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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

By John Folk-Williams

The Stars My Destination

Alfred Bester wrote two important science fiction novels in the 1950s – The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination. While I have some reservations about the first, I have to agree with a couple of generations of great writers that the second is one of the best scifi novels of the 20th century. The […]

Filed Under: SciFi Mystery-Thriller, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: Alfred Bester, corporate dystopia, identity, purpose, spacetime, teleportation, time travel, transformation

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By John Folk-Williams

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s gripping novel Shroud reworks one of the oldest stories in the world of a hero lost in a hostile world and trying to get home. Facing the unknown, those who are cast adrift have to use every resource at their disposal and their own wits and training to survive. Of course, in Tchaikovsky’s […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, alien life forms, communication, consciousness, sentient beings, transformation

She Who Knows and One Way Witch by Nnedi Okorafor #Wyrd&Wonder

By John Folk-Williams

She Who Knows

She Who Knows and One Way Witch are the first two novellas in Nnedi Okorafor’s She Who Knows trilogy. This series, in turn, is part of her larger Africanfuturist epic that reaches back 500 years to The Book of Phoenix. I’ve read three parts of Okorafor’s epic story. Who Fears Death is the story of […]

Filed Under: Secondary World Fantasy, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: Nnedi Okorafor, oppression, power, racism, religion, shapeshifter, spirits, transformation

Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse (Book 3 of Between Earth and Sky)

By John Folk-Williams

Mirrored Heavens

One of the great themes of Rebecca Roanhorse’s impressive third volume of her Between Earth and Sky trilogy is the struggle of humans to use godlike power without being destroyed by it. In Mirrored Heavens, the major characters either reach for such power or have it imposed on them, and all pay a heavy price. […]

Filed Under: Epic Fantasy Tagged With: city, free will, gods, indigenous culture, magic, power, Rebecca Roanhorse, transformation

Makeover World – Part 3

By John Folk-Williams

Makeover World Part 2

Here is the third installment in Makeover World, one of the Stories of Elektra series. Like Time Islands, this is a longer story so I’m publishing it in three parts on three successive days. Makeover World is a standalone but is related by setting, character and theme to the others in this series. Here is […]

Filed Under: Stories of Elektra Tagged With: altered minds, city, Elektra, identity, memory, transformation

Makeover World – Part 2

By John Folk-Williams

Makeover World Part 2

Here is another installment in the Stories of Elektra series. Like Time Islands, this is a longer story so I’m publishing it in three parts on three successive days. Makeover World is a standalone but is related by setting, character and theme to the others in this series. Here is Makeover World – Part 2. […]

Filed Under: Stories of Elektra Tagged With: altered minds, city, Elektra, identity, memory, transformation

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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