Well, the first review of the first issue of The Dark, featuring stories by Nnedi Okorafor, Rachel Swirsky, Lisa Hannett and myself, is out.
A. J. Sikes has some lovely things to say, including this about “By My Voice I Shall Be Known”:
The world-building in this story is exceptional, as is the prose and pacing. Slatter would have the reader so thoroughly appreciate river life in Bellsholm that she crafted each sentence to be as an eddy or rapid in a current pulling towards the final moment.
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