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Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

By John Folk-Williams

Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

I like writers who take risks in introducing their heroes. Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa sets this first book of The Nameless Republic series on the continent of Oon and its dominant country called Bassa. But unlike the image of the sleek figure on the cover art, the protagonist appears before us […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews Tagged With: caste, empire, fantasy, identity, magic, power, race

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey – Vintage Science Fiction Month

By John Folk-Williams

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Every now and then a book surprises me, especially when searching through the often dated fiction for Vintage SciFi Month. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight, first in a mighty line of 23 novels set in the Pern universe, is one of those. It’s a surprise because I’m not a big fan of fantasy, yet I keep finding […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Anne McCaffrey, dragons, Pern, power, psychic powers, relationships, revenge

King of the Rising by Kacen Callender: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

King of the Rising by Kacen Callender - Freedom from slavery

Freedom from slavery has a cost, not just in human lives but in the internal torture of mind and morality brought on by lifetimes spent in forced repudiation of one’s language, culture, religion and self-esteem. For an ex-slave to have a position of privilege in the midst of this history of oppression is all the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: colonialism, freedom, Kacen Callender, oppression, power, privilege, slavery

Divergence and Diversity in Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

A lot of the SciFiMonth team have featured Nophek Gloss, and as soon as I got into the book I could see why. This first novel in the Graven Trilogy startles with vivid language born of an imagination that is at once hypersensitive to details of change and alive with synesthetic richness. Essa Hansen tells […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: alien life forms, divergence, diversity, multiple worlds, multiverse, power, privilege, spaceships, trauma

The Dystopian Lawyer Series by Christopher Brown

By John Folk-Williams

Failed State Dystopian Lawyer Book 2

Christopher Brown’s two-book set (Rule of Capture and Failed State) about his hapless yet strangely effective dystopian lawyer, Donnie Kimoe, may come too close to our dystopian present for comfort, but they also shine with ideas about a better way to envision the future. As he put it in a recent essay in Literary Hub: […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: Christopher Brown, dystopia, dystopian lawyer, hopeful future, law, power, ruined earth

Queen of the Conquered: The Inner Violence of Power

By John Folk-Williams

Queen of the Conquered

Kacen Callender’s Queen of the Conquered, the first book in the Islands of Blood and Storm series, is a searching story of slavery, oppression and the inner violence of power. Set in a Caribbean island chain that had been colonized hundreds of years earlier by a light skinned people known as the Fjern, the novel […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews Tagged With: colonialism, oppression, power, rebellion, slavery

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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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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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