Finished my Chrestomancis, such joy. Started 'Under the Pendulum Sun' by Jeanette Ng.

Yep. Chinese diaspora authors like Jeanette Ng pointed this out as soon as Chengdu won the vote.

loves/likes from previous years:

SPINNING SILVER, Naomi Novik
THE KILLING MOON, NK Jemisin
A LONG TIME DEAD, Samara Breger
THE SALT GROWS HEAVY, Cassandra Khaw
THE WORM OUROBOROUS, ER Eddison
BITTERBURN, Ann Aguirre
PARABLE OF THE SOWER, Octavia E Butler
UNDER THE PENDULUM SKY, Jeanette Ng

I tried to pick books that hit on what you had hit on. I’ve forgotten more than I have saved 🥹
1. Lud in the mist-Hope Mirlees
2. Under the pendulum sun- Jeanette Ng
3. Waking the moon-Elizabeth Hand
4. Cloud Atlas-David Mitchell
5. Piranesi- Susannah Clarke
6. Sleeping in flame- Jonathan Carroll

Thank you! I think with flash/short fiction a lot of the worldbuilding has to be off page, but you can build up hints and let the reader's imagination do the work.

(If you enjoyed this, I'd recommend Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng and Dark Breakers by CSE Cooney)

The Desert of Souls av Howard Andrew Jones
Under the Pendulum Sun av Jeanette Ng
The Revolutions av Felix Gilman

AIUI, some of it's down to the genre he's writing in: Jeanette Ng made an interesting observation years ago that with each draft he'd remove more of the elves in the background who were doing mundane things, as it didn't fit with the feel of the kind of epic he was writing.

(46) Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng

Gothic fantasy, sibcest, life in the faerie court for 2 Victorian missionaries who end up consumed by the world they're trying to change. I really enjoyed this.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

Good morning! I’m currently reading Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng. Christian missionaries trying to convert the Fae. Let’s see how that works out for them…

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Have you tried Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng? Gothic Manor House lite horror about missionaries to fairyland; I don't recall it getting particularly gory (someone please correct me if I'm forgetting something!)

I remember Jeanette Ng pointing out that her trappings in the earliest versions are a horse, a bow, and a riding crop

John W. Campbell, editor of Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of SF, horrifically racist even by the standards of his day, and former eponym of what is now the Astounding Award for Best New Writer (renamed in 2019 after a barn-burner of an acceptance speech by Jeanette Ng).

He makes me proud!

Prime Minister #JustinTrudeau, please #RescindTheResignation. This is not the time to leave office.

Miigwich! 🪶🙌🏽🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #IStandWithPMTrudeauALWAYS