A Door Within the Fire
All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions
By Susan Palwick
8 Apr, 2020
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Susan Palwick’s Philip K. Dick Award nominated 2019 All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions is a collection of speculative fiction stories.
Reviews by Contributor: Palwick, Susan (3)
Meredith Means Well
Shelter
By Susan Palwick
23 Jul, 2015
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Susan Palwick’s 2007 novel Shelter takes us to a future America where:
- “excessive” altruism has been pathologized;
- machine intelligences have joined humanity;
- criminals and the mental ill (then as now overlapping sets) can be mindwiped;
- immortality of a sort is available to those with the money to pay for it;
and where, as always, the people who pay for rich people’s mistakes are never the rich people themselves.
Learn from my mistake
The Necessary Beggar
By Susan Palwick
4 Jul, 2015
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While she had been actively publishing at shorter lengths, Susan Palwick’s 2005 book The Necessary Beggar ended a thirteen year novel publication drought, a return to longer form her fans certainly appreciated. Inexplicably, despite counting myself among those fans, this is the first time I have ever read this novel [1]. Having finally read it, I regret having delayed gratification so long.
No one in Lémabantunk knows why Darroti murdered Mendicant Gallicina; Darroti won’t explain and of course Gallicina cannot. Darroti’s punishment is the harshest the city can exact: exile through a one-way gateway to another universe, to an alien nation calling itself America.