The University of Oklahoma's World Literature Today recently published an excellent issue on World Science Fiction. I'll have more to report on that later, but I just received my copy in the mail yesterday and was simply blown away by Kij Johnson's "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss." This is a quiet, wondrous tale of redemption, magic, connection and epiphany.
Johnson's beautiful, fluid prose and strong characterization make this story move. It's told in stripped-down vignettes. Aimee, the protagonist, is a woman adrift in her life, searching for companionship and solidity. She finds it in a travelling troop of twenty-six mismatched primates and boyfriend fifteen years her junior.
The story defies summary, to its credit, and the explanation for Aimee's magic trick is...well, it's just beautiful...
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