2016: Sirens examined lovers and representations of romantic and erotic ideas in speculative spaces, including the notion of taking those things—or not—on your terms. Here are 10 beautiful stories of love (with more books/info here: sirensconference.org/news/2020/10/s…): 1/
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1. ANCIENT, ANCIENT by Kiini Ibura Salaam: “Sené. Pregnant Sené. Sené of the tired skin. Sené whose face held a million wrinkles, each one etched deeply as if carved over the course of forty years. Sené whose blood was only twenty-four years young.” #SirensAtHome
2. EMPIRE OF SAND by Tasha Shuri: “Mehr woke up to a soft voice calling her name. Without thought, she reached a hand beneath her pillow and closed her fingers carefully around the hilt of her dagger. She could feel the smoothness of the large opal...” #SirensAtHome
3. EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie Dimaline: “Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year—ever since that terrible night they’d had their first serious argument and he’d mysteriously vanished.” #SirensAtHome
4. FIRE LOGIC by Laurie J. Marks: “In the border regions of northern Shaftal, the peaks of the mountains loom over hardscrabble farmholds. The farmers there build with stone and grow in stone, and they might even be made of stone themselves...” #SirensAtHome
5. SONG OF BLOOD AND STONE by L. Penelope: “In the beginning, there was silence. The melody of life and breath and heartbeats and change lay locked in a noiseless hush. No green shoots worked their way out of rocky soil. The parched earth was sterile...” #SirensAtHome
6. THE BEAUTIFUL by Renée Ahdieh: “New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. I remember the moment I first heard someone say this. The old man meant to frighten me. He said there was a time when coffins sprang from the ground following a heavy rain...” #SirensAtHome
7. THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by R.B. Lemberg: “I sat alone in my old goatskin tent. Waiting, like I had for the last forty years, for Aunt Benesret to come back. Waiting to inherit her loom and her craft, the mastery of the Four Profound Weaves.” #SirensAtHome
8. THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern: “The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.” #SirensAtHome
9. THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone: “When Red wins, she stands alone. Blood slicks her hair. She breathes out steam in the last night of this dying world.” #SirensAtHome
10. WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS by Anna-Marie McLemore: “As far as he knew, she had come from the water. But even about that, he couldn’t be sure. It didn’t matter how many nights they’d met on the untilled land between their houses...” #SirensAtHome
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