What an utter delight it is to pick up an anthology and to like pretty much every story and love a good number of them.
Tag: science fiction
Book Review: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Few things make me as happy as sitting down to write a review of a queer book I genuinely enjoyed and want the whole world to know about.
Book Review: Bolero by Wyatt Kennedy and Luana Vecchio
This is a very personal multiverse story — what if you could go take the place of an alternate version of yourself? How many worlds would you have to travel through to find the one where you could be happy?
Book Review: The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc
As of today I have read 113 books so far this year and it is one of my absolute favorites.
Book Review: Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
I almost chose not to use this for a book bingo square, because I didn’t want to have to figure out how to describe it.
Book Review: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
I think I even purchased Who Fears Death at a Borders, that’s how long I’ve been struggling with this author.
Book Review: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
While some speculative novels choose to thinly veil their messages and hide them behind metaphors, Adjei-Brenyah pulls you in with a concept that seems ripped from the blaxploitation and women in prison film genres, then hits you with real facts every few chapters.
Book Review: Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
Sometimes a novella is just the right length, and sometimes it’s too short. Now you know that if that’s the line I’m opening with, this book was just too short to tell the story it wanted to tell.
Book Review: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu is a science fiction retelling of the story of Aladdin. But it’s also a story about revolution. And a story about personhood. And there’s also a robot fighting tournament.
Book Review: New Suns 2, Edited by Nisi Shawl
New Suns 2 is the follow-up to New Suns, both books being collections of speculative fiction by authors of color.