Saturday, December 14, 2019

Eclipse our Sins, by Tlotlo Tsamaase

[Clarkesworld]
★☆☆☆☆

(Climate Dystopia) Two children observe their mother’s horrible death as the spirit of the Earth, ravaged by climate change, forces her to give birth to death. (7,953 words; Time: 26m)


"," by (edited by Neil Clarke), appeared in issue 159, published on .

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Review: 2019.681 (A Word for Authors)

Pro: Obviously the story is a metaphor for how people are destroying the planet. Tsholofelo means “Hope” in Tswana, Botshelo (the sister) means “Life,” and Itumeleng (the brother) means “Joy.”

Con: This was really unpleasant to read. The whole concept is bad enough, but metaphors like the sun menstruating across the sky made it worse. The idea of a respirator that can filter out racism is even more ridiculous that a respirator that goes into your esophagus. And a light-year is a unit of distance, not a unit of time.

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