Troubled Waters: Five SFF Works About Rivers

[james_davis_nicoll]

Stories about rollin' on a river, featuring vampires, faeries, goddesses, and more.

Troubled Waters: Five SFF Works About Rivers

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[james_davis_nicoll]

Tor dot com article 535, 2025 article 4

465 articles to go to article 1000.

[adrian_turtle]

A different kind of river, not the mood you may be looking for, but a deeply moving story that feels less and less sf-nal as we've moved into the future is Nicola Griffith's Slow River

[dagibbs]

I, too, was thinking they were 5 surprisingly recent items.

[chrysostom]

Well, four.

[chrysostom]

Foster's Voyage to the City of the Dead, which you reviewed a while back.

[dragoness_e]

Murderous innkeepers seems to be a multi-cultural problem. In real life, there was a notorious innkeeper along the Ohio River frontier who used to dispose of lone travelers who wouldn't be missed. One of Karl Edward Wagner's Kane stories involves a murder inn like that, and one of Robert E. Howard's Soloman Kane stories involves a murderous innkeeper and an undead sorceror in the Black Forest.

[(Anonymous)]

And in English folk song - Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovYyYGfNLL8

[(Anonymous)]

That image has been widely used around the web in articles of many places and many topics. I guessed that it was from Iceland - a canyon carved out by repeated jokullhaups - and when one examines the URL it is attributed to Iceland. It would seem to be the Fjadrargljufur Canyon, also known as the Green Canyon.