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Five Favorite Fantasy Novels Read This Past Year: Wyrd & Wonder

By John Folk-Williams

Wyrd & Wonder 2022

It’s Wyrd & Wonder time again and, though I’ll have other kinds of posts this month as well, I thought I’d start with this Fantastic Five meme. I’ve read a lot more than five great fantasies since last May, but here are the most recent ones (actually six) that haven’t yet been in any other […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gautam Bhatia, Kate Elliott, Nicola Griffith, Rebecca Roanhorse

My Favorite 2021 Locus Recommendations

By John Folk-Williams

As a fan and amateur writer who doesn’t go to conferences, there are few awards I get to vote for, so I’m happy to see several of my favorites on the Locus 2021 recommendations long list. As a subscriber to this venerable magazine, I can actually participate and sent in my ballot as soon as […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alastair Reynolds, Gautam Bhatia, Lavie Tidhar, Liz Williams, Nnedi Okorafor, P. Djèlí Clark, Premee Mohammed

My 10 Favorite SFF Books of 2021

By John Folk-Williams

10 Favorite SFF Books of 2021 Pacific Storm by Linda Nagata

Is it just me or do others also feel that 2021 was an amazing year for great science fiction and fantasy? I don’t do that many list posts, but it’s especially interesting to look back over a year’s reading to put things in perspective. And yes, I do believe this was an incredible year. My […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: Ada Hoffman, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alastair Reynolds, Arkady Martine, Claire North, Lavie Tidhar, Linda Nagata, Nnedi Okorafor, Premee Mohammed, Susanna Clarke

9 Great Books of SFF in Translation

By John Folk-Williams

Frankenstein in Baghdad - SFF in translation

Anticipating reading resolutions for next year, one is definitely to review more SFF in translation. Over the past couple of years of blogging, I’m appalled to see that I’ve only reviewed nine translated works, though each of these is a masterpiece in its own way. If I were to include all the international SFF I’ve […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: Ahmed Saadawi, Bruno Schulz, Clelia Farris, Dino Buzzati, Francesco Verso, Mohamed Kheir, Olga Tokarczuk, Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli, Stanisław Lem

Six SFF Visions of Governing the Future

By John Folk-Williams

Infomocracy Governing the Future

There have been an abundance of SFF novels depicting dystopian conditions coming in the next century but relatively few that have offered a vision of governing the future. What would it be like to live amid the surviving or transformed structures of a different world? Would ordinary people have any say or freedom? Here are […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: agency, Becky Chambers, Failed State, governing the future, H.G. Wells, Infomocracy, Malka Older, society, William Gibson

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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