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A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

By John Folk-Williams

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

With a cascade of luminous and psychologically intricate prose, Arkady Martine’s A Desolation Called Peace picks up shortly after the conclusion of A Memory Called Empire. It’s another brilliant book that I find even richer than the first volume of this series on the Teixcalaan Empire and its remote satellite, Lsel Station. The two novels […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: alien minds, Arkady Martine, communication, galactic empires, identity, language, love, society

Communicating Feelings in Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17

By John Folk-Williams

Communicating feelings in Babel-17

I’ve never felt so close to a brilliant mind playing with the possibilities of language and the difficulty of communicating feelings as I have when reading Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17. Of course, this SFF adventure from the early 1960s is all about language, the mysterious one named in its title. It’s up to Rydra Wong, […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: communication, feelings, language, poet, Samel R. Delany, spaceships

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany: Poet in Dystopia

By John Folk-Williams

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany seems to have many detractors as a work of science fiction but I find it a powerful portrait of a fractured mind, of a poet in dystopia, of a city broken the way its main narrator feels he might be breaking. Known mostly as the Kid, because he has forgotten […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: city, Dhalgren, dystopia, language, memory, mental health, poet, reality, Samuel R. Delany, sex

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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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