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Linda Nagata’s Pacific Storm: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Pacific Storm by Linda Nagata

I put off reading Linda Nagata’s Pacific Storm for a while because I was so enamored of her far future epics that I wondered about a nearish-future thriller set in Hawai’i awaiting the arrival of a powerful hurricane. Well, once I got into the story, I couldn’t let go. Pacific Storm has that feel-it-in-yours-bones tension […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Reviews Tagged With: China, climate change, future history, government intrigue, Linda Nagata, politics, surveillance society, thriller

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

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin – Vintage Science Fiction Month

By John Folk-Williams

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula KM. Le Guin

I’m starting off my Vintage Science Fiction Month with Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven (1971). It is one of the most thrilling books I’ve read but also one of the most philosophical and poetic. It achieves an amazing balance in the confrontation between two opposing characters: George Orr, whose “effective” dreams change […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: being, cataclysm, climate change, dreams, mind, The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin

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Beautiful essay by Aiden Moher: "fantastic adventures become lenses through which we can learn lessons of humility, strength, passion, and love." Becoming Gandalf by @adribbleofink http://astrolabe.aidanmoher.com/issues/becoming-gandalf-548489 via @revue

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Reading LeGuin quote "We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality.” Becoming Gandalf by @adribbleofink http://astrolabe.aidanmoher.com/issues/becoming-gandalf-548489 via @revue

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4 of 5 stars to Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3866979013

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"This is an excellent story, despite a few rough edges, that pulled me in more deeply, the more it upset my initial expectations of how epic fantasies unfold." Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa https://www.scifimind.com/son-of-the-storm-by-suyi-davies-okungbowa/ via @SFMind #sff #scifi #SonoftheStorm

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