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A Memory of Wind: A Tor.Com Original |  | Author: Rachel Swirsky
Publisher: Tor Books
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  13 reviews
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B003OYIA74
Publication Date: June 2, 2010
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Product Description
The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia--and how does a human girl become the wind? The starkness and psychological insight of Rachel Swirsky’s Tor.com story earned it a place among the finalists for the 2010 Nebula Award. Rachel Swirsky's short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Subterranean Magazine, among others, and has been collected in Year's Best anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strahan, and the VanderMeers. She is also the submissions editor of Podcastle, an audio fantasy magazine.
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 Short and capturing August 24, 2010
geoff thomas (MD)
This was a haunting kind of work - just the kind I like.
It created a "feel".
A sacrifice to the Greek gods to obtain wind for their sails to go to Troy.
Nuf said.....
Beautiful and Free! August 10, 2010
Tom Hansen (Chandler, AZ USA)
Short Stories, they say they are a dead medium, but I find them fascinating. Some days I don't want to sit down and start a new novel, especially since most of the books I like to read are trilogies at minimum.
This story is about a girl named Iphigenia, set in the time of the war of Troy. She becomes the wind, and this story gives us background into how she becomes the wind.
It was a nice story. It has a lot of dream-like qualities to it. Her memories jump from one to the other and weave together a beautiful background to her life and her relationship to the one who will sacrifice her. My only complaint was the jumping around made it a little hard to latch on to the storyline in the beginning. Knowing more about the Greek myths and recognizing the people mentioned might have helped me get into the story sooner.
I wish I would have known more about Greek myths to know where she fits in. It leaves me with a thirst to seek out more writings set in those times.
Did I mention it is free on the Kindle? Go get it now!
 Achingly Beautiful Short Story August 9, 2010
R. Larkin (Philadelphia, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The backstory, briefly, is this: When that trollop, Helen, eloped with Paris, Prince of Troy ("Aphrodite made me do it!"); her husband Menelaus turned to his brother-in-law Agamemnon and oily Odysseus for help. Among them, they assembled a massive fleet of a thousand ships, and prepared to descend on Troy to retrieve the straying wife.
Now, Agamemnon had previously insulted the goddess Artemis, so she becalmed the ships in the harbor until Agamemnon should offer the life of his oldest daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the insult. To lure the girl there for the sacrifice, Agamemnon sent a message that she was to come to be married to the hot hero, Achilles. He hadn't expected that his wife, Clytemnestra, would insist on attending her daughter's wedding.
This short story takes place mostly in Iphigenia's head during that period, with occasional flashbacks to her earlier life. It is an achingly beautiful, appropriately disjointed account of the phrase "my entire life flashed before my eyes," from the perspective of the Trojan War's perhaps least regarded victim.
I will remember it for a long time.
Very Nicely Written July 30, 2010
booknerdwoman17
It was written almost like a poem in my mind. Enjoyed it thoroughly. Very quick read. Recommend it to everyone.
Beautiful, unforgettably melancholy July 29, 2010
Matthew Darragh (Jacksonville, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A young girl's life flashing before her eyes captured beautifully. The sense of nostalgia is described in such a real yet dream like manner. It is a short that will stick with me for some time.
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