Stories Short Story Liberating Earth Story: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Annie’s Arms 1 image Overview How to Read Reviews 1 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Saturday, January 31, 2015 Written by Xanna Eve Chown Publisher Obverse Books Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save How to read Annie’s Arms: Books Liberating Earth Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 3 June 2025 · 160 words Review by Molly ★★★☆☆ – I had a good time! A pleasantly quotidian glimpse of a very strange alternate present. The sort of thing made for anthologies. It ultimately goes in a fun, non-obvious direction, which I appreciate – the sort of direction you might (stereotypically, perhaps, but in this case correctly) imagine is more expected to come about in an anthology written exclusively by women. Lovely to read something by Chown outside of Big Finish! The story is let down by an all-too-abrupt ending and a lingering feeling that neither the “hook” nor the characters were quite compelling enough – it spends many of its precious words on worldbuilding the same few aspects somewhat redundantly, leaving the more personal elements underexplored. Until the final couple of pages I was certain that Annie was going to boink her shade. Deeply thankfully, that did not turn out to be the case. I couldn’t have taken it after Kate Orman’s (probably intentionally) eminently unpleasant psychosexual onslaught. Molly View profile Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics More Ratings Needed! 2 ratings Member Statistics Read 7 Favourited 1 Reviewed 1 Saved 0 Skipped 7 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote