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Book Review: Mindscape by Andrea Hairston
If you’re looking for your next mind-bending SF read, Melissa A. Watkins highly recommends Mindscape by Andrea Hairston.
If you’re looking for your next mind-bending SF read, Melissa A. Watkins highly recommends Mindscape by Andrea Hairston.
I’m always thinking about real-life stereotypes and tropes, and how I can subvert them in the space of fiction. I wanted to write a story where the dad didn’t disappear but perhaps was neglectful of his family in other ways. He gets the milk, but is that the point?
Be sure to check out the editorial for a rundown of this month’s content and for all of John Joseph Adams’s media and book recommendations!
The biggest influence was my own encounters with unhoused children on the streets of Karachi. Either on the way to school myself or coming to and from places in the city. There is no childhood for them, and no organised resource or infrastructure to resort to.
Are you looking for a book packed with intrigue and sisterly shenanigans? If so, Chris Kluwe definitely recommends The Blood Phoenix by Amber Chen.
I think fantasy and science fiction have always been opposed to oppression. There’s always an evil man standing in a tower somewhere, a great all-seeing eye peering out at his domain, and there’s always band of men (or hobbits) rising up to meet him.
Melissa A. Watkins thought the prose in The Memory of the Ogisi by Moses Ose Utomi was some of the best she’s read in recent years. Find out what else she loved about this new book.
We all have a role in this world, but largely our role is not to be the hero. Tomas is a guy who grew up on some little hick planet, dreamed of getting off, and did in fact succeed in escaping.
Looking for your next gritty read? Find out why Arley Sorg thinks When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur ought to be it.
In the Yoruba translation of the Holy Bible, the devil is sometimes called Satani which is just an adjustment of the English word Satan. However, where the English version uses the word “devil” then the Yoruba translation is Éshu.