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 ›
Book Reviews
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 ›
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.
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 ›
Extraterrestrials by Wade Roush and Season 1 of Space Force
“Where is everybody?” the great Enrico Fermi asked, exquisitely stating the question that has vexed astronomers for centuries. If we are alone in the universe, where are the other civilizations and societies? In this MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series book,… Read More ›
The Warped Lens: A Review of Richard Kadrey’s The Getaway God and episode 1 of HBO’s Watchmen
Sometimes, being late to the party is a good thing. Those who know me know the last few months have been a struggle, and that struggle has created a longing for comfort; to return to familiar places and stories long… Read More ›
Early Reviews are trickling in for WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES
Howdy to all you folks staying safe and social distancing and doing the best you can. The first thing I saw was an advance look at the ALA Booklist review coming out in June. “It’s an entertaining collection featuring a… Read More ›
Paul Jessup’s Short Story Roundup for May 2020
Anyone who knows me knows I love short fiction. I love reading it, I love writing it, it just feels so perfect. Novels have their place, don’t get me wrong, but when it comes to just sitting down and reading… Read More ›
Occult Detective Magazine #6
Sometimes being chased around a graveyard is exactly what you need. Life in lockdown has hit in surprisingly unusual ways for me, affecting what I choose to read and sending life skittering away, the off axis torque of the pandemic… Read More ›
A Journey into Strangeness, DESDEMONA AND THE DEEP by C.S.E. Cooney
The world is three petals of a single flower. On one petal, humans live and work and mine and struggle. In another petal, the dreamy realm of dangerous fae-like gentry lives just under the skin of the world. Beneath that,… Read More ›