Around the Web: Reviews and Articles from Recent Weeks
» NY Times, 10 May: Talking to Leigh Bardugo, Fantasy Superstar (audio interview hosted by Gilbert Cruz)
» Esquire, Jonathan Russell Clark, 7 May: Why We Love Time Travel Stories, discussing Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time and others
» NY Times, Amal El-Mohtar, 8 May: The Teenage Witches Are Growing Up, subtitled “New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.”
» NPR, Caitlyn Paxson, 8 May: Magic, secrets, and urban legend: 3 new YA fantasy novels to read this spring by Hafsah Faizal, Ana Ellickson, and Melissa Albert
» NY Times, Gabino Iglesias, 30 Apr: Alien Terrors, Vampire Conspiracies and More in 4 New Horror Books, subtitled “Our columnist reviews this month’s latest scary releases” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, C.J. Tudor, S.A. Barnes, and Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell
» The Atlantic, Annalee Newitz, 28 Apr: How Sci-Fi Inspired Conspiracy Theory, subtitled “It all goes back to one man in the 1950s: a military-intelligence expert in psychological warfare.” (About Cordwainer Smith)
» Big Think, Namir Khaliq, 22 Apr: Does science fiction shape the future?, subtitled “Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.” (N.K. Jemisin, Andy Weir, Lois McMaster Bujold, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, and Charles Stross)
» Boing Boing, Yoy Luadha, 21 Apr: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars — still amazing 30 years later
» Washington Post, Jacob Brogan, 16 Apr: It’s time to read Hao Jingfang’s mind-blowing novels, subtitled “The Chinese science fiction writer’s latest book, ‘Jumpnauts,’ is a wild ride, but her other stories are just as brilliant and zany”
» The Guardian, Lisa Tuttle, 12 Apr: The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup, subtitled “Calypso by Oliver K Langmead; Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell; The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo; The Underhistory by Kaaron Warren; The Universe Delivers the Enemy You Need by Adam Marek”
» Big Think, Bogna Konior, 9 Apr: How the philosophy of sci-fi legend Stanislaw Lem can help us understand AI (Excerpted from Imagining AI Ed. by Stephen Cave & Kanta Dihal)
» Boing Boing, Gareth Branwyn, 7 Apr: Review: Paul Di Filippo trips the multiverse fantastic in “Vangie’s Ghosts”
