Marco and the Red Granny

This was a bit of a unique experience for me - I've been a fan of Lafferty's work for awhile now, both in terms of her fiction projects (Playing for Keeps, Heaven, The Takeover) and her nonfiction work (the I Should Be Writing podcast), but this was my first time actually reading her in print. Well, as close to print as e-ink is, anyways.

This was a really fun read. I love the setting (an alien settlement on the moon becomes “Mollywood”, the hottest cultural Mecca of the 21st century), as well as how it looked at art, media, and commerce and the sometimes messy ways that they interact. There's a lot going on here, but Lafferty manages to present it in a way that leaves you satisfied with what you've gotten, but still hoping for more. It's not easy to do that in the novella format, but she does it well.