Strange Horizons, December 14, 2015

“At Whatever Are Their Moons” by Sunny Moraine

Reviewed by Christos Antonaros

In the short story “At Whatever Are Their Moons” by Sunny Moraine, Cora is a captain not only proud of her flying ship, which she designed, but deeply in love with it. Following this affection, she will travel across the world on a quest for a way to give her creation a conscience and a voice.

The author successfully guides us through this extraordinary universe, full of wild nature and creatures that excite our imagination. Cora’s wish for her ship to possess a soul, and the sacrifices she has to make for it resembles every artist, mechanic, or architect who wishes the same every time they finish a masterpiece.

Christos Antonaros is a dark fiction author with a love for European mythology.