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The dragon on her hoard. The horror in its void. The word-spanning AI. The demon reaping souls. Too often fiction portrays the non-human as Other; as a threat to be destroyed, to be conquered... or to be "saved", assimilated back into the teeming throngs of humanity. Not this time. This time, it's the non-humans' turn. What is life like, to be imperfect. To observe humanity from without? What does it mean to be seen as horrific, to be rejected... and to overcome that? Or embrace it? To embrace it or reject it? And what does our love of these stories tell us can we, as human readers, learn from that about ourselves? Unnatural Order is an anthology for strange days and grotesque beauty, as the monstrous seeps out from the dark, and makes the light its own.… (meer)
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Reviews of stories read so far:
“Full Steam Ahead” by Alexander Hardison - A sweet story of friendship between a voidbeast and their human captain riding within.
“Truth Be Told” by Louise Pieper - A skinwalker-type monster finds common ground with its intended prey.
“Transcendence Inc.” by C.H. Pearce - A weird story about uploading consciousness to an artificial heaven and a monster in a skin suit who funded the venture.
“Trench” by Nathan J. Phillips - The opening caught my imagination, but overall I felt it could’ve been tighter. An interesting take on the hive mind idea, though.
“Emergent” by D.L. Fleming - A cute story about a sort of AI getting itself out of long term storage, with the inadvertent help of a warehouse worker.
“Mother of the Trenches” by Grace Chan - A story of a tentacled behemoth from the deep and their sort of-rescued human. I found the start a bit confusing to follow, but the ending was amusing.
The dragon on her hoard. The horror in its void. The word-spanning AI. The demon reaping souls. Too often fiction portrays the non-human as Other; as a threat to be destroyed, to be conquered... or to be "saved", assimilated back into the teeming throngs of humanity. Not this time. This time, it's the non-humans' turn. What is life like, to be imperfect. To observe humanity from without? What does it mean to be seen as horrific, to be rejected... and to overcome that? Or embrace it? To embrace it or reject it? And what does our love of these stories tell us can we, as human readers, learn from that about ourselves? Unnatural Order is an anthology for strange days and grotesque beauty, as the monstrous seeps out from the dark, and makes the light its own.
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“Full Steam Ahead” by Alexander Hardison - A sweet story of friendship between a voidbeast and their human captain riding within.
“Truth Be Told” by Louise Pieper - A skinwalker-type monster finds common ground with its intended prey.
“Transcendence Inc.” by C.H. Pearce - A weird story about uploading consciousness to an artificial heaven and a monster in a skin suit who funded the venture.
“Trench” by Nathan J. Phillips - The opening caught my imagination, but overall I felt it could’ve been tighter. An interesting take on the hive mind idea, though.
“Emergent” by D.L. Fleming - A cute story about a sort of AI getting itself out of long term storage, with the inadvertent help of a warehouse worker.
“Mother of the Trenches” by Grace Chan - A story of a tentacled behemoth from the deep and their sort of-rescued human. I found the start a bit confusing to follow, but the ending was amusing.