The Homemade Dystopia
The other day I camped with my son at a remote (to me) State Park in the Maine Highlands, and for several hours in the afternoon, it rained. We read inside our tent while peals of lightning were followed by… Read More ›
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Paul Jessup’s July Short Story Roundup!
Oh boy where did the month ago? Is it time for another monthly short story roundup? Well, I guess it is. This month has a been a strange month, for certain, but then again all months have been strange months… Read More ›
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“Am I Sick, or a Saint?” UNDONE refuses to answer its own questions
The beautifully-rendered vision of San Antonio, animated by UNDONE, an Amazon Prime original, is a lush and sweeping and sublime thing, and revels in a kind of ambiguity that is upended by the very work it does creating its own… Read More ›
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BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Good morning, internet! Right now, today, I will be giving away four copies of WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES!Why do you need this anthology in your life? “The Way of the Laser is a delightful compilation of SF… Read More ›
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The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark
Of the things that I celebrate about our future with lots of eBooks is the explosion of eBooks at a wide variety of lengths. Some are very long. I was able to purchase and read the entire Song of Ice… Read More ›
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Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse is the Feel Good Comedy You Need During the Pandemic.
One of the first memes I saw that made me chuckle after quarantine began was a letter board on the side of the road read: I was told there would be zombies. We all expected a boom, but the world… Read More ›
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Space Force is Still Looking for Space Legs
Certain brands of media have not aged well in the era of redcaps and coronavirus and the fracturing of reality, itself, around political ideas. “Parks and Recreation” was a charming little show, that began a bit stumbled and disoriented, but… Read More ›
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Rivers Solomon’s The Deep
This novel’s brilliant premise alone is enough to make it a must read, but I found its poetic language, and fully developed metaphors bordering on allegory, to have a mesmerizing effect as beautiful as a rolling sea.
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On M. John Harrison’s Sunken Lands
I always struggle to think about what to say about books that are The… Books… Of… The… Season! This is no exception. It’s a brilliant and unsettling thing, like holding a book that slowly turns into a silvery fish in… Read More ›
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Julie C. Day Talks about her story “Speculative Execution” in The Way of the Laser
In our continuing series of mini-interviews, we talk with authors who have a story in our forthcoming collection WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES, recently reviewed positively by ALA Booklist! Today, we talk to Julie C. Day, author of “Speculative Execution”. and… Read More ›
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