"rendered":"Street Magicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2juw690\">Street Magicks<\/a><\/em> (2016) edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/guran_paula.php\">Paula Guran<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2juw690\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Street-Magicks.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8622\" \/><\/a>I believe it took me less than a year to finish this anthology. Hopefully this is a new trend for me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cFreewheeling\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/delint.php\">Charles de Lint<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Year and a Day in Old Theradane\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/lynchs.php\">Scott Lynch<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cCaligo Lane\u201d by Ellen Klages<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSocks\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/shermand.php\">Delia Sherman<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cPainted Birds and Shivered Bones\u201d by Kat Howard<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Goldfish Pond and Other Stories\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/gaiman.php\">Neil Gaiman<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/beare.php\">Elizabeth Bear<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cStreet Worm\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Shawl_Nisi.php\">Nisi Shawl<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Water Matter\u201d by Jay Lake<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLast Call\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/butcherj.php\">Jim Butcher<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cBridle\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/kiernan_caitlin.php\">Caitl\u00edn R. Kiernan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Last Triangle\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/ford_jeffery.php\">Jeffrey Ford<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWorking for the God of the Love of Money\u201d by Kaaron Warren<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHello, Moto\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Okorafor_Nnedi.php\">Nnedi Okorafor<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Spirit of the Thing: A Nightside Story\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/greens.php\">Simon R. Green<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Night in Electric Squidland\u201d by Sarah Monette<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSpeechless in Seattle\u201d by Lisa Silverthorne<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPalimpsest\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/valente_catherynne.php\">Catherynne M. Valente<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cAsh\u201d by John Shirley<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn Our Block\u201d by R. A. Lafferty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cFreewheeling\u201d by Charles de Lint this is a story I&#8217;d read several times previously, in other anthologies. It is a good story, but sad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Year and a Day in Old Theradane\u201d by Scott Lynch is a story I got hung up on. I like Scott Lynch, but had a difficult time getting into this story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cShouldn\u2019t I have a hangover?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took it while you slept,\u201d said Ivovandas. \u201cI have a collection of bottled maladies. Your hangover was due to be the stuff of legends. Here be dragons! And by \u2018here,\u2019 I mean directly behind your eyeballs, probably for the rest of the week. I\u2019ll find another head to slip it into, someday. Possibly I\u2019ll let you have it back if you fail me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCaligo Lane\u201d by Ellen Klages is a story I ended up re-reading when I picked the anthology back up. It is beautiful and marvelous and very sad.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When geography or politics makes travel or escape impossible, she is the last resort. Each life saved is a mitzvah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Once, when she was young and in a temper, she crumpled one into a ball and threw it across the room, muttering curses. A man in Norway found himself in an unnamed desert, confused and over-dressed. His journey did not end well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSocks\u201d by Delia Sherman is the story of a girl with an affliction who finds her voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPainted Birds and Shivered Bones\u201d by Kat Howard is about a werebird. Or a cursed man. Or a woman recovering herself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some days were good days, days when Maeve could walk through her life and not be aware of any of the adjustments she performed to make it livable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Goldfish Pond and Other Stories\u201d by Neil Gaiman is&#8230; well&#8230; it&#8217;s a Neil Gaiman story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King\u201d by Elizabeth Bear this one I read twice and still was unsure about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStreet Worm\u201d by Nisi Shawl is a story of a girl&#8211;a teen whose parents think she&#8217;s seeing things that aren&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Water Matter\u201d by Jay Lake I mostly skimmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast Call\u201d by Jim Butcher is another Dresden files short story. It was fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridle\u201d by Caitl\u00edn R. Kiernan I didn&#8217;t bother to read, since I don&#8217;t like her writing (she writes horror, which I dislike; It&#8217;s nothing personal).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Last Triangle\u201d by Jeffrey Ford is a story I started and then got distracted. It&#8217;s actually an interesting story about magic and science&#8211;or rather geometry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Last Triangle is an equilateral triangle; all the sides are equal,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>I failed math every year in high school, so I just nodded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWorking for the God of the Love of Money\u201d by Kaaron Warren I mostly skimmed; it was darker and sadder than I wanted to read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, Moto\u201d by Nnedi Okorafor is about science and witchcraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Spirit of the Thing: A Nightside Story\u201d by Simon R. Green is a John Taylor story I&#8217;d read previously, but still enjoyed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They didn\u2019t know anything. They hadn\u2019t seen anything, because they didn\u2019t come to a bar like this to take an interest in other people\u2019s problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA Night in Electric Squidland\u201d by Sarah Monette I surprised myself by enjoying. Possibly because it was a police procedural of sorts, I found myself wanting to read more about the characters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mick, observing the pretty young man with the eye of an expert, saw that he was not as young as he was trying to appear, and he would be prettier if he admitted it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSpeechless in Seattle\u201d by Lisa Silverthorne started and didn&#8217;t finish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalimpsest\u201d by Catherynne M. Valente started and then realized that I generally dislike her short stories, so skipped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsh\u201d by John Shirley was not for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Our Block\u201d by R. A. Lafferty was an odd and amusing story. <\/p>\n<p>An interesting collection, although there were a lot of stories that were not for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Prime Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Magicks (2016) edited by Paula Guran I believe it took me less than a year to finish this anthology. Hopefully this is a new trend for me. \u201cFreewheeling\u201d by Charles de Lint \u201cA Year and a Day in Old Theradane\u201d by Scott Lynch \u201cCaligo Lane\u201d by Ellen Klages \u201cSocks\u201d by Delia Sherman \u201cPainted Birds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,30,2,8,291,43,16,34],"tags":[71,320,246,76,79,300,78,217],"class_list":["post-8621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","category-british","category-fantasy","category-mystery","category-paper","category-private-eye","category-supernatural","category-urban-fantasy","tag-charles-de-lint","tag-elizabeth-bear","tag-jim-butcher","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-nightside","tag-scott-lynch","tag-simon-r-green","tag-witches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2f3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/41","url_meta":{"origin":8621,"position":0},"title":"The Faery Reel","author":"Michelle","date":"November 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"The Faery Reel edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling Any time I see a fantasy anthology edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, I'll often as not pick it up, because I know that it's going to be good. 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