#Sarah Pinsker

[falliblefabrial]

How niche can I get: Sci-fi that is also about traditional music

"Wind Will Rove" by Sarah Pinsker "Where Oaken Hearts do Gather" Also by Sarah Pinsker, lol "The New Policeman" by Kate Thompson Please give me more - I will update it!

#sarah pinsker #rec list

[whilereadingandwalking]

Attending the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, ChiCon8, was such an (exhausting) joy. I walked away with a stack of books—including old favorites, books that spoke to my heart, and books I fell in love with after reviewing them for Booklist—signed by their authors. I made many new friends over cocktails and ribbons, and was able to have coffee in real life with people I knew from the back-and-forth of online acquaintance-ship. Thanks to one of those people, I briefly and carefully held a Hugo Award in my own hands. 

I went to the awards ceremony itself in royal blue and applauded, cheered, and cried. I dreamt of winning one myself, someday, on that glorious stage, applauded by my peers. I was on three panels, talking bookstagram, mental illness, and believability, defending the youth and introducing some people to Susan Sontag. I was proud of my restraint as I walked the dealers' room and didn't end up buying a dozen new books or the gorgeous, rare omnibus of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis. 

I hope another WorldCon is not too, too far away in the future, but either way, I am thrilled to have attended this one.

#book stack #hugo awards #sarah pinsker #seanan mcguire #mira grant #mary robinette kowal #catherynne valente #chicon8

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

WHERE OAKEN HEARTS DO GATHER by Sarah Pinsker (2021) (link) - tw: death

→“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” (Roud 423, Child 313) is a traditional English folk ballad. Like many traditional songs, the lyrics are unattributed. Child transcribed twenty verses, and a twenty-first got added later (and is included here for some unknown reason—I keep writing to the Lyricsplainer mods to get someone to delete it or include it as a separate entry, but nobody responds, and all they’ve done is put brackets around it. Sometimes I hate this site.)

HARLEQUIN VALENTINE by Neil Gaiman (1999) (link)

She removes the pin from the heart, and puts the heart into the plastic sandwich bag.

#short story tournament #where oaken hearts do gather #sarah pinsker #harlequin valentine #neil gaiman #polls #round 1

[smallbeerpress]

What a laugh on this snowy morning! Celebrating Sarah Pinsker's LOST PLACES — possibly the only short story collection? — appearing on the Locus bestseller list. Woo!

#Sarah Pinsker #short stories #short stories ftw #bestseller #WHAT

[soufre-de-paris]

read Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather again and again losing my shit

#i have so many Thoughts and Feelings and all of them are spoilers #please read #where oaken hearts do gather #sarah pinsker

[katherine-traylor]

It occurred to me that those who enjoy Goncharov might also enjoy looking at Sarah Pinsker's research on the ballad "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather." A lot of the same themes are raised, though obviously the medium and setting are completely different.

#goncharov #ballads #where oaken hearts do gather #sarah pinsker

[megsbooklr]

If anyone's looking for a dark fairytale-esque short story (which has just won the Nebula award btw), please go read this one ^^ I love that there's a rather simple idea behind this story, but the unusual form of storytelling makes it into something quite unique!

#short story #short story recommendation #where oaken hearts do gather #sarah pinsker

[sapphicbookoftheday]

A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker

Today's sapphic book of the day is A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker!

Summary: "In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world—her music, her purpose—is closed off forever. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law.

Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery—no physical contact with humans needed. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. The only catch is that she'll have to do something she's never done before and go out in public. Find the illegal concerts and bring musicians into the limelight they deserve. But when she sees how the world could actually be, that won’t be enough."

#lesbian #sapphic #wlw #books #lgbtq #book recommendations #queer #queer lit #lgbt books #book recs #booklr #lgbtqia #lgbt #science fiction #scifi #sci fi #speculative fiction #a song for a new day #sarah pinsker

[dragnew]

The Oaken Heart: To celebrate Sarah Pinsker’s incredible short story, Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather, I present this bittersweet concoction of whisky, amaro, and a beautiful red mead.

#Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather #Sarah Pinsker #Hugo Awards #TW Alcohol #Mead #Elixir Libris #cocktail

[ayanos-pl]

最近買った本。 

サラ・ピンスカー、市田泉訳『いずれすべては海の中に』（竹書房文庫） 

フィリップ・K・ディック賞に輝いた奇想短篇集 

イラスト：カチナツミ、デザイン：坂野公一（welle design）

#books #sf #sci-fi #Japanese books #book design #Sarah Pinsker #sooner or later everything falls into the sea #サラ・ピンスカー #いずれすべては海の中に #市田泉 #坂野公一 #カチナツミ #竹書房文庫 #書影 #装幀 #装丁 #welle design

[midnightlibrarymouse]

71, 132 and 133 please?

71. your favourite LGBTQ+ fiction

Admittedly, despite being in the LGBTQ+ community, I haven't read that much LGBTQ+ fiction! I know, I'm ashamed with myself too... That being said, one that comes to mind is:

We Are Satellites

by Sarah Pinsker

The LGBTQ+ aspect is quite subtle in the grand scheme of things, but the book's point of view is from four different family members, two mums and their kids.

There's also disability representation in this book too, which is really important to me!

(p.s. if y'all have any suggestions for great LGBTQ+ books, please let me know!)

132. who is your favourite person to go to for book recs?

Honestly, usually my dad! We share a love for books, and reading, and we have very similar tastes in books, so we usually just trade books back and forth.

Other than my dad, I get a lot of recs from the book club I'm in, and social media!

133. a book that you came across randomly and fell in love with

The Fireman

by Joe Hill

I came across this book at a free library thing on the literal other side of the city to me. I was at a train station, and there was an hour until my train, and I saw this book, thought it sounded interesting, and started reading it!

It's about a strange plague that encompasses the USA, but it's a disease that causes people to get strange markings across their skin, before they burst into flames. (I also read this in like 2018 or 2017, so very pre-actual-pandemic)

Thanks so much for asking!

#ninja-muse #we are satellites #sarah pinsker #the fireman #joe hill #book asks #book ask #book review #bookreview #review #bookreviewer

[everyprettybook]

#sarah pinsker #sooner or later everything falls into the sea #short stories #books #reading #scifi #everyprettybook

[rhetoricandlogic]

Book Review: Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker

Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker

Tor.com, 2020

ASIN:B089FTG8MS

Available: Kindle edition  ( Amazon.com )

When her high school friend Marco’s “weird older brother” Denny dies, Stella offers to help clear out his things. Unbeknownst to her, Denny was a hoarder, and sorting through his things, even in just a few rooms, is a huge challenge, requiring latex gloves to go through his things and a mask to keep out the stench. Starting in the dining room, it is Stella’s job to sort the junk and broken things from the items that might be personal or potentially valuable.

Stella is a pathological liar. She doesn’t know why she does it, but she’s good at it. She lies about her job, her family, where she lives, what she’s done with her life… and she doesn’t get caught. While sorting through items in the basement rec room, such as DVDs, VHS tapes, and cassettes, she finds an old television set built into a cabinet and makes up a creepy kids’ television show from their childhood to ask Marco about, The Uncle Bob Show, only to discover that she didn’t make it up; it’s real, and most of the little kids in town appeared on it at some time, including her and Denny. Marco remembers it, Stella’s mother remembers it, and when she checks, there are records in the archives of the local television station. Stella is unnerved: if she can’t remember the show despite the nightmarish stories Uncle Bob told on his show, what other memories could she be missing?

This is a very short piece on the dangers and nature of storytelling and memory, but so well done. Pinsker doesn’t waste a word in this unsettling tale. While most of the characters are sketches, Denny and his house are vividly recreated, and the realization of how unreliable Stella’s narrative actually is makes the story even creepier. How much of what and who in the  is real and how much is in her head? Readers will have this crawling around their brains well after the last page is turned.

As a final note, it would certainly be interesting to see Pinsker revisit some of the other grown children who appeared on the Uncle Bob Show, in connected novellas. Recommended.

#Sarah Pinsker #Two Truth and a Lie #mahreviews #long post

[aliteratepenguin]

This was the problem with trying to re-create a memory: the overwrite took the memory down with it.

-A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker

#books #reading #quotes #a song for a new day #sarah pinsker #v's book log

[macmanx]

A young magician is given the opportunity to learn real magic, but it comes with consequences.

#the court magician #sarah pinsker #magic #consequences #levar burton #levar burton reads #podcast

[prosy-days]

June 19, 2023 - Day 365

I wasn't expecting the time jump in We Are Satellites!

#365 #19.6.2023 #Day 365 #365! #books #We Are Satellites #Sarah Pinsker