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Eco-Speculation #3: Animals Become Us
In the second half of some musings on nonhumans in speculative literature, I’m switching from the traditional anthropomorphized version—such as Redwall and Narnia—to different portrayals, particularly...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Pick of the Week:Cold Spots #2 - The latest issue in this horror offering from Cullen Bunn and Mark Torres gave me chills. Sorry about that, but what started as a creepy story with people frozen and...
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Six Books with Lauren Teffeau
Lauren C. Teffeau was born and raised on the East Coast, educated in the South, and employed in the Midwest. Lauren now lives and dreams in the Southwest. When she was younger, she poked around in the...
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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 forthcoming books we find notable, interesting, and intriguing. It gives us the opportunity to...
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Vintage Review: Crown of Stars Series by Kate Elliott
Adventures in Medieval Space and TimeI started on Kate Elliott's seven book Crown of Stars series in summer last year, for a couple of reasons: I (partly) wanted to read more Kate Elliott, having only...
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Microreview [Book]: Lovecraft Country, by Matt Ruff
"Stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn't make them perfect,"The Safe Negro Travel Guide publisher George Berry tells his nephew Atticus Turner in the beginning of Matt Ruff's Lovecraft...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Pick of the Week:Paper Girls #25 - This was one helluva an issue and one that is going to make it a lot harder to wait until March of 2019 to see what happens to the girls. There is a lot to process as...
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Mircoreview [book]: Ironclads, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ironclads provides a smart, sharp look at warfare in a near future that may not be, but feels like a funhouse mirror of the present that, like all good mirrors, shows us our present.Sergeant Ted Regan...
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Microreview [Book]: The Phoenix Empress by K. Arsenault Rivera
Their Bright Ascendancy continues with a slower volume that focuses on its queer women protagonists to the near-exclusion of everything else.I've been looking forward to The Phoenix Empress, second in...
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Microreview [book]: Infinity's End, by Jonathan Strahan (editor)
Infinity's End is a fitting and excellent way to close the book on a solid anthology series.I asked the writers creating new stories for this book to try to open up the solar system, to look again at...
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Eco-Speculation #4: Interview with Eric Fisher Stone
To wrap up these posts about animals in speculative fiction, I chatted with the poet Eric Fisher Stone, a passionate lover of all living things. PW: Great to have you, Eric. Could you introduce...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Now that we are officially in the Halloween season it is the perfect opportunity to stock up on some spooky comics. There is an amazing horror anthology that just popped up on Kickstarter that I backed...
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6 Books with Rachel Fellman
Rachel Fellman is an archivist in Northern California. She writes sharp, painterly science fiction and fantasy about her various preoccupations: art history, extreme survival, toxic love, queer...
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Nanoreviews: War Cry, Outcasts of Order, The Broken Girls
McClellan, Brian. War Cry [Tor.com Publishing]Brian McClellan is best known for his excellent Powder Mage trilogy, which is a bit of flintlock fantasy / military fantasy. War Cry marks his first time...
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Frankenstein at 200: An Outsider's Love Song
We never forget our first loves, yeah?Sometime in the mid-to-late-1980s, KTXH Channel 20 — the local UHF channel in Houston, Texas — showed 1931's Frankenstein and Dracula. I could not yet have been...
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Microreview [Book]: Temper by Nicky Drayden
Temper soars precariously, like a skyscraper made of playing cards, presenting a fast paced -- if occasionally messy -- reading experience.So, here's a problem that most prolific readers will...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
This is a warning that we are less than 10 days away from Halloween ComicFest! I preordered three packs of the Johnny Boo comic to pass out on Halloween and am looking forward to swinging by my local...
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6 Books with Sabrina Vourvoulias
SABRINA VOURVOULIAS is an award-winning Latina news editor, writer and digital storyteller. Her news stories have been published at The Guardian US, Philly.com, PRI.org, NBC10/Telemundo62, Philadelphia...
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Microreview [book]: The Beautiful Ones, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A novel of manners where the pursuit of wealth and privilege will drive people to true darkness.When I read Mary Robinette Kowal's debut novel Shades of Milk and Honey some eight years ago, the...
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Frankenstein at 200: Society Be Damned
Maybe a decade ago, I worked on the script for a TV movie about Frankenstein's monster that never made it out of development, for a studio that will not be named. The exec we were working with, the...
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