Nonfiction
Media Review: April 2019
Reviewer Christopher East unpacks the many layers of Netflix’s Russian Doll.
Reviewer Christopher East unpacks the many layers of Netflix’s Russian Doll.
Reviewer Chris Kluwe takes a look at a trio of novels that explore self-awareness: The Deepest Blue, by Sarah Beth Durst, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World (by C. A. Fletcher) and Max Gladstone’s Empress of Forever.
Sarah Pinsker’s short fiction has won the Nebula and Sturgeon Awards, and she’s been a finalist for the Hugo and numerous other awards. Small Beer Press will publish her first collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, in March 2019, and her first novel, A Song For A New Day, will be published by Berkley in September. She lives in Baltimore with her wife, in a hundred-year-old house.
Carrie Vaughn dives into steampunk to review the film adaptation of Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines.
Reviewer Arley Sorg takes a look at A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine; Ragged Alice, by Gareth Powell; and New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, a new anthology edited by Nisi Shawl.
Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning writer, and the author of the young adult novels Dealing in Dreams, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster on March 5, 2019, and The Education of Margot Sanchez, available now in bookstores everywhere. Her work has appeared in Elle, Nightmare Magazine, Tin House, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, to name a few. She lives in Los Angeles.
How do Netflix’s original films stack up against their television series? Reviewer Christopher East shares some of his favorites from the last year or so.
Lashawn M. Wanak takes a look at a trio of new books: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders, The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie, and The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas.
Henry Lien is a 2012 graduate of Clarion West. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. He is the author of the Peasprout Chen series. Born in Taiwan, Henry currently lives in Hollywood. Hobbies include writing and performing campy science fiction/fantasy anthems, and losing Nebula awards.
This month, Christopher East reviews new SF television shows Maniac and Counterpart.