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In the Watchful City: Fragmentary Beauty
This novella details an exchange of stories investigating colonization, freedom of migration, surveillance, human agency, and...
May 19, 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...
Apr 28, 20231 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...
Apr 7, 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...
Mar 17, 20232 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...
Mar 3, 20231 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...
Jun 25, 20212 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...
Jun 11, 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...
May 28, 20211 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...
Apr 16, 20213 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...
Mar 26, 20211 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...
Oct 13, 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...
Sep 20, 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,...
Aug 23, 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...
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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