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9 Favorite Science Fiction Novels of 2022

By John Folk-Williams

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

End-of-year time seems to slow down a bit from rest-of-the-year time, and that enforced (relative) rest gives me a break to look back for my favorite science fiction novels of 2022. I have to say that the current period, imho, eclipses past golden ages of SFF and redefines standards in a fundamental way. There is […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Aimee Pokwatka, Alastair Reynolds, Gigi Ganguly, Lavie Tidhar, Linda Nagata, Maurice Broaddus, Olga Ravn, Tochi Onyebuchi

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

Review: Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

By John Folk-Williams

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi may be a compact novella but its powerful prose tears through the mind and heart like a sustained trumpet call of pain, anger and a kind of hope. The story can be called a fantasy, with siblings Kev and Ella, especially Ella, endowed with psychic powers that can manifest in […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: family, fantasy, people of color, psychic powers, racism, Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi

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