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We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed

By John Folk-Williams

We Speak Through the Mountain

We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed is the second part of the story she began a couple of years ago in The Annual Migration of Clouds. It’s another strong novella that continues the story of nineteen year-old Reid, surviving in a post-apocalyptic western Canada. The story picks up directly from where the last […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: colonialism, community, exploitation, family, memory, plague, Premee Mohamed, ruined earth

In the Shadow of the Fall by Tobi Ogundiran

By John Folk-Williams

In the Shadow of the Fall

Tobi Ogundiran, the award winning short fiction author, has produced his debut epic fantasy, the first part of which is the novella, In the Shadow of the Fall. It is a beautifully rendered story about a young acolyte of the orisha whose attempt to commune with the gods triggers a sequence of events that almost […]

Filed Under: Epic Fantasy Tagged With: family, gods, memory, orisha, religion, shapeshifter, song, Tobi Ogundiran

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

By John Folk-Williams

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

Brace yourself for a wild ride through cascading realities, where the dead and living intermingle in daily life, and exploding time scales from Sri Lanka’s present and recent past to the far, far future of an earth boiling under an expanded red sun. This is the world and universe of Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall. It offers […]

Filed Under: International Speculative Fiction, Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: gods, identity, memory, reality, ruined earth, South Asian fiction, transhuman, Vajra Chandrasekera

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