Jeremy Brett Under Review:Lone Women. Victor LaValle. One World, March 2023. Victor LaValle is no stranger to showcasing horror in places that already inspire a sense of dread or discomfort, whether a disorienting mental asylum in The Devil in Silver or the urban strangeness of New York City in The Changeling. With Lone Women, LaValle … Continue reading I Keep Secrets: Review of Victor LaValle’s Lone Women
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Murder in the Stars: Review of Mur Lafferty’s Station Eternity
Murder in the Stars: Review of Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity Jeremy Brett Under Review:Station Eternity. Mur Lafferty. Ace, October 2022. To me, the best murder mysteries are the ones that explore character, which delve into the emotional lives and backgrounds of the victims, the suspects, and even the detectives seeking to uncover the truth. The … Continue reading Murder in the Stars: Review of Mur Lafferty’s Station Eternity
A Way Around the Caterpillars: Review of Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
A Way Around the Caterpillars: Review of Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty Jeremy Brett Under Review:Night of the Living Rez. Morgan Talty. Tin House Books, July 2022. Despite the horror movie title, there appears on the surface to be nothing particularly speculative about the powerful new short story collection from Penobscot (Panawhaspkek) … Continue reading A Way Around the Caterpillars: Review of Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Some Heroes Are Made, Not Born: Review of T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone
Some Heroes Are Made, Not Born: Review of T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone REVIEW AUTHOR NAME Under Review:Nettle & Bone. T. Kingfisher. Tor Books, April 2022. I’m always fond of the reluctant hero image: the person who, Frodo Baggins-style, would much rather be left alone to live a quiet life but takes on the mantle … Continue reading Some Heroes Are Made, Not Born: Review of T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone
Rethinking the Final Frontier: Review of Astrotopia by Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Rethinking the Final Frontier: Review of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race by Mary-Jane Rubenstein Jeremy Brett Under Review:Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. Mary-Jane Rubenstein. University of Chicago Press, November 2022. Few books of late have given me such pause as Mary-Jane Rubenstein’s thoughtful Astrotopia. Like many, I … Continue reading Rethinking the Final Frontier: Review of Astrotopia by Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Heaven Can Wait: A Review of Even Though I Knew the End
Heaven Can Wait: A Review of Even Though I Knew the End Jeremy Brett Under Review:Even Though I Knew the End. C.L. Polk. Tordotcom, November 2022. C.L. Polk’s fiction is deeply concerned with the societal, psychological, and personal costs of magic, and the ways in which magic and social inequalities interact. In her 3-novel Kingston … Continue reading Heaven Can Wait: A Review of Even Though I Knew the End
Marvelous Flights: A Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Marvelous Flights: A Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill Jeremy Brett Under Review:When Women Were Dragons. Kelly Barnhill. Doubleday Books, May 2022. Some women already resemble dragons, it seems to me – fierce, desiring to fly free, too big to be ignored – but here comes Kelly Barnhill with her new novel … Continue reading Marvelous Flights: A Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Monumental Muting: A Review of Mat Johnson’s Invisible Things
Monumental Muting: A Review of Mat Johnson’s Invisible Things Jeremy Brett Under Review:Invisible Things, Mat Johnson. One World, June 2022. One recurring lesson in science fiction is the realization—in all its sadness and its joy—that we take into outer space everything that makes us who and what we are, everything that makes us human. Space … Continue reading Monumental Muting: A Review of Mat Johnson’s Invisible Things
I’ll Love You in This Space and Time: Review of The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
I’ll Love You in This Space and Time: Review of The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe (with Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Eve L. Ewing, Yohanca Delgado, and Sheree Renée Thomas) Jeremy Brett Under Review: The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer. Janelle Monáe. Harper Voyager, April … Continue reading I’ll Love You in This Space and Time: Review of The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
The Tide of Life: Review of Spear by Nicola Griffith
The Tide of Life: Review of Spear by Nicola Griffith Jeremy Brett Under Review:Spear. By Nicola Griffith. Tordotcom, April 19, 2022. Nicola Griffith has dazzled us before with her exploration of a Dark Age Britain through the eyes of a redoubtable character of intense observation and strength. With the wonderful Hild, Griffith told the story … Continue reading The Tide of Life: Review of Spear by Nicola Griffith
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