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Going Mad: On Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s “Drinking from Graveyard Wells”
Jenna N. Hanchey reviews Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s “Drinking from Graveyard Wells.”...
Speculative Fiction
Telling an Honest Story: A Conversation with Sammy Harkham
Kevin Koczwara chats with Sammy Harkham about his grindhouse-inspired new graphic novel “Blood of the Virgin,” the burdens of balancing family life with art, and making meaning through storytelling while remaining unpredictable....
The Ghost of America’s Past Haunts Its Present: On Tananarive Due’s “The Reformatory”
Melanie A Marotta reviews Tananarive Due’s “The Reformatory.”...
The Guide to a Game That Doesn’t Exist: On Plastiboo’s “Vermis”
Patrick Fiorilli reviews Plastiboo’s “Vermis,” a strategy guide to a video game that doesn’t exist....
Can We Imagine Better Work? On Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s “Labors of Fear”
Brandon R. Grafius reviews Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s “Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work.”...
Masculine Frailty and Ambition: On Chuck Wendig’s “Black River Orchard”
Melissa Ridley Elmes reviews Chuck Wendig’s “Black River Orchard.”...
Science Fiction Belongs to All of Us: On Joy Sanchez-Taylor’s “Diverse Futures”
Julia Lindsay reviews Joy Sanchez-Taylor’s “Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color.”...
Parenting Is Always a Ghost Story: A Conversation with Yael Goldstein-Love
Claire Jarvis talks with Yael Goldstein-Love about her new novel “The Possibilities.”...
Where Life Is Precious, Life Is Precious. And Surely That’s Not Here: On Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s “Chain-Gang All-Stars”
Salem James Martinez reviews Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s “Chain-Gang All-Stars.”...
The Year’s Best Is Dead, Long Live the Year’s Best: On the 2023 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists
Niall Harrison reviews the 2023 finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award....
Nature’s on Top This Time: On Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World and The Poison Belt”
Sasha Karsavina reviews Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World and The Poison Belt” from the MIT Press Radium Age series....
A Different Bargain with Nature: On Annalee Newitz’s “The Terraformers”
Christian P. Haines reviews "The Terraformers" by Analee Newitz....
Taínofuturism, the Hope for a Better Future: On E. G. Condé’s “Sordidez”
Taryne Jade Taylor reviews E. G. Condé’s “Sordidez.”...
Nothing “Proto” About It: More on MIT Press’s New Radium Age Series
The pleasures of reading the titles from MIT Press’s new Radium Age series, writes historian of science Michael Gordin, lies in the science fiction genre not yet having congealed....
Playing with Nature: On “Tears of the Kingdom” as Ecofiction
Martin Dolan reviews the video game “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” as a work of ecofiction....
Things Will Get Shittier: AI and the Dial of Business Basiness
J. D. Connor ponders how AI is transforming the media landscape, the law, and our lives....
Feeling Solarpunk: On Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series
Kurt David reviews Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot series, “A Prayer for the Crown-Shy” and “A Psalm for the Wild-Built.”...
A Lifetime Drama of Escape: On M. John Harrison’s “Wish I Was Here”
Roger Luckhurst reviews M. John Harrison’s “Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir.”...
Your Genes Aren’t Your Destiny: On Ann Leckie’s “Translation State”
David M. Higgins reviews Ann Leckie’s “Translation State.”...
Oblivion Beckons: On Thomas Ligotti’s “Pictures of Apocalypse”
Greg Cwik reviews “Pictures of Apocalypse” by Thomas Ligotti....
Wolves at the Door: On Lee Mandelo’s “Feed Them Silence”
Sloane Holzer reviews Lee Mandelo’s “Feed Them Silence.”...
Racial Resentment and the Scavenging Beast: On Erin E. Adams’s “Jackal”
Shannon Scott reviews Erin E. Adams’s “Jackal.”...
Out from the Shadow of the Vampire: On Chris McKay’s “Renfield”
Olivia Rutigliano follows the figure of Renfield from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel ‘Dracula’ through various adaptations, culminating in Chris McKay’s 2023 film “Renfield.”...
Magic, Memory, and Myth: On adrienne maree brown’s “Fables and Spells”
Candice Thornton examines the magic, memory, and myth in adrienne maree brown’s “Fables and Spells.”...
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