Xingzhou
Ng Yi-Sheng
Clarkesworld
154
2019
ShortStory
5,526 words
Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
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In which we learn of the lives of immigrants to a fantastic city built on the surfaces of stars—stars that are stuck together into a cluster.
SlipstreamDiasporaIntertextual
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PhilosophicalColonialismFar FutureFreedomSpeculative FictionSecondary WorldLyricalIntimateWrySocial SFLiterary SFBelongingLiteraryIdentityVoice DrivenBittersweetScience Fiction
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.
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