Book Reviews
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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
“One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant. “Probably not, though.” All The Birds In ... -
Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
“By its own reality, ecstasy makes people see that suffering is real. And without purpose. Ecstasy is a light that illuminates pain.” In Unquenchable Fire (1988), Rachel Pollack ... -
Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“And that was that. You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when ... -
The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough
“There is a language to dying. It creeps like a shadow alongside the passing years and the taste of it hides in the corners of our ... -
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
“There is a principle called TSIM. Through deep time the universe complicates, all things whatsoever arising from the mother quantum, precisely so this man (writhing now ... -
Medusa’s Web by Tim Powers
“The past,” she repeated, “it is always out there, isn’t it? I hate now. I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different ... -
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
“Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the fifth, and master of all.” N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season is a strikingly original fantasy novel. It is set in ... -
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick
“The changeling’s decision to steal a dragon and escape was born, though she did not know it then, the night the children met to plot the death ... -
Mythago Wood and Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock
“A fire is burning in Bird Spirit Land. My bones smoulder. I must journey there.” Forests are naturally places of mystery and wonder. Full of life ... -
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
“What songs do you sing to them in Elfland? There, where all songs are true, and all stories history… I have seen lovers walking in those ...
