3.5
A Human Stain
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Winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novelette!
"A Human Stain" by Kelly Robson is a disturbing horror novelette about a British expatriate at loose ends who is hired by her friend to temporarily care for his young, orphaned nephew in a remote castle-like structure in Germany.
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3.5
“had to reread to fully grasp what was going on. I was so confused for the first 10 pages then I blinked and the book was done (short story more like). would have liked for it to be longer. a bit creepy, a bit sapphic but because it was so short it cannot be more than a 3⭐ sadly. might check the author's other work in the future.”
“So nasty.
Strong start, confusing ending.”
About Kelly Robson
Kelly Robson’s Tor.com novella Waters of Versailles won the Aurora Award, and was a finalist for both the Nebula Award and World Fantasy Award. She has also been a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Sunburst Award. Her work has been selected for numerous Year’s Best anthologies. Kelly lives in Toronto with her wife, fellow SF writer A.M. Dellamonica.
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