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
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The Importance of Imagined Futures: Review of Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers
The Importance of Imagined Futures: Review of Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers Alex Kingsley Under Review:The Terraformers. Annalee Newitz. Tor Books, January 2023. The Terraformers is a new novel by journalist and SFF writer Annalee Newitz. It tracks the progress of fictional planet Sask-E and its inhabitants. Six thousand years in the future, the concept of … Continue reading The Importance of Imagined Futures: Review of Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers
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
Toward a Decolonial Ecocriticism: Review of Angry Planet by Anne Stewart
Toward a Decolonial Ecocriticism: Review of Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart Kelly McKisson Under Review:Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World. Anne Stewart. University of Minnesota Press, January 2023. The 2022 United Nations Climate Conference, COP27, concluded with a decision to establish a loss and damage … Continue reading Toward a Decolonial Ecocriticism: Review of Angry Planet by Anne Stewart
Reclaiming What Has Been Taken: A Review of Rachel Harrison’s Such Sharp Teeth
Reclaiming What Has Been Taken: A Review of Rachel Harrison’s Such Sharp Teeth Leticia Urieta Under Review:Such Sharp Teeth. Rachel Harrison. Berkley, October 2022. Stories of werewolves have long played with the notion of the wild beast inside all of us, howling to get out. In classic films like The Wolfman and An American Werewolf … Continue reading Reclaiming What Has Been Taken: A Review of Rachel Harrison’s Such Sharp Teeth
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
A Thesis on Abiding Love and Undying Hope: Review of How to Build a Home for the End of the World by Keely Shinners
A Thesis on Abiding Love and Undying Hope: Review of How to Build a Home for the End of the World by Keely Shinners Shikha Vats Under Review:How to Build a Home for the End of the World. Keely Shinners. Perennial Press, May 2022. Early on in Keely Shinners’ How to Build a Home for … Continue reading A Thesis on Abiding Love and Undying Hope: Review of How to Build a Home for the End of the World by Keely Shinners
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
Guess the Nonhuman: Review of Martin Crowley’s Accidental Agents
Guess the Nonhuman: Review of Martin Crowley’s Accidental Agents: Ecological Politics Beyond the Human Margaryta Golovchenko Under Review:Accidental Agents: Ecological Politics Beyond the Human. Martin Crowley. Columbia University Press, February 2022. It is perhaps more efficient to talk about Martin Crowley’s book Accidental Agents: Ecological Politics Beyond the Human in terms of what it is … Continue reading Guess the Nonhuman: Review of Martin Crowley’s Accidental Agents
Revolutionary Rupture: A review of China Miéville’s A Spectre, Haunting
Revolutionary Rupture: A review of China Miéville's A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto Anna McFarlane Under Review:A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto. China Miéville. Haymarket Books, November 2022. China Miéville is the most important UK author of the early twenty-first century; his Bas Lag fantasy trilogy brought a new kind of socially-conscious weird … Continue reading Revolutionary Rupture: A review of China Miéville’s A Spectre, Haunting
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