I liked so much of T. Kingfisher's What Stalks the Deep (2025), I just wish it had leaned as sfnally into its premise as it had the scope for.
( Or a fear that forces us to displace our identities? )
In conclusion, I enjoyed the novella, I argued with it, I finished it and wrote a long string of e-mails to
rushthatspeaks from which this post has been largely rearranged and went to bed and read Le Guin's "Nine Lives" (1969) and "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" (1971). I can always re-read Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human (1953), too. And Elizabeth Bear's "Shoggoths in Bloom" (2008).
( Or a fear that forces us to displace our identities? )
In conclusion, I enjoyed the novella, I argued with it, I finished it and wrote a long string of e-mails to