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Servant Mage by Kate Elliott – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Servant Mage by Kate Elliott

In a recent interview at Before We Go Blog, Ken Liu mentions Kate Elliott as one of the very best fantasy writers of today and Servant Mage, this gem of a short novel, reveals Elliott as a master story-teller. Servant Mage tells the story of a young woman raised in servitude and taught to despise […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: class structure, demons, fantasy, mage, magic, power, self-worth, unmasking

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin – A Review for #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

The Dispossessed

For me, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed is a treasure — along with The Left Hand of Darkness and The Lathe of Heaven, I think, her finest work in science fiction. It brings together so many of her themes in a complex story that is beautifully written and deeply engaging. Themes like coming home, […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: anarchism, capitalism, exile, exploitation, language, poverty, rebellion, science, society, Ursula K. Le Guin, utopia, wealth

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov – A Review for #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

The End of Eternity

Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity combines ideas about time travel with a questioning of the direction humanity could or should take over millions of years. However, the big issues about society, the development of humanity and the nature of Eternity are left to the end when a powerful turnabout occurs where expectations and assumptions […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: eternity, future history, genetic change, governing the future, Isaac Asimov, society, time travel

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin – A Review for #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Cities of science fiction - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We was the greatest science fiction novel that had yet been written. I’m not as well-read as she was, but We, so influential on later books like Brave New World and 1984, is definitely the greatest one in my experience. From the beginning, its narrator, known like […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: 1984, dystopia, freedom, government, imagination, mathematics, rebellion, We, wildness

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick – A Review for #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick drew me in with one tightly written, deeply engaging scene after another. And like so many of Dick’s novels, it turns the protagonist’s life upside down and inside out in the first couple of chapters. It’s a must-read for any fan of Dick’s fiction. The […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: dystopia, grief, identity, love, Philip K. Dick, privilege, reality

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