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The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

By John Folk-Williams

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Impressed as I was by Simon Jimenez‘ beautiful and moving first novel, The Vanished Birds, I have to say I’m just staggered by his second, The Spear Cuts Through Water. Using the second person, the narrator lures “you” with intensely lyrical but dramatically apt prose into a world between worlds. One of several story tellers […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: dreams, epic fantasy, family, gods, magic, myth, shape-shifting, Simon Jimenez

Slipping by Mohamed Kheir – A Review for #SciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Slipping by Mohamed Kheir

Mohamed Kheir has written in Slipping a brilliant series of stories that drop their characters out of time and space for brief periods and interweave their narratives to challenge the limits of story-telling. The effect is like a folding of reality itself as the terms of their lives change directions in a stray encounter here, […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction in Translation, SciFiMonth, Short Fiction Tagged With: dreams, Egypt, memory, politics, power, reality, singing, story-telling

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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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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