Tag: speculative fiction
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EXPECT ME TOMORROW by Christopher Priest (BOOK REVIEW)
“How much longer could they continue to live here? The impossibility of life in this constant heat, the risk and inconvenience of venturing outside, the sense ... -
HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK by Sequoia Nagamatsu (BOOK REVIEW)
“Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like ... -
CURRENT RESEARCH IN SPECULATIVE FICTION (CRSF) 30th June to 1st July – Conference Report by T.O.Munro
Delegates hailing from France, Spain and Italy joined UK based delegates and online participants from as far afield as California, Dehli and Australia at CRSF’s first ... -
WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS by Nana Nkweti (BOOK REVIEW)
“A Mami Wata’s essence is moonlight and desire melded to one. Nala knows this in her marrow, in her fins. Lasirèn, Yemanja, Oxum, Erzulie, Jine-Faro, Santa ... -
BEAUTIFUL STAR by Yukio Mishima (BOOK REVIEW)
Yukio Mishima – Beautiful Star (1962, translated by Stephen Dodd 2022) “Death now enveloped earthlings in the form of beautiful clouds. The high crimson and violet ... -
THE MILL: A COSMOS by Bess Brenck Kalischer (BOOK REVIEW)
Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos (1922, translated by W. C. Bamberger 2021) “The concave mirrors were so oddly dimmed. The big city pierced ... -
THE ACTUAL STAR by Monica Byrne (BOOK REVIEW)
“The drink, the drums, the dance: as ever, these were the engines of the alteration of ordinary time. Xibalba felt so close, the liminal, the numinous, ... -
Women in SFF Author Spotlight – Eugen Bacon
Eugen Bacon is African Australian, a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. Her work has won, been shortlisted, longlisted or commended in national and international awards, ... -
Interview with Lavie Tidhar (CENTRAL STATION)
Lavie Tidhar is one of the most exciting writers working in speculative fiction today. His genre-defying novels Osama (2011), The Violent Century (2013) and A Man ... -
EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU by Heather Child (BOOK REVIEW)
I read Everything About You recently for my book club – but it was a title I’d put in our jar [we put suggestions of what to ...