Membranes” a thematically rich yet short novel by author and literary critic Chi Ta-Wei. It was written in 1995 but it has been translated to…
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Review: Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
“No matter what the lowest-eumelanin people say, Black Lives are Star Stuff and Black Lives Matter, all of them.” I think some people, despite having…
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Cry-4 Eyeball
“Magnetopause in 3, 2, 1….” Koda pulled his visor down. The doctors told him that passing from space into Tacitus’ magnetosphere would be disorienting and, perhaps…
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Review: Walk Through Fire by Yola
British born “Queen of Country Soul”? Why not? “Walk Through Fire” firmly establishes British born vocalist, Yola, as precisely that. My first encounter with…
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The Problem With “bugging in”
First of all, let’s talk about the democratization of, well, everything. Just because we say something is a certain way or…
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“Inter Ice Age 4” by Kobo Abe
I happened upon this title when a friend posted an article on Facebook about literary authors that had made forays into science fiction. I…
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Captives of Flame and Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany
“Captives of the Flame” and “Jewels of Aptor” by Samuel Delaney “Jewels of Aptor” and “Captives of the Flame” by Samuel Delaney …
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Zombies and the Global South
In 1968, George Romero debuted his feature film “Night of the Living Dead” with Judith Odea and Duane Jones. It was “revolutionary” at the time…
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Why you shouldn’t read SF reviews
A couple of things have happened this month in the world of SF, and both of them happened over at Netflix. Disney and Comcast mouthpieces…
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This was supposed to be a review of Batman vs Superman
I recently read an interesting book by Eric Bennett titled “Workshop of Empire” in which he details the connection between the CIA’s Council for…
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