MixedStrange HorizonsA tale of young people discovering the means to resist oppression, and there are striking moments of breakthrough. From an SF reader’s point of view, though, it is missing a few of the imaginative pieces that would truly make it sing. Anyway: Roll on Glyph, and let’s see what Smith has kept hidden from us.
Sara Mesa, Trans. by Katie Whittemore
PositiveEuropean LiteratureSara Mesa’s Four by Four is a novel of secrets revealed gradually. Its three sections progressively, though obliquely, uncover the happenings at Wybranwy College, an isolated boarding school that may be a refuge from the outside world, or an enclosure for those in its grounds ... This is a creepily atmospheric piece of work, in which Mesa uses her tale of a fictional institution to examine the use and abuse of power.
