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Northwest Smith Stories by C. L. Moore

By John Folk-Williams

Northwest Smith by C. L. Moore

Getting to the end of Vintage SciFi Month, I’m back to the 1930s again with the amazing Northwest Smith Stories by C. L. Moore. Lurid and pulpy though they are, well matching the Weird Tales cover art of Margaret Brundage, each story is a tour de force of riveting intensity. But be prepared. Lurid they […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: C.L. Moore, consciousness, Mars, mind, Northwest Smith, pulp fiction, Siren, supernatural, trance, transhuman, vampire, Venus

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

By John Folk-Williams

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

Continuing on my list for Vintage Science Fiction Month, I read Theodore Sturgeon’s 1953 novel, More Than Human. This was my introduction to Sturgeon’s work, and I’m in awe of his accomplishment. From the beginning, it’s clear you’re in the hands of a master. Forget genre, this is just great fiction writing. Aside from a […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: conscience, gestalt, mind, morality, neurodiversity, people of color, psychic powers, psychotherapy, telepathy, Theodore Sturgeon

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin – Vintage Science Fiction Month

By John Folk-Williams

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula KM. Le Guin

I’m starting off my Vintage Science Fiction Month with Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven (1971). It is one of the most thrilling books I’ve read but also one of the most philosophical and poetic. It achieves an amazing balance in the confrontation between two opposing characters: George Orr, whose “effective” dreams change […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: being, cataclysm, climate change, dreams, mind, The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin

SciFiMonth: Colonizing the Mind in Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Insurrection

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

With #SciFiMonth getting underway, and a certain election holding our fates in the balance, my reading has turned to more political scifi themes, or maybe I’m just more attuned than ever to that dimension of so many recent books. I’m in the midst of Tade Thompson’s Wormwood trilogy and find it more engrossing with every […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: alien minds, colonialism, memory, mind, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, Wormwood

Pushing the Boundaries of Mind: Science Books for SFF Readers – 3

By John Folk-Williams

Neuroscience - boundaries of mind

One of the reasons I’m drawn to science fiction is to see how writers explore boundaries of mind and consciousness. I mean not just the sort of psychic powers that were popular to write about 40 or 50 years ago (or superheroes today) but testing the limits of human consciousness. While sff fiction uses standard […]

Filed Under: Science Books for SFF Readers Tagged With: artificial intelligence, brain, consciousness, memory, mind, neuroscience, psychedelics, science fiction movies

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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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Beautiful essay by Aiden Moher: "fantastic adventures become lenses through which we can learn lessons of humility, strength, passion, and love." Becoming Gandalf by @adribbleofink http://astrolabe.aidanmoher.com/issues/becoming-gandalf-548489 via @revue

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Reading LeGuin quote "We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality.” Becoming Gandalf by @adribbleofink http://astrolabe.aidanmoher.com/issues/becoming-gandalf-548489 via @revue

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4 of 5 stars to Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3866979013

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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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