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Book Reviews: December 2017
This month, Amal El-Mohtar reviews the conclusion of Fran Wilde’s Bone Universe trilogy, Horizon. She also takes a look at the new novella The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander.
This month, Amal El-Mohtar reviews the conclusion of Fran Wilde’s Bone Universe trilogy, Horizon. She also takes a look at the new novella The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander.
Molly Tanzer is the British Fantasy and Wonderland Book Award-nominated author of Creatures of Will and Temper, Vermilion, and The Pleasure Merchant. She is also the co-editor of Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader). Her short fiction has appeared in Nightmare, Lightspeed, and She Walks in Shadows, as well as many other locations.
This month, Carrie Vaughn takes a look at Blade Runner 2049.
This month, LaShawn Wanak reviews The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen, The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle, and Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines.
Tade Thompson is the author of the science fiction novel Rosewater, a 2017 John W. Campbell Award finalist and on the Locus 2016 Recommended Reading List, and The Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award-winning novel Making Wolf. His novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne has been optioned for screen adaptation. He also writes short stories, notably “The Apologists,” which was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association award. Born in London to Yoruba parents, he lives and works on the south coast of England, where he battles addictions to books, jazz, and art.
This month, Christopher East turns his pen to some of the new television of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Defenders and Legion.
This month, Christie Yant reviews Kat Howard’s An Unkindness of Magicians and Daryl Gregory’s Spoonbenders.
Theodora Goss’s story “Singing of Mount Abora” won the 2008 World Fantasy Award for short fiction, and her work has also been nominated for many other major awards, including the 2007 Nebula Award for “Pip and the Fairies.” She’s also the author of Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks, which won the 2004 Riesling Award for Best Long Poem, as well as the novel The Thorn and the Blossom, A Two-Sided Love Story, the short story collection In the Forest of Forgetting, and a new novel: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.
This month, reviewer Violet Allen turns his attention to two unusual science fictional couples, examining the pairings in the film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and then in the play Pilgrims.
This month, Amal El-Mohtar takes a look at Theodora Goss’ new novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter and The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne Valente.