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A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

By John Folk-Williams

Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

P. Djèlí Clark’s A Master of Djinn returns to the alternate Cairo of 1912 featured in A Dead Djinn in Cairo and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. This time Clark has given us a full-length novel that offers much deeper insight into the richness of this remarkable world. Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi of the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews Tagged With: Cairo, djinn, Egypt, historical fantasy, magic, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk

New Atlantis by Lavie Tidhar: Dystopian Journey to Hope

By John Folk-Williams

New Atlantis by Lavie Tidhar

New Atlantis is a beautiful novella by Lavie Tidhar that makes visual poetry out of the detritus of our own lost civilization in a future earth reshaped by vast climatic changes and disasters. It is the story of a journey by a young Mai, as told to us by her aged self. Like Tidhar’s Central […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews Tagged With: cataclysm, climate change, dystopia, hopeful future, journey, Lavie Tidhar

Parallel Worlds of Blackthorn Winter by Liz Williams

By John Folk-Williams

Blackthorn Winter by Liz Williams

In Liz Williams’ wonderful fantasy, Blackthorn Winter, sequel to Comet Weather, a lot can happen in the blink of an eye. A winter landscape can turn to summer, an ancient ruin can become a mansion full of dinner party guests, an empty auditorium a maze with a charging minotaur. For the four Fallow sisters, as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews Tagged With: Bkackthorn Winter, Comet Weather, ghosts, Liz Williams, magic, multiple worlds, spirits, star beings

The Wall by Gautam Bhatia, Book One of The Chronicles of Sumer

By John Folk-Williams

The Wall, Chronicles of Sumer by Gautam Bhatia

Gautam Bhatia’s The Wall is an intricate and compelling cross between fantasy and fable that strikes at something deep within human nature, a yearning to break through the barriers that hem us in. In the world of The Wall, the barrier is a literal one, vast, black, blocking out every sign of a world beyond. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews Tagged With: city, class structure, fable, fantasy, Gautam Bhatia, poetry, politics, religion, song, The Wall

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey – Vintage Science Fiction Month

By John Folk-Williams

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Every now and then a book surprises me, especially when searching through the often dated fiction for Vintage SciFi Month. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight, first in a mighty line of 23 novels set in the Pern universe, is one of those. It’s a surprise because I’m not a big fan of fantasy, yet I keep finding […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Anne McCaffrey, dragons, Pern, power, psychic powers, relationships, revenge

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

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