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People of Light 2

By John Folk-Williams

People of Light

After four years and all those immunizations, I finally came down with covid. So I’ve been out of commission for a couple of weeks and just now am regaining my ability to think, read and write.It will take me a while to get back to book reviewing, but in the meantime I’ll be posting here […]

Filed Under: Stories of Elektra Tagged With: alien life forms, consciousness, Elektra, extraterrestrial intelligence, mind, symbionts

People of Light 1

By John Folk-Williams

People of Light

People of Light 1 is a first glimpse into a world called Elektra, settled by humans in the past two hundred years, a past, of course, far in our future. This begins a series of interconnected stories that will appear here in draft form and will ultimately be published as a single book. 1.K’Lin picked […]

Filed Under: Stories of Elektra Tagged With: alien life forms, consciousness, Elektra, extraterrestrial intelligence, mind, symbionts

The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

The Annual Migration of Clouds

Premee Mohamed’s beautiful novella (her third this year)The Annual Migration of Clouds, while set in a dystopian future, is more about a young woman saying goodby and leaving home, like birds leaving the nest, seasons turning, the movement of natural forces. It focuses on hard-won hope in the face of uncertainty rather than the devastating […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Reviews Tagged With: agency, community, disease, dystopia, family, freedom, Premee Mohammed, symbionts

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Shards of Earth

Adrian Tchaikovsky has an immense imagination, and the scope of Shards of Earth gives it vast space. Literally vast since the novel and its strange crew of salvagers moves from one planetary system to another through the terrifying bent space-time depths known as unspace in what seem to be moments. But those moments are pure […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Space Opera, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: alien life forms, altered minds, consciousness, family, galactic empires, symbionts

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