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Best SFF TV Scenes of 2022

By John Folk-Williams

This blog is obviously devoted to reviewing books, for the most part, but after reading imyril’s post on Severance, I starting thinking of the great scenes of SFF TV that I watched this past year. I can’t pretend to any great knowledge of SFF TV shows, but this year forced me to pay attention because […]

Filed Under: Scifi TV/Movies Tagged With: Andor, His Dark Materials, House of the Dragon, Night Sky, Philip Pullman, Severance, The Peripheral, William Gibson

9 Favorite Fantasy Fiction Books I Read in 2022

By John Folk-Williams

Babel An Arcane History

Though I’ve usually thought of myself as a science fiction reader primarily, this year’s favorite fantasy fiction has shown me how diverse and vital this vast category can be. None of the nine books in this list resorts to the tired conventions of Eurocentric medieval-style settings and hero questing. Each one takes a completely original […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF, Secondary World Fantasy Tagged With: Emery Robin, Jadie Jang, Leslye Penelope, Ling Ma, Liz Williams, Nicola Griffith, R.F. Kuang, Simon Jimenez, Tasha Suri

9 Favorite Science Fiction Novels of 2022

By John Folk-Williams

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

End-of-year time seems to slow down a bit from rest-of-the-year time, and that enforced (relative) rest gives me a break to look back for my favorite science fiction novels of 2022. I have to say that the current period, imho, eclipses past golden ages of SFF and redefines standards in a fundamental way. There is […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Aimee Pokwatka, Alastair Reynolds, Gigi Ganguly, Lavie Tidhar, Linda Nagata, Maurice Broaddus, Olga Ravn, Tochi Onyebuchi

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