The Translator, at Low Tide
Vajra Chandrasekera
Clarkesworld
164
2020
ShortStory
3,981 words
Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
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In a sad, future Sri Lanka, the narrator watches his/her city die from the effects of sea-level rise and abandonment.
DystopiaDiasporaPost Apocalyptic
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PhilosophicalColonialismIntrospectivePolitical ResistanceSpeculative FictionElegiacLyricalLyrical ProseMelancholicSurvivalNear FutureSocial SFLiterary SFContemplativeFirst PersonLiteraryGrief And LossScience Fiction
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deathviolencewar
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