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Monkey Around by Jadie Jang

By John Folk-Williams

Monkey Around by Jadie Jang

Here’s another great novel from 2021 I’m just catching up with. Claire Light, writing as Jadie Jang, has re-envisioned the Monkey King from the Chinese classic, Journey to the West, as Maya MacQueen, a shape-shifter twenty-something woman of the San Francisco Bay Area during the Occupy movement of 2011. Maya, while assuming human form as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: Asian-American, identity, indigenous culture, Jadie Jang, shape-shifting, urban fantasy

Fevered Star and Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

By John Folk-Williams

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

Fevered Star is the second book in Rebecca Roanhorse’s brilliantly imagined series Between Earth and Sky. Picking up directly after the conclusion of Black Sun, Fevered Star pushes its central characters in new directions while building on their gods-driven purposes played out in a richly imagined setting that draws together elements of many pre-Columbian American […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Great Series Read Project Tagged With: avatar, city, gods, human emotion, indigenous culture, power, Rebecca Roanhorse, religion, sacrifice

3 Great Books about Cities for SciFi Readers

By John Folk-Williams

Four Lost Cities - Great Books about Cities

Since I’ve been writing about cities in science fiction recently, I thought it would be helpful to highlight three great books about cities that can give readers a lot of ideas on the growth and transformation of these centers of human life. People have been congregating in cities since they began to trade goods and […]

Filed Under: Science Books for SFF Readers, SFF Cities Tagged With: Annalee Newitz, archeology, city, civilization, indigenous culture, social change, space community, technology, urban planning

A Diné Antihero in the Sixth World Series by Rebecca Roanhorse

By John Folk-Williams

Diné Sixth World of Rebecca Roanhorse Storm of Locusts

Rebecca Roanhorse’s two book series, The Sixth World, is at once a brilliant evocation of the Diné homeland and a strong character study of a young woman who feels stranded between the worlds of human and immortal. She is an antihero at once reveling in and resisting her supernatural powers. Trail of Lightning and Storm […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: apocalypse, Diné, gods, human, immortal, indigenous culture, Rebecca Roanhorse

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