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Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

By John Folk-Williams

Bliss Montage

One of the things that makes Ling Ma’s stories in Bliss Montage so extraordinary is her ability to blend keen perceptions of human relationships with fantasy elements that somehow make the fantastic an intimate part of ordinary life. There is the house in “LA” the narrator shares with a hundred ex-boyfriends, the pickup date in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Short Fiction Tagged With: fantasy, identity, Ling Ma, love, memory, rebirth, relationships, self-worth

Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi

Just as I was wending my way through various fantasy worlds, Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi slammed me back into a near future that is just a little bit removed from the ugly realities of today. Onyebuchi’s novella Riot Baby may have been a great outcry of pain, told in powerful prose, but Goliath is a […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: city, community, people of color, post-apocalytic, race, radiation poisoning, relationships, segregated society, space colonies

Finna and Defekt: Books 1 and 2 of Nino Cipri’s LitenVerse

By John Folk-Williams

Defekt by Nino Cipri

I wasn’t prepared for Finna and Defekt, the two novellas so far comprising Nino Cipri’s LitenVerse. It’s hard to find stories that effectively satirize consumer capitalism and combine that with penetrating portraits of relationships, but here they are! These are absorbing and insightful stories skillfully blending emotional realities of dealing with gender, love, and loneliness […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews Tagged With: capitalism, corporate dystopia, multiverse, Nino Cipri, relationships, satire, trans gender

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

Border City: Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

Lavie Tidhar creates a border city, a liminal place in Central Station that captures in great human depth a future world of interwoven nationalities, identities, destinies and lives. The city around Central Station, a vast spaceport in what was once called Israel or Palestine between the Arab and Jewish areas is one of many blended […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: augmented reality, borders, Central Station, city, consciousness, Lavie Tidhar, love, relationships, spaceport, uploaded minds

The Lost Solace Series by Karl Drinkwater: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Lost Solace, the Solace Series by Karl Drinkwater

Karl Drinkwater starts off his Lost Solace series in a daring way. A deserter named Opal has stolen a ship with an experimental AI, which she names Clarissa, and sets off to a location in deep space. There she finds a mystery ship, a luxury liner abandoned and strangely altered. Could it be the one? […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Indie SciFi, Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, artificial intelligence, family, Karl Drinkwater, lost space ships, neutron stars, rebirth, relationships

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