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The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar

By John Folk-Williams

The Circumference of the World

The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar is even grander in scope than its title at first suggests. Like many Tidhar novels, it is uniquely brilliant, but this one draws together in its luminous writing many perspectives that take some time to sort out. There is a young woman from Vanuatu, a mathematician in […]

Filed Under: SciFi Mystery-Thriller Tagged With: alien life forms, imagination, Lavie Tidhar, religion, seeing and unseeing, universe

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi – #WyrdandWonder

By John Folk-Williams

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

In Wole Talabi’s exciting fantasy adventure, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, the spirit world has fallen on hard times. With dwindling followers to make faith offerings, the companies of the gods have to make do with diminished income, and their powers are not quite what they used to be. Shigidi is an ex-god […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: Afrofuturist, gods, heist, imagination, magic, sexuality, spirits, transformation, Wole Talabi

Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny – #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

I had intended to write about a new science fiction novel this week, but that turned out to be a disappointment. So I’m eagerly diving into Nine Princes in Amber, the first book in Roger Zelazny‘s epic 10 volume fantasy series, The Chronicles of Amber. This rounds out my contribution to the great not-a-challenge of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: battle strategy, epic fantasy, family, imagination, memory, multiple worlds, power, Roger Zelazny, time travel

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin – A Review for #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Cities of science fiction - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We was the greatest science fiction novel that had yet been written. I’m not as well-read as she was, but We, so influential on later books like Brave New World and 1984, is definitely the greatest one in my experience. From the beginning, its narrator, known like […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: 1984, dystopia, freedom, government, imagination, mathematics, rebellion, We, wildness

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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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