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"This beautiful, complex debut collection assembles some of Nebula winner Pinsker's best stories into a twisting journey that is by turns wild, melancholic, and unsettling." ― Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Pinsker has shot like a star across the firmament with Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea.
In this collection, Pinsker weaves music, memory, technology, history, mystery, love, loss, and even multiple selves on generation ships and cruise ships, on highways and high seas, in murder houses and treehouses. They feature runaways, fiddle-playing astronauts, and retired time travelers; they are weird, wired, hopeful, haunting, and deeply human. They are often described as beautiful but Pinsker also knows that the heart wants what the heart wants and that is not always right, or easy.
The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story!) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present.
Author Notes
Sarah Pinsker is based in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of the novelette In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind. It won a 2014 Sturgeon Award. Her novelette Our Lady of the Open Road won the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
She is a singer/songwriter with three albums on various independent label. The third album was made with her rock band, the Stalking Horses.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
This beautiful, complex debut collection assembles some of Nebula winner Pinsker's best stories into a twisting journey that is by turns wild, melancholic, and unsettling. In the opening story, an injured farmer adjusts to living with a cybernetic arm that thinks it is a stretch of road in Colorado. "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" tells the story of a woman piecing together her husband's enigmatic past after a stroke leaves him speechless. "No Lonely Seafarer" pits a stablehand against a pair of sirens as he attempts to save his town from its restless sailors. In all of Pinsker's tales, humans grapple with their relationships to technology, the supernatural, and one another. Some, such as Ms. Clay in "Wind Will Rove," are trying to navigate the space between technology as preservation and technology as destruction. Others, such as Kima in "Remembery Day," rely on technology to live their lives. The stories are enhanced by a diverse cast of LGBTQ and nonwhite characters. Pinsker's captivating compendium reveals stories that are as delightful and surprising to pore through as they are introspective and elegiac. Agent: Kim-Mei Kirtland, Morhaim Literary. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Pinsker's stories have murder houses that speak, dream children that emerge from the sea, and a car shaped like a narwal, but the heart of this debut collection lies in its people. The women protagonists, many of whom love women, are adapting to or resisting new ways of life: a punk musician insists on playing live and driving manually while her world depends on recorded immersive experiences and self-driving cars; a girl adjusts to a robotic grandmother as she and her father leave their home country; in Wind Will Rove, a community that left Earth long ago asks why it still holds on so tightly to Earth's history and art and whether it should let go of it entirely in order to embrace the new. A particular highlight is In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind, a story primarily about Millie's impeding loss of her husband, where the sf gem at its core takes a backseat to the tree house George built with his children and to the question of whether he did his best to make the world a better place. This collection from an exciting new voice in speculative fiction is both haunting and hopeful.--Leah von Essen Copyright 2010 Booklist