In most versions of “Little Red Riding Hood,” after all, the wolf is eventually split open. Manickavel’s work joins a range of contemporary fantasy writers not in subverting the original, but in lingering upon this late aspect of the tale.
All original fiction published by Strange Horizons in 2018: 47 stories including five novelettes and over two hundred thousand words of undiluted awesomeness.
In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Supriya Nair reading Kuzhali Manickavel's “Things That Happened While We Waited For Our Magical Grandmother to Die—No. 39.”
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The Djinn Falls in Love is not merely a collection of djinn stories, but a collection which explores the difficulty of empathic understanding between two sorts of beings alien to one another.
Readers of the Apex Book of World SF series need not worry about the choices made by the new hand at the wheel. Mahvesh Murad knows the art of compiling a truly unforgettable collection.