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Unwelcome Bodies
by Jennifer Pelland

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Author: Jennifer Pelland
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2008-02-29
ISBN: 0978867688
Number of pages: 252
Publisher: Apex Publications

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Book Review: Not Free SF Reader
Summary: 4 Stars

As you can see by this paragraph, she has written a little about each story:
"So as you've probably noticed, I have conversations with myself. That's because I'm a writer, and we're all nuts. In fact, writers are just sociopaths with a great coping mechanism. Instead of doing horrible things to flesh and blood creatures, we do horrible things to creatures made of pixels and ink and imagination. It's fabulous. We get to contemplate all sorts of terrible acts, and when we write them down, people pay us money and tell us we're geniuses! Huzzah!"

The collection does tend towards the darker side, so more than a few sociopaths to be seen in these pages, as well as a lot of environmental disaster type backdrops. Unwelcome Bodies is not a happy title, either, obviously.

What seems strange to me in a first collection, unless it is for some number of pages reason - is that the stories MarsSickGirl and Mercytanks are missing. Those two are certainly considerably superior to some of the other work here. Hence, no standouts, but two good ones in 'Captive Girl' and 'The Last Stand Of the Elephant Man'. If you put the above two and chop out two of the ordinary, you'd have make the 3.50 standard. As it is, this is 3.33.

Also, you can buy this as a no DRM multiformat ebook. Well done to Apex for t hat.

A very solid bit over 3.5 rating for this book, though.


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