I Read Stories: Boojum
Boojum is a Lovecraftian short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette. It is about Black Alice Bradley*, a junior engineer on the living pirate spaceship Lavinia Whateley**. Things go... okay, until they capture a cargo that she won’t countenance selling which leads her inevitably towards betrayal and mutiny.
It is full of strangeness, some of which is adapted and extrapolated from Lovecraft’s works, and has a surprisingly upbeat ending, assuming that mass death and failure and unimaginable destinies count as upbeat.
Read This: For cool Science Fiction.
Don’t Read This: If dark Lovecraftian stuff is not for you.
Read It Online: At Lightspeed magazine.
* Probably?
** Ha ha yes.
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| From The Hunting of the Snark, another influence on the story |
It is full of strangeness, some of which is adapted and extrapolated from Lovecraft’s works, and has a surprisingly upbeat ending, assuming that mass death and failure and unimaginable destinies count as upbeat.
Read This: For cool Science Fiction.
Don’t Read This: If dark Lovecraftian stuff is not for you.
Read It Online: At Lightspeed magazine.
* Probably?
** Ha ha yes.
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