The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
In an introduction to the 1976 edition of The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K Le Guin wrote that the genre of science fiction was descriptive, not predictive. A novelist, knowingly or unknowingly, invents elaborate circumstantial lies to describe certain aspects of...Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler is a writer beyond definition, although she examined definitions quite well. The first book of hers that I read was Parable of the Sower, and the experience was electrifying. Never had I read speculative fiction so open about race and boundaries, and...Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti: Home is the eagerly anticipated follow up to Hugo and Nebula-award winning Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. In Binti, Okorafor does a brilliant job of creating a fascinating new universe with its own creatures and conflicts, and establishing a pretty badass lead in the...Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
In his book The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh writes that we’re suffering from a crisis of imagination. In their attachment to the Cartesian worldview that arrogates all intelligence to humans and denies agency to the non-human, artists and writers have failed to...Under the Radar: Sultana’s Dream
There are a few texts that come up again and again in discussions of early feminist utopian fiction — Man’s Rights by Annie Denton Cridge from 1870, Mizora, by Mary E Bradley Lane from 1880-81, Arqtiq by Anna Adolph from 1899 and...“To hold contradictions in balance…”: Tashan Mehta’s The Liar’s Weave
In his Introduction to The Architecture of Knowledge, Michel Foucault wrote of his experience reading Jorge Luis Borges: “…the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought, the thought that bears the stamp...The Collected Poems of Bruce Boston: Dark Roads and Brief Encounters With My Third Eye
Bruce Boston’s poetry is “a cyberglyph of a language / composed of… lightning exclamations” that reveal the ferocity of existence, emotional and literary, under close, (re)invigorating examination. [1] In these two volumes of collected poetry spanning nearly five...Asian Monsters, Edited by Margrét Helgadóttir
Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas began a series of coffee-table books on short stories about monsters from across the world. After traveling to Europe in 2014 and Africa in 2015, Jo Thomas had to step out, and Helgadóttir put forward a wonderful edition on Asian...Landscape Of Dreams: Metronome by Oliver Langmead
Worldbuilding can be a dull affair. An attempt to survey a place that isn’t there can often result in writing that isn’t readable. For M. John Harrison [1], a work of fiction relying on worldbuilding does not invite readers to the text with the idea that reading is a...PURCHASE ISSUE 10
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