by Isha Karki | Sep 10, 2018 | Articles, Reviews
‘When we shed the disguises that are Georgia and Eliza, and then the skins that are Lola and Tallulah, we are monsters. Fabulous beasts.’ (‘Fabulous Beasts’, 283) All The Fabulous Beasts, published by Undertow Publications (2018), is the much-anticipated debut short...
by Jerry Jose | Jun 17, 2018 | Reviews
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...
by Alison Akiko McBain | Sep 19, 2017 | Reviews
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...
by Isha Karki | Sep 19, 2017 | Reviews
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...
by Aditya Singh | Sep 19, 2017 | Reviews
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...
by Mahvesh Murad | Sep 19, 2017 | Reviews
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...
