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Microreview [Game]: Spiritfarer by Thunder Lotus Games
A gentle, joyful experience that doesn't shy away from the complexity of its central premiseCW: Discussions of death, illness, some references to abuse and trauma, ableism. For a fuller discussion of...
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Microreview [book]: Ignorance is Strength, edited by John Joseph Adams,...
This is is science fiction shining a light on the world around us. These heart of these stories is in the lives lived through the adversity of a failing society.Six years ago John Joseph Adams and Hugh...
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Microreview [film]: The Love Witch
There’s a lot to love The Love Witch is a movie shot in 2016 that looks like it was shot in 1972. Supposedly, it was *the last* film shot on 35mm film and edited on a negative without using a digital...
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Microreview [book]: The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
A fun book, but anticlimactic in its collapsage(Note: While writing this review, I found it trickier than usual not to go into spoiler territory, and there's a fairly significant discussion of the...
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6 Books with Kimberly Unger
Kimberly created her first videogame back when the 80-column card was the new hot thing. This turned a literary love of science fiction into a full blown obsession with the intersection of technology...
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Interview: Jim C. Hines, author of Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen
photo credit: Lionel DavoustAuthor Jim C. Hines sold his first short story in the late 90s, and he's been going strong ever since. He cut his teeth on more anthologies than I can count, along with...
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Interview: Andrea Hairston, author of Master of Poisons
When I started seeing promotional material for Andrea Hairson's Master of Poisons, there was a turn of phrase that caught my eye: "Poison desert eats good farmland". Something to know about me is...
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6 Books With Karen Osborne
Karen Osborne is a speculative fiction writer and visual storyteller living in Baltimore. She is a graduate of Viable Paradise and the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and won awards for her news &...
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Microreview: In the Black by Patrick Tomlinson
Patrick Tomlinson’s In the Black turns Tomlinson’s penchant for science fiction into full bore Mil-SF Space Opera, starting a new series with space battle, corporate intrigue, and his brand of dry...
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Questing in Shorts: September 2020
Over the past month, I've found myself struggling to get much reading done again, as the various stresses of trying to live through Interesting Times have continued to take their toll. However, what I...
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Microreview [Book]: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
Night of the Mannequinsmight be full of shaky anxiety, but its authorial voice is always sturdy.Certain mental illnesses can color your perspective. Things become skewed and distorted. It's akin to...
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Interview: P. Djèlí Clark, author of Ring Shout
Hatred. Racism. Marches in the streets. Violence. Standing tall and doing what you need to do. I might be describing America right this second, while at the same time describing the America of 1922,...
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New Books Spotlight
Welcome to another edition of the New Books Spotlight, where each month or so we curate a selection of 6 new and forthcoming books we find notable, interesting, and intriguing. It gives us the...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Bad Idea Comics is the brainchild of former Valiant CEO Dinesh Shamdasani and despite the ominous name, I am quite excited to check out the books that are scheduled to drop in 2021. That is, if I am...
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Microreview: Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross
Charles Stross’ Dead Lies Dreaming introduces us to new characters and a new look at his Laundryfiles universe--showing us how supervillains, corporate types and others are living under the New...
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Introducing: Nerds on Tour!
Friends, I had this year's Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together project all planned out. Using the considerable wealth we have amassed from running a nerd culture fanzine, I was going to hire a slightly...
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Microreview [Book]: The Seventh Perfection by Daniel Polansky
The Seventh Perfection is a fantasy story that tries something uniquely demanding. To some, it will look like a gem, while others will see it as rot.Sometimes it feels like society moves in zigzags,...
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6 Books with Stina Leicht
Stina Leicht writes science fiction, horror, and fantasy. Her next novel, Persephone Station is a Feminist Space Opera scheduled to debut 5 January 2021 via Saga Press. She was a finalist for the...
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Microreview [book]: Empire of Gold by, S.A. Chakraborty
Plots, plans, secrets and lies brings the story of Nahri, Ali, Dara and the entire city of Daevabad to a conclusion.By the end of Kingdom of Copper, second in the Daevabad Trilogy, the protagonists of...
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Microreview [book]: Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
The author’s talents for complicated space opera with interesting characters translates wonderfully into secondary world fantasy beyond the Great Wall of Europe.Gyen Jebi has a problem. In their...
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