![]() I’m a scientist in my dayjob, which means I have both a grounding in general science, and a healthy scepticism as to what science can and can’t explain, and how difficult it is to provide accurate predictions of what science will be like, even in a few decades (I usually settle for plausible rather than accurate science in my stories). I write odd things–I’m a latecomer to SF as a genre, and so only recently caught up to enough classics to have a decent genre background. ![]() This is one of the novelettes on the Hugo ballot this year, and deservedly so. In this story, scenes alternate between present and past, and the mix works well to show the intertwined lives of three friends. This is a world with Aztec religion and spells - and nanotechnology, maglevs, radios, and other SFnal concepts. This novelette is set in Greater Mexica (as is her novel, Servant of the Underworld, which I’ve just started reading and am enjoying very much - although it’s a different continuity). ![]() “The Jaguar House, in Shadow” by Aliette de Bodard ![]()
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