It’s hard for me to rate overt retellings of classics really high, but the tradition is a venerable one and L'Esprit De L'Escalier is very good. Since it references Virgil’s telling you might want to read that or a summary first. The setting is very clever, making the minor tweak that Orpheus never looks back at Eurydice and actually gets her out of Hades, sort of. She’s not in good shape. The modernizing of the Pantheon (the Greek gods) is fun too. What a year for Valente.
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