Prepare for a deep dive into the most intimate details of human-alien contact in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy. Step by step she takes you through the initial encounters between a human, Lilith Iyapo, and her Oankali captors (Dawn), the coming of age of a construct resulting from this union (Adulthood Rites) and the reconciliation […]
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Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany: Poet in Dystopia
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany seems to have many detractors as a work of science fiction but I find it a powerful portrait of a fractured mind, of a poet in dystopia, of a city broken the way its main narrator feels he might be breaking. Known mostly as the Kid, because he has forgotten […]
Fiction Reviews
The science fiction reviews on this site are my reflections on stories and novels that have meant a lot to me. In other words, it's personal. In a time when everything gets professionalized (even fandom), I'd like to defend a space for the amateur reader as well as writer. I happen to believe that … Read More about Science Fiction Reviews
Short Fiction
The short fiction pieces that appear from time to time on this blog are parts of a work in progress set in a distant world called Indus. Very much in progress. Your thoughts and reactions will be most welcome as I keep adding people and details to this emerging world. I am a believer in indie … Read More about Short Fiction
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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us … Read More about About
