Thursday, April 9, 2020

Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island, by Nibedita Sen

In Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island, a Nebula nominee for short story in 2019, we get a word picture of the titular place told in the titular format.  This short, disconnected entry format is one we see more often now and I think it works well for a short story, where one is trying to convey an idea in a very few words.  This one is OK, I guess, they always go by so fast for me it's hard to know what to make of them.  But worth the brief stop.

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