2 short stories by Iona Sharma

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mllelaurel posted last week about Light, Like a Candle Flame by Iona Sharma, and reminded me how much I love Sharma's work.

Archana and Chandni is about an Indian wedding IN SPACE, or at least on a spaceship whose AI is the little sister of one of the brides. It's funny and delightful and has lots of family feeling. The focus of the story is really the sibling relationship and how the marriage is changing it, but we get to see the couple being lovely together.

Alnwick is mostly about a civil servant running a space programme funded through an archaic British institution, but it opens and closes with the civil servant at home with her girlfriend; the domestic informing the political and vice versa.