★★★☆☆
(Steampunk) When the Demon of the North takes her father, young Claudette teams up with a university professor to hunt it down and kill it. (5,583 words; Time: 18m)
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"Claudette Dulac and the Devil of the North," by Genevieve Sinha [bio] (edited by Scott H. Andrews), appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies issue 294, published on December 26, 2019.
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Pro: This is an arctic (or sub-arctic Canadian) adventure story, with a steampunk twist. It’s also a YA story, in that teenage Claudette accomplishes everything with little material assistance from responsible adults.
I like the way the story gradually clues us in to the fact that the “Demon” is most likely a machine, not a creature.
Con: The ending is a little too easy; it didn’t really make much sense that the Demon never really killed anyone, and that everyone who’d hunted it was a prisoner living in the cabin.
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Pro: This is an arctic (or sub-arctic Canadian) adventure story, with a steampunk twist. It’s also a YA story, in that teenage Claudette accomplishes everything with little material assistance from responsible adults.
I like the way the story gradually clues us in to the fact that the “Demon” is most likely a machine, not a creature.
Con: The ending is a little too easy; it didn’t really make much sense that the Demon never really killed anyone, and that everyone who’d hunted it was a prisoner living in the cabin.
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Genevieve Sinha Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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This was fun with a nicely done voice.
ReplyDeleteNitpicky nitpick: the creature/machine is always called the Devil, not Demon.