Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo
by James Tiptree, Jr.
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (September 28, 1981), pp. 140-167.
Dreamy fantasy novelette set in a post(mid?)-apocalyptic imagining of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Tiptree Jr’s languorous, lyrical style and the story within a story make for pleasant enough reading, though the ocean tale is actually quite slight when stripped of cultural exoticism.