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Fast Ships, Black Sails (2008)

by Jeff VanderMeer(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1597800945 (ISBN13: 9781597800945)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Night Shade Books

review 1: The short stories were too tightly packed with characters and details... I felt like I was studying for an exam rather than reading for pleasure. It was like it wasn't enough to have stories about pirates. No, you had to have rival pirates and descriptions of various parts of the ship and names and job descriptions for each of the crew members and a detailed explanation of the cargo on the ship they captured... blah blah blah.
review 2: This was a mixed bag for me. I liked the stories by the authors I already knew I liked: Garth Nix, Kage Baker, Elizabeth Bear & Naomi Novik. There were a few other ones that stuck in my brain, many more that were forgettable and some that I still don't think i really understood. I mean, I appreciate that pirates can be in man... morey time periods and planetary systems and possibly parallel universes. But I really don't do well with narratives that parcel out information bit by bit because isn't the discovery of the strangeness much more satisfying than just being told in the first page or two? maybe, but my brain wasn't up to the task, so a lot of these felt more like working on an un-fun puzzle than reading a cool story. :-/ less

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