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Interview: Sue Burke, Author of Immunity Index
photo by Daniel LewisSue Burke is an author and translator who has lived in Madrid and Milwaukee, and currently resides in Chicago. Her newest novel, Immunity Index, comes out on May 4th. She is also...
View ArticleShort Fiction Round Up: March and April 2021
Hello readers! I’m back with a short fiction round up spanning two months, as I was absent in March due to a death in the family. So…please enjoy some short stories that helped me grapple with...
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Microreview [Book]: Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
A skillfully crafted fantasy story that's as ethereal as its spirits.Our bodies can often seem possessed. To most people, that possession occurs in a metaphorical sense. Dogma possesses us, as it’s...
View ArticleThursday Morning Superhero
In this month's installment I wanted to focus on the comic book streaming content that is landing on your television for May and June. Invincible reached its upsetting conclusion and the Falcon and...
View ArticleMicroreview: The Water Horse by Melissa Scott
Water Horse by Melissa Scott is a fully immersive epic fantasy with deep notes of character, worldbuilding and magic making for a wonderful and engaging story.In a world of myth and magic, of prophecy,...
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Invincible, or how to blow up daddy issues to the stratosphere
Underneath the gore, Invincible is a classic Freudian tale about the tragedy of hero worshipThe first shot of the first episode of new Amazon Studios series Invincible shows the sun, the American flag,...
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Microreview [book]: Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Nuanced epic fantasy in a precolonial West African inspired settingAfter the intriguing debut that was Suyi Davies Okungbowa's David Mogo, Godhunter, I've been intrigued by what Okungbowa's take on...
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Jupiter's Legacy wants to question the Greatest Generation, but has no clue how
This show is convinced it's telling a Godfather-level family saga, but it's just God-awfulIt's better if you don't waste your time with Jupiter's Legacy. I can't speak for the original comic, but its...
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Nanoreviews: Axiom's End, Angel of the Overpass, Murder by Other Means
Ellis, Lindsday. Axiom's End [St. Martin's Press]It's interesting (to me) how a reader can know absolutely nothing about a book and avoid any sort of plot description and still be so very wrong about...
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6 Books with Nicole Kornher-Stace
Nicole Kornher-Stace lives in New Paltz, NY, with her family. Her books include ARCHIVIST WASP (Small Beer Press/Big Mouth House, 2015) and LATCHKEY (Mythic Delirium, 2018), which are about a...
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Yasuke celebrates African heritage at the expense of Japan's
Even a mythical reimagining should make an attempt at making senseFirst, the facts:In 1582, Japan was going through a violent process of unification. After defeating almost every other local leader and...
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6 Books with Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed ten-book Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series, and other novels, novellas and short stories including Children of Time (which won...
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Microreview [book]: Floodpath by Emily B Martin
Floodpath wraps up the story of a world-changing embassy, where intrigues over power run from the glass windows of the palace to slave camps in the desert.At the end of Sunshield, the first in the...
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Microreview [Book]: Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
A story with instructive, powerful, and necessary anger.Oppression can be physical, but it’s often more than that. America has subjugated Black bodies for a long time—first with blatant slavery, and...
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Microreview [book]: The Blue-Spangled Blue by David Bowles
A failed promise, particularly when it comes to representation.It might be breaking some sort of reviewer code to say so, but let me say it anyway: I wanted to like this book so very much. Despite a...
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Genre Fight! Horror vs. Sci-Fi In Film: The 1930s
Welcome to the second installment of my series rounding up some key horror and sci-fi movies of a particular era, forcing them stare right at each other while standing too close together, and then...
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Review: We Are Satellites
This amazing near-future novel weaves a delicate thread through the messy places where our personal, professional and political lives meetSometimes, current events seem to give us an ominous glimpse of...
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Alternate History: Masked and Anonymous
Bob Dylan’s Masked and Anonymous is a sideways and sidewise foray for the singer into an alternate America, but one that is still undeniably our own.Science Fiction and Bob Dylan are two spheres of...
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The Novella Files: Introduction
A novella is, by definition, a short novel. Actually they are very short novels - the average length is a mere 20,000 - 40,000 words. The average SF/F novel, by contrast, is somewhere in the 80,000 -...
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Eden has cute robots, fun adventure, and deep ideas
Any story for kids that respects its audience enough to present hard ethical questions should be celebrated"Does this world need humans?" is not a topic you often find in G-rated cartoons. Netflix's...
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