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May 19, 20231 min read

In the Watchful City: Fragmentary Beauty

This novella details an exchange of stories investigating colonization, freedom of migration, surveillance, human agency, and...

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Apr 28, 20231 min read

Starless and Bible Black: A Horror Extravaganza

From creeping dread to psychological horror to outright terror, Susan York’s short story collection has you covered. The range of the...

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Apr 7, 20232 min read

FINNA: Multiversal Traveling With Your Ex

The way many spec fiction authors write, this novella could easily have been a four-hundred page tome that opens dozens of subplots and...

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Mar 17, 20232 min read

Hell Followed With Us: Beautifully Gruesome

The gore! Lord Jesus, the gore! This is a post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy story about a plague that induces horrific body transformations on...

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Mar 3, 20231 min read

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Multiverse-hopping mayhem, riotous comedy, inventive action; Everything Everywhere All At Once may not be a film for everyone, but for...

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Jun 25, 20212 min read

Fringe: A Show Worth Observing

Fringe is a police procedural where the crisis-of-the-episode is always a sci-fi mystery. A murderer turns out to be a man-porcupine...

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Jun 11, 20211 min read

Tales From the Loop

Episodes of Loop are slow, contemplative works of irony that share a continuity but no real overarching story. As such, you could...

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May 28, 20211 min read

Lovecraft Country (Season 1--of hopefully many)

Immaculate in both its conception and execution, Lovecraft Country pairs captivating spectacle with thematic depth. At its heart, the...

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Apr 16, 20213 min read

Dhalgren: the Poem For Which You Had To Be There

abrasions through which blood slowly wept. Days or years, seconds or months: the gouges did not go away. Oozing and clotting and cracking...

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Mar 26, 20211 min read

Mandela Effect: Dry Scifi

Like both the Mandela Effect and simulation theory which both factor into its premise, rarely compelling in its concept once you get into...

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Oct 13, 20202 min read

Windhaven: I Do Not Want a Pair of Wings

Windhaven is a fix-up novel co-written by George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle. While both are authors with respectable catalogues, I’m not...

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Sep 20, 20202 min read

The Ginger Star: A Square-Jawed Dream

Are you the type to grab a random book off the shelf of a used bookstore and impulse buy it based on how much you love the front cover? I...

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Aug 23, 20202 min read

Axiom’s End: I’ve Already Forgotten What the Axiom Is

Aliens. Disintegration. Explosions. Mind control. Government conspiracies. What more could you want, you greedy bastards? And yet,...

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Jul 29, 20202 min read

Chthon, A Thoroughly Unpleasant Read

I found Chthon in a used bookstore and impulse bought it because I loved the name and the back-cover blurb. It then sat on my shelf for...

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