![]() ![]() Zinnia obligingly pricks herself – and finds herself transported to another world. When the time of what may be Zinnia’s final birthday rolls around, her best friend Charm thoroughly embarrasses her with a Sleeping Beauty-themed party, complete with a spindle. ![]() She associates her present condition with that of Sleeping Beauty, a figure who has fascinated her since she received an illustrated volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales as a child. Zinnia Gray is a twenty-one-year-old with Generalised Roseville Malady, an illness that has taken the life of every recorded sufferer before the age of twenty-two. Harrow’s A Spindle Splintered and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race… This post shall discuss two of the six contenders: Alix E. Having covered the Best Short Story and Best Novelette categories, WWAC’s review series on the 2022 Hugo Award finalists now reaches Best Novella. ![]()
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