Tag: speculative fiction
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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 ... -
Interview with Kameron Hurley (THE WORLDBREAKER SAGA)
Kameron Hurley is the award-winning author of The Worldbreaker Saga, comprising The Mirror Empire (2014), Empire Ascendent (2015) and now the final volume The Broken Heavens ... -
OF CATS AND ELFINS by Sylvia Townsend Warner (BOOK REVIEW)
“What is the prevailing mood of these stories we call folk stories? Is it heated and sentimental like the undoubted products of the human imagination – ... -
A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher (Book Review)
The Good: A fresh take on what the ‘end of the world’ looks like, a story that is as heart-warming as it is heart-breaking, strikingly simple ...
