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The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville

By John Folk-Williams

The Last Days of New Paris

I’m a fan of China Miéville‘s fiction, but when I first started The Last Days of New Paris, I was a little baffled. There was a woman riding a velocipede/centaur heading straight into a line of mannequins in a can-can row behind which Nazis were shooting at her, all this in 1950. The prose was […]

Filed Under: Urban Fantasy Tagged With: alternate history, China Miéville, city, life forms, power, surreal landscape

The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

By John Folk-Williams

The Book of Elsewhere

China Miéville last published fiction in 2016, including his fabular novella this census taker, so his collaboration with Keanu Reeves shot to the top of my list, despite my reservations about the source material. The Book of Elsewhere builds on Reeves’ (et al) 12 issue series of the graphic novel, BRZRKR, about an 80,000 year-old […]

Filed Under: SciFi Mystery-Thriller Tagged With: China Miéville, death, human, immortality, Keanu Reeves, life forms, military, rebirth

Otherlands and More Science Books for Science Fiction Readers

By John Folk-Williams

Otherlands - Science Books for SciFi Readers

Here are three excellent books about science that I’ve found helpful for updating ideas about the origins of life, the nature of the mind and the vanished worlds of extinct creatures and environments that preceded our present precarious moment. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday is one of the most extraordinary […]

Filed Under: Science and Related Books for SFF Readers Tagged With: alternate worlds, brain, cognition, evolution, genetic change, human survival, life forms, navigation, species, subminds

Signs of Life – Science Books for SFF Readers

By John Folk-Williams

Signs of Life Sirens of Mars

Here are two books in this ongoing series of posts on science books for SFF readers that explore basic signs of life, one at the cellular level here on Earth, the other at the molecular level on Mars. The Sirens of Mars The Sirens of Mars by Sarah Stewart Johnson is an exciting record of […]

Filed Under: Science and Related Books for SFF Readers Tagged With: brain, cells, communication, Jon Lieff, life forms, Mars, microbes, Sarah Stewart Johnson, space exploration

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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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