Review: Visions of Ascension aka Fate of Spectrums by Nicholas L Carter

 

 

 

 

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 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5089378385

 

This is Book One in a very comprehensive universe created to hold a supremely powerful ruling being. They are named Corianna and are ultimately tamed by love. I was strongly reminded of the epic of Gilgamesh.

The grammar was terribly lacking, as if English was not the author's first language. The title is not clear-- 'Spectrum' appears nowhere in the story. Weighing against the technical problems are some awesome concepts of how a super-being can work either for or against its own species as a whole. The attempts at depicting gender-fluid family life are commendable if not convincing, and the depiction of different alien species is slap-dash and left to us readers to complete.

Review: Distant Gardens anthology FF sff

 

 

five great sff authors, ten happy endings

These authors love lesbian sci-fi fantasy as much as I do and display that love to spectacular effect here. The heat levels vary and are specified up front. There are tentacles, fungi, carnivorous plants, inter-species pairings, dimensional rifts, life-or-death struggles, pirates and politicos, intergalactic espionage, nerds and naifs, immortals and pixies, evil corporations and bureaucracies to circumvent, all paving the way for non-binary and sapphic heart bonds. We need more of those unconventional balances in our own reality, so what better way to seed them in our imaginations than this?

Each of the five gifts us with a tale from their established sff universes, as well as one that takes place elsewhere, providing a wonderful introduction to their worlds, and their literary chops. The volume delivers exactly what I wish for in boundary breaking romances. May they all live long and prosper, writing happily ever after.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

 

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