
I had a beautiful moment with this collection. I was reading the final story with my newborn son asleep on me. If you read Uncertain Sons, and you should, you'll understand why this hit hard in that moment.
I've been following Thomas Ha since The Mub in Clarkesworld and this collection of short stories is unmissable sci fi. The imagery feels like watching Scavenger's Reign for the first time and I can't recommend this enough.
Good - but work
I was on a real Ishiguro train. One after the other for a couple of weeks. Then I hit the Unconsoled. It took me months. The weaving repetitive sentences and unreliable narration were kind of like Remains of the Day but next level - you'd have full pages of someone repeating the same thing. It's painful to get to but also somehow also an extremely fun fever dream to try and pull together.