The Heart's Filthy Lesson

Elizabeth Bear Old Venus 2015 2015

Novelette 10,400 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources

Fun adventure on Old Venus. Dharthi risks her life in an unexplored part of Ishtar Terra looking for evidence of a vanished civilization that would save her career.

Biopunk Colonialism Slow Burn

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Queer Identity Introspective Far Future Lyrical Survival Social SF Literary SF Contemplative Belonging Close Third Person Identity Bittersweet Character Driven Science Fiction

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violence

Quasar links out; the story lives on Old Venus, where the author gets the click.

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