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Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By John Folk-Williams

Lords of Uncreation

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Lords of Uncreation is the third and final volume of the Final Architecture series, including Shards of Earth and Eyes of the Void. What draws me most to this series are the amazing descriptions of the encounters of the Intermediary Idris Telemmier with the creatures of unspace, a level of space beneath the […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, alien life forms, altered minds, multiple worlds, power, spaceships, universe, war

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

Belladonna Nights and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds

By John Folk-Williams

Belladonna Nights by Alastair Reynolds

Belladonna Nights and Other Stories is a great way to get into Alastair Reynolds’ short fiction. Ever since reading the beautiful “Nightingale” in Galactic North, set in the Revelation Space universe, I’ve been alert to a theme of personal loss and grief caused by separation from a loved one or because of the imminence of […]

Filed Under: Short Fiction Tagged With: Alastair Reynolds, alien life forms, galaxy, grief, loss, Revelation Space, spaceships, war

Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk

By John Folk-Williams

Primeval by Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk’s Primeval and Other Times, finely translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, is a uniquely fantastical search through the multiple worlds and forms of time found in the life of a fictional village in Poland during the 20th century. I’ve never read anything like it. On one level, it depicts the lives of a group of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, International Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: angels, being, multiple worlds, Olga Tokarczuk, Poland, souls, time, twentieth century, war

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

By John Folk-Williams

Frankenstein in Baghdad - SFF in translation

In Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, it takes a neighborhood of strange characters, rather than an over-reaching scientist as with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to create a monster. And it takes a good story, whether or not it is true, just so long as it is believed. There are many stories and levels of truth in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: Baghdad, Frankenstein, justice, Mary Shelley, narrative, story-telling, truth, war

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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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