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Ethera Grave by Essa Hansen (Part 3 of The Graven Trilogy)

By John Folk-Williams

Ethera Grave by Essa Hansen

Essa Hansen’s Ethera Grave may be the conclusion of her Graven trilogy (following Nophek Gloss and Azura Ghost), but it does far more than bring to an exciting and powerful conclusion a complex story. The novel expands its multiverse in dazzling ways and probes numerous questions of moral choice, diversity, transformation, time, the power of […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Space Opera Tagged With: alien life forms, consciousness, diversity, Essa Hansen, family, multiverse, time, transcendence, transformation

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By John Folk-Williams

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Welcome to the end of time, says the amusingly ruthless narrator of One Day All This Will Be Yours, the brilliant 2021 novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Of course, if you were hearing this greeting in person, you wouldn’t have long to live because this sole inhabitant of the end of days and choke-point for time […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, alternate history, causality, future, time, time travel, utopia, war, world collapse

One Arm Shorter Than The Other by Gigi Ganguly

By John Folk-Williams

One Arm Shorter Than The Other by Gigi Ganguly

Gigi Ganguly’s One Arm Shorter Than The Other begins quietly enough in 1986 as a grandfather, Maurice, a resident of Delhi, like all the characters of this beautiful debut novella, wanders in the past of his memory. That habit worries his son James, who thinks dwelling in memories is unhealthy. James feels that his father […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, International Speculative Fiction Tagged With: androids, family, Gigi Ganguly, hopeful future, memory, South Asian fiction, time, time travel

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

By John Folk-Williams

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds is a masterful surprise in this author’s work, and I found myself reading it straight through. Instead of opening in one of Reynolds’ future worlds, the action starts on a sailing vessel, the Demeter, in a stormy sea off the coast of Norway in either the late 18th or early 19th […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFi Mystery-Thriller Tagged With: Alastair Reynolds, artificial intelligence, human emotion, memory, sentient beings, ships, technology, time

Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Destroyer of Light

Jennifer Marie Brissett has written a beautifully crafted time puzzle mystery wrapped in a new version of the Greek myth of Demeter’s search for her daughter Persephone (or Koré) in the underworld. Destroyer of Light gradually builds its world as told from multiple points of view at different times. The pieces of this puzzle deftly […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: alien life forms, altered minds, city, identity, myth, racism, religion, time

The Pastel City, a Novel of Viriconium by M. John Harrison – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

A Storm of Wings Viriconium

The Pastel City (1971) is the first story by M. John Harrison in his Viriconium fantasy sequence. This short novel drew me in immediately with its luminous prose and its ability to depict a world in ruins and a world of hope with just a few brilliant visual strokes. Though it begins with a prologue […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: alien minds, dead civilization, empire, M. John Harrison, power, reality, ruined earth, time, Viriconium

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