Revenge Stacks
Yamagami Tetsuya’s Revenge
Dylan Levi King | Palladium | 2nd February 2023
A journey into the dark hinterland of post-war Japanese politics, when three generations of the Kishi/Abe family led the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and the LDP entwined itself with criminal gangs, intelligence agencies, and religious cults. This history was an open secret, but a secret of sorts, until prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot and explanations became unavoidable (3,500 words)
In The Stacks
Robin Sloan | Brand New Box | 6th January 2023
A new short story by Robin Sloan! All the classic ingredients are here: an improbable hero or two, a library (of course), old technology, new technology, sadness, joy, youth, age, grace, nostalgia, incongruity, music — and a generous sprinkling of that same happy-magic dust which made Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough such charmers (3,500 words)