Marissa K. Lingen
Author of The Calculus Plague
About the Author
Works by Marissa K. Lingen
The Calculus Plague 5 copies
Some of Them Closer 2 copies
Surfacing (short story) 2 copies
The Opposite of Pomegranates 2 copies
Monstrous Bonds 2 copies
Ask Citizen Etiquette 1 copy
The Salt Path 1 copy
How to Wrap a Roc's Egg 1 copy
Rest Stop 1 copy
Dark Thread 1 copy
Erasing the Map 1 copy
Loki's Net 1 copy
Making Alex Frey 1 copy
Singing Them Back 1 copy
The Beast's Apprentice 1 copy
Things We Sell to Tourists 1 copy
Anna's Implants 1 copy
Associated Works
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49 • June 2014 (Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue) (2014) — Contributor — 160 copies
Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: September/October 2018 (Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction) (2018) — Contributor — 42 copies
Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction for a Time of Pandemic (2020) — Contributor — 28 copies
Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories (Science and Fiction) (2016) — Contributor — 19 copies
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXXXIV, No. 9 (September 2014) (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 44, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2020] (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies
Daily Science Fiction: May 2020 — Contributor — 1 copy
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #86 — Author — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1978-07-26
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Eagan, Minnesota, USA
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Reviews
Ended up skimming this for work, so I'm going to count it as read. Lovely, with a lot of world packed into very few words.
Especially poignant as I think about the future these days:
“If I spend another year as a child,” I said. “A sleepwalking child. If I spend two, three. How will I learn then, not to be used? How will it ever get better?”
Uncle Flower reached out and stroked my head. “Oh, Zally. I don’t know if it will.”
. . .
I stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek. “It’ll be all right, Uncle Flower. I promise.”
“You can’t know that.”
“I can. I dream in centuries, and there’ll be more centuries. So it’ll be all right.”
Especially poignant as I think about the future these days:
“If I spend another year as a child,” I said. “A sleepwalking child. If I spend two, three. How will I learn then, not to be used? How will it ever get better?”
Uncle Flower reached out and stroked my head. “Oh, Zally. I don’t know if it will.”
. . .
I stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek. “It’ll be all right, Uncle Flower. I promise.”
“You can’t know that.”
“I can. I dream in centuries, and there’ll be more centuries. So it’ll be all right.”
A retelling of a Finnish folk/fairy tale about a brother who challenges the world’s greatest charmer and loses, and his sister who has to pay the price. I liked this one a lot. It had all the rhythms of a proper fairy tale, with some quite funny touches, and the relationship between the sisters and their brother was great, and the ending nicely landing in the grey area between happily ever after and tragedy.
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Statistics
- Works
- 38
- Also by
- 54
- Members
- 65
- Popularity
- #261,994
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 5
- ISBNs
- 14
Some light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek stories next to more introspective pieces that would barely classify as stories. All are wonderful.