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My Vintage Science Fiction Month Reading List for 2021

By John Folk-Williams

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I’m an enthusiastic follower of the Little Red Reviewer’s Vintage Science Fiction Month Not-a-Challenge, and this year I’ve gotten my act together a lot earlier than last, when I squeaked in at the end of the month with a review of Destination Void. The only rule of Vintage Science Fiction Month is whatever you review […]

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9 Unforgettable SFF Standalone Novels I Read in 2020

By John Folk-Williams

Human connection in Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

I was surprised in looking over all the books I’ve read this year that the great majority of them belonged to series, but several were unforgettable SFF standalone novels. These were not all published in 2020 – in fact most are older, some quite a bit older, but they were new to me in this […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: alien language, city, dystopia, fantastika, human emotion, oppression, transhuman, unforgettable sff standalone novels

Great Series Read Project Update

By John Folk-Williams

Great Series Read Project

The end of the year seems like a good time to update progress on the Great Series Read Project that I joined earlier in 2020. It’s a way to keep me at least a little bit accountable to follow through on reading projects. Following such formidable bloggers as Caitlin, Lisa and imyril, I will soon […]

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Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott

From the moment an enemy fighter squadron breaks out of the sky for a sneak attack on a key industrial park, Kate Elliott’s Unconquerable Sun delivers an intricate yet fast paced adventure like few I’ve ever read. The 20 year-old Princess Sun, heir to Chaonia’s terrifying queen-marshall, Eirene, is put to the test again and […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: alien civilizations, battle strategy, culture, galactic empires, Kate Elliott, religion, space opera

King of the Rising by Kacen Callender: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

King of the Rising by Kacen Callender - Freedom from slavery

Freedom from slavery has a cost, not just in human lives but in the internal torture of mind and morality brought on by lifetimes spent in forced repudiation of one’s language, culture, religion and self-esteem. For an ex-slave to have a position of privilege in the midst of this history of oppression is all the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: colonialism, freedom, Kacen Callender, oppression, power, privilege, slavery

Divergence and Diversity in Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

A lot of the SciFiMonth team have featured Nophek Gloss, and as soon as I got into the book I could see why. This first novel in the Graven Trilogy startles with vivid language born of an imagination that is at once hypersensitive to details of change and alive with synesthetic richness. Essa Hansen tells […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: alien life forms, divergence, diversity, multiple worlds, multiverse, power, privilege, spaceships, trauma

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