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The Collected Poems of Bruce Boston: Dark Roads and Brief Encounters With My Third Eye

Published April 11, 2017 By Salik Shah

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,…

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Asian Monsters, Edited by Margrét Helgadóttir

Published April 11, 2017 By Ajapa Sharma

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…

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Landscape Of Dreams: Metronome by Oliver Langmead

Published January 9, 2017 By Aditya Singh

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.…

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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Published January 9, 2017 By Isha Karki

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (2016) opens with editor Ken Liu’s discussion of the limiting nature of comparative categories such as ‘Chinese…

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The East is a Setting: Issues of Place, Theme, and Tone in Ian McDonald’s River of Gods and Beyond

Published January 6, 2017 By Gautam Bhatia

In recent years, India has become a somewhat unlikely site of a particular kind of speculative fiction novel. Mid-2014 saw the publication of Monica Byrne’s…

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