THE DEEP ONES: "Starfish" by Karen Tidbeck
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"Starfish" by Karen Tidbeck
Discussion begins Jun 22, 2022.
First published in the February 2016 issue of Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2013613
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
No print versions found to date.
ONLINE VERSIONS
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/starfish/
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://www.karintidbeck.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Tidbeck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1dcwXTn2s
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2018/02/09/jagannath-karin-tidbeck-review/
https://tinyurl.com/4x6sj3dx
Discussion begins Jun 22, 2022.
First published in the February 2016 issue of Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2013613
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
No print versions found to date.
ONLINE VERSIONS
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/starfish/
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://www.karintidbeck.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Tidbeck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1dcwXTn2s
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2018/02/09/jagannath-karin-tidbeck-review/
https://tinyurl.com/4x6sj3dx
2AndreasJ
I'm not sure if its the first time, but it's exceedingly rare we read something that has apparently never seen print.
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>2 AndreasJ:
We've come close, usually when an online story debut was subsequently published in a single physical volume, but this is the first ebook-only tale I can remember.
We've come close, usually when an online story debut was subsequently published in a single physical volume, but this is the first ebook-only tale I can remember.
4paradoxosalpha
Certainly weird, but with a note of the "sweetly romantic" we don't see much around here! This one took me by surprise.
5AndreasJ
We've had some brushes with "sweetly romantic" in some of Robert Chambers stories, but yes, unusual for us. I don't usually much like "sweetly romantic", but I liked this story.
When I first read this story, I assumed that "here" is our world and "the other side" another one, but on re-reading I find myself thinking it's the other way around. Partly due to the starfish, partly due to the apparently-Arctic setting which doesn't obviously map to any real place I can think of.
We don't learn what Kim's illness was, but it evidently left her depressed. Depressed young women are a bit of a theme with Tidbeck - we may recall "Rebecka" which we did last year.
When I first read this story, I assumed that "here" is our world and "the other side" another one, but on re-reading I find myself thinking it's the other way around. Partly due to the starfish, partly due to the apparently-Arctic setting which doesn't obviously map to any real place I can think of.
We don't learn what Kim's illness was, but it evidently left her depressed. Depressed young women are a bit of a theme with Tidbeck - we may recall "Rebecka" which we did last year.
