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Ringworld by Larry Niven – #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Ringworld by Larry Niven

If you’re new, as I am, to Larry Niven’s Known Space world, you’ll find an astonishing amount of information online about this hugely influential series of novels and short stories. Ringworld (1970) was Niven’s first novel in the sequence. There are articles about all the characters, alien species, technologies and events of Known Space as […]

Filed Under: Space Opera, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: agency, alien life forms, alien technology, city, fallen world, Known Space, Larry Niven, religion, spaceships

Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse

By John Folk-Williams

Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse

Rebecca Roanhorse has created a stark fantasy world in the weird west of her powerful novella, Tread of Angels. From its brilliant opening, as a dark and violent wind blowing off a mountain called Abaddon storms into the grim town of Goetia and slams down Perdition Street into the Eden, its main den of gambling […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: demons, fallen world, identity, inequality, memory, murder mystery, racism, Rebecca Roanhorse

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