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Great Series Read Project Update

By John Folk-Williams

Great Series Read Project

The end of the year seems like a good time to update progress on the Great Series Read Project that I joined earlier in 2020. It’s a way to keep me at least a little bit accountable to follow through on reading projects. Following such formidable bloggers as Caitlin, Lisa and imyril, I will soon […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project Tagged With: science fiction series

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott

From the moment an enemy fighter squadron breaks out of the sky for a sneak attack on a key industrial park, Kate Elliott’s Unconquerable Sun delivers an intricate yet fast paced adventure like few I’ve ever read. The 20 year-old Princess Sun, heir to Chaonia’s terrifying queen-marshall, Eirene, is put to the test again and […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: alien civilizations, battle strategy, culture, galactic empires, Kate Elliott, religion, space opera

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

Divergence and Diversity in Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

A lot of the SciFiMonth team have featured Nophek Gloss, and as soon as I got into the book I could see why. This first novel in the Graven Trilogy startles with vivid language born of an imagination that is at once hypersensitive to details of change and alive with synesthetic richness. Essa Hansen tells […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: alien life forms, divergence, diversity, multiple worlds, multiverse, power, privilege, spaceships, trauma

Border City: Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

Lavie Tidhar creates a border city, a liminal place in Central Station that captures in great human depth a future world of interwoven nationalities, identities, destinies and lives. The city around Central Station, a vast spaceport in what was once called Israel or Palestine between the Arab and Jewish areas is one of many blended […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: augmented reality, borders, city, consciousness, love, relationships, spaceport, uploaded minds

City in Time: Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Redemption

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

Tade Thompson begins Rosewater Redemption, the concluding volume of his Wormwood trilogy, with a kind of fugue, an almost musical prelude in which the major characters re-enter the story, each changed by what has gone before. We see Rosewater in all its multiplicity, through the eyes of each character, as a city in time, experienced […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: alien minds, alternative selves, city, consciousness, memory, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, time

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