(ReacTor) Five Entertaining SFF Stories With Relatively Low Stakes

[James Nicoll]

Five Entertaining SFF Stories With Relatively Low Stakes

The whole world doesn't need to be in imminent danger for a story to
be compelling, as these more personal adventures demonstrate...

https://reactormag.com/five-entertaining-sff-stories-with-relatively-low-stakes/

[Lynn McGuire]

Post by James Nicoll
Five Entertaining SFF Stories With Relatively Low Stakes
The whole world doesn't need to be in imminent danger for a story to
be compelling, as these more personal adventures demonstrate...
https://reactormag.com/five-entertaining-sff-stories-with-relatively-low-stakes/

Zero for five but I do have "Legends and Lattes" in my SBR.

Lynn

[Tony Nance]

Post by James Nicoll
Five Entertaining SFF Stories With Relatively Low Stakes
The whole world doesn't need to be in imminent danger for a story to
be compelling, as these more personal adventures demonstrate...
https://reactormag.com/five-entertaining-sff-stories-with-relatively-low-stakes/

Interesting topic - I do indeed get "end of the world" fatigue sometimes
in my reading.

I've read the Leiber, and I am thinking I need to pick up the Baldree
and Lee.

Just a few that come to my mind:
I don't recall that any of Hughart's Master Li and Number Ten Ox stories
have very high stakes for the world at large.

Same for Williams' Drake Maijstral stories (which I now see are already
mentioned in the comments).[1]

Most (all?) of Cook's Garrett stories fit here as well.

And a great many of Vance's works focus on a protagonist and his
personal trials and tribulations.

Tony
[1] As are the Ethshar stories that also came to mind.

[BCFD 36]

Post by James Nicoll
Five Entertaining SFF Stories With Relatively Low Stakes
The whole world doesn't need to be in imminent danger for a story to
be compelling, as these more personal adventures demonstrate...
https://reactormag.com/five-entertaining-sff-stories-with-relatively-low-stakes/

Only the Leiber.