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One Arm Shorter Than The Other by Gigi Ganguly

By John Folk-Williams

One Arm Shorter Than The Other by Gigi Ganguly

Gigi Ganguly’s One Arm Shorter Than The Other begins quietly enough in 1986 as a grandfather, Maurice, a resident of Delhi, like all the characters of this beautiful debut novella, wanders in the past of his memory. That habit worries his son James, who thinks dwelling in memories is unhealthy. James feels that his father […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, International Speculative Fiction Tagged With: androids, family, Gigi Ganguly, hopeful future, memory, South Asian fiction, time, time travel

A Storm of Wings – A Novel of Viriconium by M. John Harrison

By John Folk-Williams

A Storm of Wings Viriconium

From the beginning of M. John Harrison’s A Storm of Wings (1980), you know you’re entering a shattered world with a diminishing human presence, but it is also a dazzling world captured in densely brilliant and beautiful prose. This second novel of the Viriconium series caught me by surprise. The first, The Pastel City (1971), […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: alien life forms, city, civilization, consciousness, human survival, M. John Harrison, memory, rebirth

Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse

By John Folk-Williams

Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse

Rebecca Roanhorse has created a stark fantasy world in the weird west of her powerful novella, Tread of Angels. From its brilliant opening, as a dark and violent wind blowing off a mountain called Abaddon storms into the grim town of Goetia and slams down Perdition Street into the Eden, its main den of gambling […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: demons, fallen world, identity, inequality, memory, murder mystery, racism, Rebecca Roanhorse

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

By John Folk-Williams

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds is a masterful surprise in this author’s work, and I found myself reading it straight through. Instead of opening in one of Reynolds’ future worlds, the action starts on a sailing vessel, the Demeter, in a stormy sea off the coast of Norway in either the late 18th or early 19th […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Alastair Reynolds, artificial intelligence, human emotion, memory, sentient beings, ships, technology, time

Needle by Linda Nagata (Inverted Frontier Book 3)

By John Folk-Williams

Needle by Linda Nagata (Inverted Frontier Book 3)

Needle is the third book in Linda Nagata’s compelling Inverted Frontier series that began with Edges and continued with Silver. This is an epic story of the search for remnants of human civilizations reaching back from the farthest reach of settlement toward the origin of it all. Urban and the crew of the Dragon encounter […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Space Opera Tagged With: alien minds, consciousness, human survival, Inverted Frontier, Linda Nagata, memory, power

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