Double the Hustle: A Review of The Sleepless by Victor Manibo Alexander Pyles Under Review:The Sleepless, Victor Manibo. Erewhon, August 2022. Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present. A. A. Gill This sentiment of … Continue reading Double the Hustle: A Review of The Sleepless by Victor Manibo
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Longing for What We Never Had: A Review of Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility
Longing for What We Never Had: A Review of Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility Ben Berman Ghan Under Review:Sea of Tranquility. Emily St. John Mandel. Knopf, April 5, 2022. Within Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, time is a mountain you climb, callouses forming along tired and bloody fingers, giddy from the … Continue reading Longing for What We Never Had: A Review of Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility
A Gasp of What Could Be: A Review of Sarah Blake’s Clean Air
A Gasp of What Could Be: A Review of Sarah Blake’s Clean Air Alexander Pyles Under Review:Clean Air. Sarah Blake. Algonquin Books, February 8, 2022. It might be hard to imagine life after COVID-19: thankfully, fiction is already attempting to capture what it could be. Sarah Blake’s Clean Air imagines what our pandemic could have … Continue reading A Gasp of What Could Be: A Review of Sarah Blake’s Clean Air
Collaboration, Mourning, Growth: Review of Grievers by adrienne maree brown
Collaboration, Mourning, Growth: Review of Grievers by adrienne maree brown Shelby Brewster Under Review: Grievers. By adrienne maree brown. AK Press, September 7, 2021. Grievers is the third plague story I’ve read during the pandemic. (First was Ling Ma’s Severance, then The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade.) Though brown began writing her first … Continue reading Collaboration, Mourning, Growth: Review of Grievers by adrienne maree brown
The SFF Librarian Reviews: The Animals in That Country by Laura McKay
SFF Librarian Reviews Jeremy Brett As a voracious reader, and as someone for whom science fiction and fantasy are part of my daily job as a science fiction librarian, I come across a lot of wonderful work in these genres. I love bringing to the attention of interested readers books and authors that bring me … Continue reading The SFF Librarian Reviews: The Animals in That Country by Laura McKay
What Does It Mean to Grieve?: Review of The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade
What Does it Mean to Grieve?: Review of The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade Shelby Brewster Under Review: The Impossible Resurrection of Grief. By Octavia Cade. Stelliform Press, May 20, 2021. Content Warning: Suicide Octavia Cade’s new novella, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, is, appropriately, the story of a pandemic. A vague psychological … Continue reading What Does It Mean to Grieve?: Review of The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade
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