Author: Jonathan Thornton
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MORDEW by Alex Pheby (Book Review)
“It is a misapprehension to imagine that only the reader reads. The book reads, too, when its pages are opened. Your souls spill words into the ... -
The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again by M. John Harrison (Book Review)
“If all change is sea change, he thought on the train back to Mortlake, then he could describe his own crisis – whatever it had been ... -
FRESHWATER by Akwaeke Emezi (Book Review)
“It was difficult to accept not being human but still being contained in a human body. For that one, though, the secret was in the situation. ... -
DEAD ASTRONAUTS by Jeff VanderMeer (Book Review)
“You want. Things to be words. That are not words. Could never be words. Your fox is some other construct. We did not agree to that. ... -
The Best of R. A. Lafferty (2019) by R. A. Lafferty (Book Review)
“’There is only one story in the world,’ he said, ‘and it pulls two ways. There is the reason part that says “Hell, it can’t be” ... -
THE STRESS OF HER REGARD by Tim Powers (Book Review)
“Byron nodded. ‘These creatures aren’t especially good visually, but they are purely matches in a powder keg when it comes to language. I wonder how many ... -
THE BREACH by M. T. Hill (Book Review)
“This is the stuff you struggle to put in your reports. The smell. The taste. The way your body will make itself smaller until your back ... -
COMET WEATHER by Liz Williams (Book Review)
“And those vast distant suns were obviously not the same as the calm-faced women with their jewels and their sprigs of herbs who paraded through the ... -
BLOODBUSTERS by Francesco Verso (Book Review)
“As soon as the liquid starts flowing so does the excitement. The blood beggars lose it at the sight of available blood. The first in line ... -
A YEAR IN THE LINEAR CITY by Paul Di Filippo (Book Review)
“These neighbors of ours are undeniably, unfathomably provincial. But so are we, as evidenced by our unthinking offense. The psychic landscape of the City is ...
