A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon by Ken Scholes

15 Nov 2009

The first rule of Short Story Club is that you have to talk about Short Story club. Unfortunately for this weeks Torque Control Short Story Club story, A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon by Ken Scholes, I can find much to say apart from (once again) it’s just not my type of story.

I read a few pages, gave up, read the last page.

Sometimes I like making sweeping statements, as a challenge (to myself and others). I often say that I don’t like Fantasy. This story was another data point in the model describing my SFF tastes, and another step towards its proof.

Of course the model (and my taste) gets blurry at the boundaries, but in general I don’t like stories set firmly in the historical analogy / traditional Fantasy quadrant of the multi-dimensional genre space.

Posted by James on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 9:41 AM

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