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Dark Theory by Wick Welker

By John Folk-Williams

Dark Theory by Wick Welker

Wick Welker’s Dark Theory (the first volume of a series called Dark Law) poses basic questions about what it means to be human in a far-future poisoned world. The story begins in a junkyard where people have to scavenge the means of survival. Two young women, the generous-hearted Lucindi and the hardened and cynical Miree, […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Reviews Tagged With: apocalypse, artificial intelligence, city, consciousness, cyborg, friendship, identity, memory, power, robots, ruined earth

The Outside by Ada Hoffman – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

The Outside by Ada Hoffman

There is so much to love, so much to be challenged by in Ada Hoffman’s The Outside. It’s one of those books I immediately set about re-reading because the characters and what happens to them are so compelling. One of those characters, as I think about it, is the Outside itself, that mysterious level of […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: artificial intelligence, autism, consciousness, obsession, religion, sapphic love, shape-shifting, technology

Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Destroyer of Light

Jennifer Marie Brissett has written a beautifully crafted time puzzle mystery wrapped in a new version of the Greek myth of Demeter’s search for her daughter Persephone (or Koré) in the underworld. Destroyer of Light gradually builds its world as told from multiple points of view at different times. The pieces of this puzzle deftly […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: alien life forms, altered minds, city, identity, myth, racism, religion, time

The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

The Annual Migration of Clouds

Premee Mohamed’s beautiful novella (her third this year)The Annual Migration of Clouds, while set in a dystopian future, is more about a young woman saying goodby and leaving home, like birds leaving the nest, seasons turning, the movement of natural forces. It focuses on hard-won hope in the face of uncertainty rather than the devastating […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Reviews Tagged With: agency, community, disease, dystopia, family, freedom, Premee Mohammed, symbionts

These Lifeless Things by Premee Mohamed – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

These Lifeless Things by Premee Mohamed

There is a moment in Premee Mohamed’s brilliant novella, These Lifeless Things, when the narrator, an anthropologist exploring a post-apocalyptic landscape, says in frustration with her “hard” science colleagues that there is more than one way of knowing. That gets to the heart of this absorbing narrative. She has found a treasure in the ruins […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Reviews Tagged With: alien life forms, city, human survival, knowledge, narrative, post-apocalytic, science

Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Far from the Light of Heaven

In Far from the Light of Heaven, Tade Thompson, author of the Wormwood Trilogy, constructs a fine murder mystery on board a colony space ship in methodical detail. Step by step he introduces characters and settings, with just enough detail to bring each person to life and give each of their worlds its full reality. […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Afrofuturist, alien life forms, artificial intelligence, colonialism, colony ship, murder mystery, robots, spaceships, Tade Thompson

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