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Book Reviews: March 2018
This month, Arley Sorg reviews Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, by Kelly Robson, and Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, by Vandana Singh.
This month, Arley Sorg reviews Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, by Kelly Robson, and Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, by Vandana Singh.
Our ace team of reviewers share their thoughts on the newest installation of the Marvel Universe: Black Panther.
Carmen Maria Machado holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently the artist in residence at the University of Pennsylvania. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Years Best Weird Fiction, and Best Women’s Erotica. Her debut book is a short story collection called Her Body and Other Parties.
Carrie Vaughn reviews The Shape of Water, The Man Who Invented Christmas, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
This month, LaShawn M. Wanak reviews the short story collection Starlings by Jo Walton, the novella collection The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell, and the novel The Fairies of Sadieville by Alex Bledsoe.
Fonda Lee is the award-winning author of the YA science fiction novels Zeroboxer and Exo. Born and raised in Canada, Lee is a black belt martial artist, a former corporate strategist, and action movie aficionado who now lives in Portland, Oregon with her family. Jade City is her adult debut.
Reviewer Christopher East digs into comedies with a fantastical bent: Netflix’s BoJack Horseman and NBC’s The Good Place.
This month Christie Yant reviews new novellas from Tor.com, including Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire, Mandelbrot the Magnificent, by Liz Ziemskaand, and The Murders of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson.
Louise Erdrich is the author of sixteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, short stories, and a memoir. Her previous novel, LaRose, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Minnesota.
This month, Carrie Vaughn takes a critical look at Geostorm and the very idea of climate catastrophe as entertainment