Review of Vikki Stea, “The Museum of Lost Sound,” Luna Station Quarterly 64 (December 2025): 127-133 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
There was something about this story that I found particularly magical, something about the way it was told as a fantasy story even if its bones were fundamentally SF. I loved the way that Stea was able to evoke a potential future with just a few phrases and carefully selected words, building a framework that I as the reader could paint in the details. Part of me wants to live in New Shanghai; part of me rebelled against the whole idea with the very core of my being. That slightly insidious feeling of “this is not right” was a delicious undercurrent.
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