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Lining Up My Vintage SciFi Month and the Winter TBR

By John Folk-Williams

Vintage SciFi Month - The Dispossessed

Vintage SciFi Month for 2022 is coming up fast, and I wanted to set out my planned reviews for this event. The great thing about this is its simplicity. You just use the tag #VintageSciFiMonth on Twitter or your blog or Instagram to post anything of interest about science fiction written before your birth year […]

Filed Under: Taking on My SFF TBR, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: Gareth L. Powell, Isaac Asimov, James S.A. Corey, Nnedi Okorafor, Philip K. Dick, Tochi Onyebuchi, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yevgeny Zamyatin

My 10 Favorite SFF Books of 2021

By John Folk-Williams

10 Favorite SFF Books of 2021 Pacific Storm by Linda Nagata

Is it just me or do others also feel that 2021 was an amazing year for great science fiction and fantasy? I don’t do that many list posts, but it’s especially interesting to look back over a year’s reading to put things in perspective. And yes, I do believe this was an incredible year. My […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: Ada Hoffman, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alastair Reynolds, Arkady Martine, Claire North, Lavie Tidhar, Linda Nagata, Nnedi Okorafor, Premee Mohammed, Susanna Clarke

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

From the brilliant opening of Nnedi Okorafor’s Remote Control, when we meet the confident Sankofa, just fourteen, walking a road in rural Ghana (“Small swift steps made with small swift feet”) the hints of her extraordinary power are everywhere. She is a subject of rumor, people hide from her approach, she wears adult clothes though […]

Filed Under: SciFiMonth Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien technology, corporate dystopia, legend, Nnedi Okorafor, power, technology

5 Great Novels in My Lineup for #SciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth 2021

November is here and it’s time for SciFiMonth, that great blog-along managed by Lisa of Dear Geek Place and imyril of There’s Always Room for One More. If you want to sign up, they have set up a master schedule where you can enter whatever you plan to blog or tweet about. Check out Lisa’s […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction in Translation, SciFiMonth Tagged With: Ada Hoffman, Derek Kunsken, Essa Hansen, Mohamed Kheir, Nnedi Okorafor

10 Great SFF Books Coming This Fall

By John Folk-Williams

Here I am only half way through my short summer TBR list, and already I have 10 great SFF books lined up for the late summer and fall. This list includes mostly new volumes of some of the heavy hitter series of the last decade as well as a couple of stand-alones from writers who […]

Filed Under: Secondary World Fantasy, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: Ada Palmer, Alastair Reynolds, Cat Rambo, Charles Stross, Derek Kunsken, Fonda Lee, Iain M. Banks, James S.A. Corey, Naomi Novik, Nnedi Okorafor

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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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