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Microreview[Novel]: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu...
An extremely cosy novel of found family, romance and magic, that may just be slightly too nice for its own good.Cosy fantasy seems to be more and more prevalent recently - and with good reason. When...
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Microreview [book]: Empire of Exiles by Erin Evans
Intrigue, mystery and danger surround the archives at the heart of an Empire.The workers at the Imperial Archives suffer under a lot of stress in their normal daily jobs. Cataloguing and keeping the...
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Marvel remains faithful to its TV formula: start promising, end meh
Yet another Marvel character with great potential becomes trapped by the insatiable sequel-teasing machineOnce upon a time, a short scene after the ending of Iron Man 2 sufficed to tease Thor. That's...
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The Long Look Back: Star Wars and Superheroes
It has been ten years since Disney acquired the Star Wars galaxy and our writers here weighed in on what we thought this might mean for fans, and ten years since I wrote what remains one of my favorite...
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Microreview [book]: The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Lesbian Space Pirates! And so much more...The modern SFF community sure loves a pithy one-line book description, especially when said description involves the word "space" or "in space". Tamsyn Muir's...
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Microreview [book]: The Memory in the Blood by Ryan Van Loan
The Memory in the Blood concludes Rvan Van Loan's Fall of the Gods (Buc and Eld) trilogy, by raising the stakes to a confrontation with truly metaphysical powers threatening to dominate the...
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6 Books with Laura Anne Gilman
Laura Anne Gilman is the author of more than twenty novels, including the Nebula award-nominated The Vineart War trilogy and the award-winning Devil’s West series from Saga Press/ Simon & Schuster....
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'Exception' raises questions about humanity's right to live
This existential drama unfolds at both the individual and the civilizational levelA story can be written about the worth of humanity in which cloned bodies with copied memories ask themselves pointy...
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Review: MegaDeath by Tory Quinn and Marie Vibbert
A thrilling addition to a subgenre that seems, if you'll pardon the figure of speech, done to deathIn the deadly tournament subgenre, overcrowded with such memorable entries as Death Race, Tron,...
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Microreview [Video Game]: The Last of Us Part I by Naughty Dog
Still the best at what it does.The Last of Us Part I is not a fun video game. It contains heavy themes that are thoroughly explored over its fifteen-hour runtime. Sure you can turn on some modifiers...
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6 books with William Henry Morris
William Henry Morris writes, edits, and writes about SF&F. He writes fiction for the indie, literary Mormon market as William Morris and lives in Minnesota with his wife, daughter, and cat. You can...
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Nanoreviews: Let the Mountains be my Grave, The Book Eaters
Let The Mountains be my Grave by Francesca Tacchi (Neon Hemlock)Let the Mountains be my Grave is a short novella - possibly the shortest so far from Neon Hemlock's novella range - and it spends every...
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Microreview: Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
An eerie collection of poems in the Orkney dialect, musing on themes of home, identity and belonging, against the backdrop of deep space.Just as a bit of context for this review, I listened to the...
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'Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile' is a missed opportunity
This adaptation of an unconventional series of children's books smoothes over the quirks and flattens them under the uniformity of established film tropesAs a rule, book adaptations should be analyzed...
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Microreview [book]: No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
A tightly plotted iteration on the mosaic novel, which grapples powerfully with questions of solidarity and justiceFirst up, if you're in the US (or you get your books from there), both the timing of...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Halloween is behind us, but it is not quite time to get into the holiday spirit. My family reserves that for after Thanksgiving and us comic book fans have a lot to be thankful for this month. I...
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6 Books with Joelle Presby
Joelle Presby is a former U.S. Navy nuclear engineering officer and recovering corporate consultant who grew up in West Africa. Her first reader husband works for NASA, but has yet to build her a space...
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Interview: Marshall Ryan Maresca, Author of the Maradaine Saga
Marshall Ryan Maresca is a fantasy and science-fiction writer, author of the Maradaine Saga: Four braided series set amid the bustling streets and crime-ridden districts of the exotic city called...
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Microreview [book]: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
A fun and food-focused comfort read.As Roseanna mentioned last month, cosy fantasy is becoming increasingly prevalent. Legends and Lattes is a perfect demonstration of the subgenre's popularity. First...
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Review: The Peacekeeper by B. L. Blanchard
This glimpse of another possible world proposes a completely different notion of justiceIntroducing a speculative setting through a cop's perspective is a time-honored tradition. It's a practical...
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