Just like I'm walking on broken glass
Aug. 31st, 2010 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoIn my methodical way of churning through the "Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" collections, today I finished the first of 1998's selections, Travels with the Snow Queen by Kelly Link. (Who, apparently, took over editing the fantasy part of the anthology a few years later.)
It was one of those modernist fairy tale retellings with a strong element of 'why do women let themselves be treated the way they do in fairy tales?' And I enjoyed the story, so I went to goodreads to see if I could find other anthologies of her work (this is one of the reasons I read he anthologies--they're excellent lead generators), and I discovered that her home-based press, Small Beer, has made ePrintings of two of her anthologies available for free.
I'm going to check them out, and if I enjoy them as much as I enjoyed the first story then I will throw money into their pot. If you have an interest, I encourage you to do the same.
It was one of those modernist fairy tale retellings with a strong element of 'why do women let themselves be treated the way they do in fairy tales?' And I enjoyed the story, so I went to goodreads to see if I could find other anthologies of her work (this is one of the reasons I read he anthologies--they're excellent lead generators), and I discovered that her home-based press, Small Beer, has made ePrintings of two of her anthologies available for free.
I'm going to check them out, and if I enjoy them as much as I enjoyed the first story then I will throw money into their pot. If you have an interest, I encourage you to do the same.