The Mermaid Astronaut

Yoon Ha Lee BCS 298 2020

ShortStory 6,009 words Recommended by 8 award/anthology sources

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Until a visiting starship arrived, the other mermaids thought Essarala was silly for wanting to explore the galaxy.

Fairy Tale Retelling Friendship Slow Burn

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Science Fantasy Space Opera Slipstream Hopeful Deep Space Found Family Warm Elegiac Secondary World Lyrical Lyrical Prose Sacrifice Literary SF Contemplative Belonging Fantasy Grief And Loss Identity Bittersweet Character Driven Science Fiction

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death

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

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