★★☆☆☆
(SF Dystopia) Szanna visits bonespace from realspace and enters a park that contains the pestilent, including a man Szanna once loved. (7,284 words; Time: 24m)
Showing posts with label Sara Saab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sara Saab. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Friday, September 8, 2017
Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics, by Jess Barber and Sara Saab
★★★☆☆ Average
(Climate SF) This story follows Amir and Mani’s careers starting when they’re teenagers in water-starved Beirut. (12,087 words; Time: 40m)
Recommended By: 📙GDozois+2 👍NClarke.hm+1
Friday, March 3, 2017
Suddenwall, by Sara Saab
(High Fantasy) The city of Vannat offers forgiveness to former war criminals, but those it deems unworthy get trapped inside stone walls that appear out of nowhere. (4,337 words; Time: 14m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Sunday, April 3, 2016
The Cedar Grid, by Sara Saab
(SF) After an alien terrorist kills Majd's little brother back on Earth, he struggles to accept it, and starts making changes to his own life. (4,916 words; Time: 16m)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average
Recommended By: SFRevu:4 GDozois:4Saturday, November 7, 2015
Rush Down, Roar Gently, by Sara Saab
Interzone, July-August 2015; ~6,100 words
Rating: 3, Good, ordinary, story
An old woman hazards crossing a drowning future Beirut to make an apology to an old friend she had wronged thirty years before.
Rating: 3, Good, ordinary, story
An old woman hazards crossing a drowning future Beirut to make an apology to an old friend she had wronged thirty years before.
Mini-Review (click to view--possible spoilers)
Pro: The story makes the people of Beirut come alive, and even the flooded city feels very real.
Con: Except for the setting, the story isn't SF at all. Aya is rather foolish to believe that Zeina would still live in the same house 30 years later.
Con: Except for the setting, the story isn't SF at all. Aya is rather foolish to believe that Zeina would still live in the same house 30 years later.
Monday, November 2, 2015
In the Queue for the Worldship Munawwer, by Sara Saab
Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2015; 3,998 words
Rating: 3, Good, ordinary, story Recommended By: Locus SFRevu:4
In 2139 Beiruit, Suraya sends a sequence of e-mails that summarize her team's progress saving as many people in Lebanon as possible from a coming global catastrophe.
Rating: 3, Good, ordinary, story Recommended By: Locus SFRevu:4
In 2139 Beiruit, Suraya sends a sequence of e-mails that summarize her team's progress saving as many people in Lebanon as possible from a coming global catastrophe.
Mini-Review (click to view--possible spoilers)
Pro: The core story is how Suraya decides to accept her estranged father's gift of life and leave Earth with the ship. Clearly he pulled strings to put his daughter in charge, and she seems to have worked very hard to earn it. She wants him to see the enormity of what it really means to only save two out of five people.
Con: It's a little hard to sympathize with Suraya's situation. She has medical treatment available and a berth on the starship. It seems irrational for her to opt to die.
The coming catastrophe is a little silly. Asteroids from beyond the solar system that just happen to hit the Earth?
Con: It's a little hard to sympathize with Suraya's situation. She has medical treatment available and a berth on the starship. It seems irrational for her to opt to die.
The coming catastrophe is a little silly. Asteroids from beyond the solar system that just happen to hit the Earth?
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