![]() Beginning with a shocking opening line-“After I killed my wife, I had twenty hours before her new body finished printing downstairs”-this tightly woven story maintains its momentum and energy until the very last sentence. One of the eeriest stories in the collection is “Twenty Hours,” which forces us to confront the unethical and dangerous ways we use technology. For example, in “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867,” “Time Cubes,” and “Twenty Hours,” technology is smarter and more powerful than ever, but it’s the humans who manipulate it who are the monsters, not the machines. In the vein of Carmen Maria Machado and Mariana Enríquez, one of Fu’s greatest strengths is her ability to turn horror on its head, focusing less on the terror the modern-day monsters incite, but what they reveal about ourselves. In Kim Fu’s new short story collection, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the line between fear and desire often blurs, especially when the monster under the bed isn’t the Boogeyman, but fear and desire itself-the fear of loss, of loneliness, of the unattainable the desire for connection, for independence, for truth. ![]()
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