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Book Review: A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang
Looking for a fantasy novel with truly fantastic worldbuilding? Find out if Ai Jiang’s A Palace Near the Wind fits the bill!
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Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Nigel Faustino
This is me trying to capture what it feels like to live under systems that incentivize short-term, profit-over-people thinking. Genuinely, if you’re trying to figure out why some aspect of modern life has gotten worse in the past twenty, thirty years, you could probably point to private equity.
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Book Review: Psychopomp by Maria Dong
Arley Sorg digs into Psychopomp by Maria Dong, a new SF work packed with messy characters and great worldbuilding.
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Editorial: April 2025
Be sure to check out the Editorial for a rundown of this month’s content, plus all our news.
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Author Spotlight: Sarah Langan
I think a lot of people live their lives very small. We internalize barriers that don’t exist. I think this is heightened by tech, which would have us sit in chairs all day, reacting to nonsense. The human mind can expend only so much energy, and we sap a lot of it scrolling pointlessly.
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Book Review: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo
Arley Sorg says of this new anthology: “Amplitudes features twenty-two stories by authors who know what they are doing, folks who have something to say.” Sounds like a good read.
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Author Spotlight: Sunwoo Jeong
This was one of those stories where the first sentence, “We called it the monster because we could,” really did come first. I kept turning it in my head, and it sort of acted as a key that opened up the rest of the world to me. The sense of place and setting were also foremost in my mind.
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Book Review: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Are you looking for a vividly imagined world of magic, treachery, heartbreak, and hope? Then Chris Kluwe says The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson is for you—find out why!
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Book Review: The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
If you’re looking for a tough book about a post-collapse society, The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica is that book. But find out what Melissa A. Watkins has to say about the glimmer at hope at the end.
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Author Spotlight: Anya Ow
Buddhism teaches that life is a cycle of suffering and rebirth, and the only way to escape it is to achieve enlightenment. I’ve always found that theme interesting, especially in how it plays into creating Buddhist characters in wuxia/xianxia stories.
