#Rae Mariz

[smokefalls]

See, storytellers are time travelers. Always have been. Or at least they could be, if they understood their true relationship with time.

Rae Mariz, "The Imperfect Blue Marble" from Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future

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Happy MerMay! Full titles under the cut!

The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist by SL Huang

Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz

The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey

Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C Parker

Chlorine by Jade Song

The Perfect Waters: Odedsa Book One by LeeSha McCoy

Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Rise of the Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste

A Comb of Wishes by Lisa Stringfellow

The Secret of Haven Point by Lisette Auton

A Song of Silver and Gold by Melissa Karibian

The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Out of the Blue by Jason June

Seven Tears at High Tide by CB Lee

The Seafarer's Kiss by Julia Ember

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner

The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

Sirena: A Mermaid Legend from Guam by Tanya Chargualaf Taimanglo illustrated by Sonny K Chargualaf

Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh

Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert D San Souci illustrated by Brian Pinkney

Mermaid and Pirate by Tracey Baptiste illustrated by Leisl Adams

[beareadsbookz]

AAPI Heritage Month Hopefuls

(books I want to read if I can get them)

Rise of the Manō by Leialoha Humpherys

Poūkahangatus by Tayi Tibble

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

Hula by Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes

Vā: Stories of the Women of the Moana edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Wendt Young

The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad

Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao

The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le

The Do’s and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz

The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim

One Boy, No Water by Lehua Parker

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

The Wonders We Seek by Saadia Faruqi & Aneesa Mumtaz

Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

The Dragon Prince: Stories and Legends From Vietnam edited by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

Muslim Girls Rise by Saira Amir

Fish Swimming In Dappled Sunlight by Alison Watts & Riku Onda

Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocco

Banyan Moon by Thao Thai

Force Of Fire by Sayantani DasGupta

Rangikura by Tayi Tibble

Writing In Color by multiple authors (including but not limited to Nafiza Azad, Axie Oh, Joan He, Chloe Gong, and Darcie Little Badger)

I will be reblogging with reviews as I finish these!

[maryrobinette]

My Favorite Bit: Rae Mariz Talks About WEIRD FISHES

Rae Mariz is joining us today to talk about her novel, Weird Fishes. Here’s the publisher’s description: AN UNDERWATER TALE OF FRIENDSHIP AGAINST MONSTROUS ODDS When Ceph, a squid-like scientist, discovers proof of the ocean’s slowing currents, she makes the dangerous ascent from her deep-sea civilization to the uncharted surface above. Out of her depths and helpless in her symbiotic mech suit,…

[thoughtportal]

I reading this book, Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz about an octopus that is a scientist and has come up from the deepest part of the ocean to find out why the currents are slowing.

I wish octopus could learn how to read. They could be pen pals with middle schoolers.

[expendablemudge]

WEIRD FISHES by RAE MARIZ via Stelliform Press lives up to its name…unsettling, w/a violent ending, & so thought-provoking you'll hate for it to end. https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2023/11/begin-world-over-blackindigenous.html

[aroaessidhe]

2022 reads // twitter thread  

Weird Fishes

novella about a cephalopod scientist from the deep ocean & a merperson who become friends while investigating what's causing the ocean currents to slow

undersea near future climate fiction

first contact from the other POV

climate change, colonialism

[thoughtportal]

if you like this post I have two book recs for you

Knocking on Heaven's Door, Sharman Apt Russell

weird fishes rae mariz

[chetungwan]

I don't know if there's anyone else on the planet who's read The Unidentified by Rae Mariz, but that book lives in my head rent-free and not because it was good

It just. Had so much potential. There were so many themes and motifs and interesting little world building tidbits that floated in and out, completely unfulfilled. There's this one scene that sits, sometimes, in my hindbrain, screaming why didn't you do something with that

All the highschools are "Games", or basically, giant malls where kids learn to be influencers, and at some point early on, one of the teachers tells the main character the history of the phrase "it may be crooked but it's the only game in town". Which, cool, nice play on words. And then later on, that teacher gets fired and tells the mc on the way out "it's not the only game in town"

And you would think that'd be a call back. And maybe it was, but it was so incredibly poorly written because the main character's next thought is "actually, it was. The next closest Game was two towns away" which so completely throws off the beat that the entire section falls flat! And the entire book is like this!

[wordsnpoetry]

who are you when you’re alone? when no one is watching? what’s left then?

rae mariz

[smokefalls]

Some storytellers tailor their tales to what their listeners want. My training taught me to look for the story the listener didn’t know they needed.

Rae Mariz, "The Imperfect Blue Marble" from Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future

[thequotejournals]

Who are you when you’re alone? When no one is watching? What’s left then?

Rae Mariz

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

12 & 74 for the tbr list ask game? ✨

12 is Fat by Hanne Blank (nobody can title a book like Hanne Blank), 74 is Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz!

[thekatemarlowe]

Thoughts: RAE MARIZ’s Weird Fishes

Rae Mariz takes us under the sea to discover the ocean’s view of our changing world in Weird Fishes. The ocean world is extremely complex, and Mariz does a great a job bringing in parallels like gender identity and racism to help us relate to all the creatures from the deep. This is important because the overall moral of our story is one of resilience. We are hurting our planet and since our oceans make up such a big part of that, it means life there has no choice but to deal with our detrimental choices. These creatures suffering from oppression of their own are further stripped of a decent way of life because of the greed of humanity. I loved Mariz’s vivid imagery in describing all the different characters and their way of life in a dreamlike world. If you are into any type of sea creature, you’ll love this book, but don’t come thinking Disney’s Ariel is going to swim around the corner!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#9yrsago THE UNIDENTIFIED: dystopian YA about education transformed into a giant, heavily sponsored game

Rae Mariz's debut YA The Unidentified is a thrilling, engaging polemic about the corporatization of kids' lives in the guise of a mystery story.

In the future, the US education system has gone bankrupt, and has been rescued by the private sector, who convert giant malls into heavily surveilled school buildings in which all education takes place as a series of sponsored games that, on the one hand, deliver tailored, creative curriculum, but, on the other, commodify all learning, social intercourse and creativity, turning it all into trends and products that are sold back to the students and the wider world.

Our plucky heroine is a girl named Kid. Kid likes mixing her own music, is a moderately successful student, but isn't anywhere near the top of the social ladder. Far from it; she's hardly got any friends at all on her profile, and is skeptical of the whole enterprise.

This makes her an ideal candidate for the school's corporate sponsors, who are anxious to reach the disaffected outsiders who are the last remaining target market. So when Kid discovers a gruesome, anti-corporatist prank and begins to investigate it, it's only natural that the sponsors would swoop in to underwrite her mystery and use it to sell a whole new package of anti-sponsor sponsored goods.

Subversive, cleverly written, challenging, and surprising, The Unidentified is a great book for young adults and the grownups who care about them, in the tradition of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies. Highly recommended.

The Unidentified

https://boingboing.net/2010/10/08/the-unidentified-dys.html

[scanlonblogs]

Who are you when you’re alone? When no one is watching? What’s left then?

Rae Mariz

@scanlonblogs