The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree by Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn

The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree by Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Holiday, Historical
Length: Short Story (40 pages)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

When the elves come out of the mirrors one Christmas, they send Sasha on a harrowing train trip to get back a brother she never knew she had.

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Sasha was a delightful mishmash of personality traits that sometimes contradicted each other. She was clever and kind in some scenes while being oblivious and honestly a bit selfish in others. I appreciated the fact that she was written in such a well-rounded way. She felt like a genuine person to me, flaws and all. Even when she made decisions that I strongly disagreed with, I still liked her quite a bit as a character. To me, this is a sign of good writing.

It would have been helpful to have a better explanation of why the antagonists were behaving the way that they did. The descriptions of their bad deeds were given a lot of attention, but without knowing what they were trying to accomplish it was difficult at times for me to keep paying attention to all of the terrible stuff they did.

This tale was full of adventure beginning in the very first sentence. While I can’t say exactly what happened in that sentence, I will say that it involved the elves getting up to no good in the middle of the night when no one expected them to be sneaking around. As exciting as that scene was, I somehow became even more excited to read everything that followed it. The authors did a wonderful job of keeping the audience on our toes as Sasha attempted to save her brother.

The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree was a creative story that should be read by anyone who is in the market for something about the darker side of Christmas.