Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2026

Maria Judite de Carvalho's AND HOW HAVE YOU BEEN (Tr by Margaret Jull-Costa)

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To read and savor a story a day from And How Have You Been , Two Lines Press' latest and last collection of Margaret Judite de Carvalho...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Ursula Whitcher's NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON

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Sometimes there's a better way to show me the society, the world an author is imagining than via a single piece of narrative fiction. If...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Ann LeBlanc's THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTIES OF CHEESE

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Whomst among us hasn't been here: you're the very best cheesemaker (curd nerd in the parlance) outside of Earth's gravity well, ...
Friday, May 8, 2026

Ernest Hogan's CORTEZ ON JUPITER

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I don't know about you guys, but if we have to have a Palmer Eldritch figure in our damnable future, I would much rather it be a Latinx ...
Friday, December 19, 2025

William T. Vollmann's YOU BRIGHT AND RISEN ANGELS

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Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mite...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Rick Moody's THE FOUR FINGERS OF DEATH

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What happens when a writer with exceedingly literary pretentions wrangles a contract to novelize a B-movie of the kind most of us nowadays c...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Andreas Eschbach's THE CARPET MAKERS (Tr by Doryl Jensen)

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Andreas Eschbach has not been on my radar before now, but I'm determined to make up for all the time I've missed knowing his work, f...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Pip Adam's AUDITION

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I am thinking very hard for a moment but trying not to go quiet like we did the last time we tried to think very hard. One of the sillier, y...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Antoine Volodine's RADIANT TERMINUS (Tr by Jeffrey Zuckerman)

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Recently I indulged in a buddy read with my old pal, the Popqueenie, of one of my favorite Philip K. Dick novels, Dr. Bloodmoney , so that ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2025

D.G. Compton's THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE, aka THE UNSLEEPING EYE

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If there was one thing she hated, it was people who thought and talked of morning but their health. We are reminded of this fact about the h...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Robert L. Forward's DRAGON'S EGG (Narr by Todd McLaren)

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One of the extra and unintended joys of reading vintage/older science fiction (in the case of Dragon's Egg , physicist Robert L. Forward...