» NY Times Book Review: Michiko Kakutani reviews Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf
» Also, S. Kirk Walsh reviews Karen Thompson Walker’s The Dreamers
» Time Magazine: How Marlon James Built a New World in His ‘African Game of Thrones‘ ...Read More
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Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds (Orbit 978-0316555708, $15.99, 448pp, trade paperback, January 2019)
A person huddles alone in the wreckage of a spaceship, body glowing with strange patterns of light. And all that the person can think of is revenge on those responsible for the situation.
Sounds familiar, right? Good old Gully Foyle in The Stars My Destination. Well, surprisingly, that’s not the book under discussion today. Instead, we ...Read More
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Arkad’s World by James Cambias (Baen 978-1-4814-8370-4, $24, 304pp, hardcover, January 2019)
One of my all-time favorite SF novels is Earthblood, by Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown. It’s a space operatic quest following the life of a man called Roan, from youth to maturity. He’s the only human, and despised, in a galaxy of oddball aliens, and he’s determined to find the rest of his species on the ...Read More
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The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager 978-0-06-267813-3, $26.99, 640pp, hardcover, January 2019)
Chakraborty’s second novel, a sequel to The City of Brass, which I reviewed on this site, continues to chronicle with grace and elegance the ongoing exploits of Nahri, once an unassuming child of Cairo’s streets, whose true role was proven to be the scion of a race of magical healers. When her mystical powers ...Read More
Read more» LA Times: Jeff VanderMeer reviews Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf
» Michael Berry reviews the same book for San Francisco Chronicle
» Last week Michael Berry reviewed Ben M. Winter’s Golden State
» Washington Post: Charlie Jane Anders explains why Kamala Harris is wrong about science fiction ...Read More
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» NY Times Book Review: Alec Nevala-Lee on How Astounding Saw the Future
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Stephen Cox, Gareth Hanrahan, Mimi Yu, Ivor W Hartmann, David Owen ...Read More
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Yes, I will admit, I would have preferred to see fewer brutal fistfights accompanied by the amplified sound of crunching lettuce and more leisurely attention to the imaginative underwater environments that mostly serve as backdrops for the film’s incessant free-for-falls; and yes, the film would have benefited from some judicious editing to reduce its two-and-a-half hour length to two hours. But overall, Aquaman qualifies as a successful superhero film, persuasively ...Read More
Read more» Time: The 10 Best Fantasy Books of 2018 are by Adeyemi, Kuang, Maas, Miller, Suri, Novik, Bennett, Tolkien, Penelope, and Harris
» Barnes & Noble: Paul Di Filippo on The Future is (Nearly) Now: Science Fiction’s View of 2018, discussing Nick Clark Windo, Ahmed Saadawi, John Scalzi, Chandler Klang Smith, and Gordon Van Gelder
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Whiteley, Cobley, Jemisin, Owen, and Cogman ...Read More
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Since Mary Poppins Returns was one of those rare films falling within my area of expertise that was of interest to my other family members, I watched it in the company of my wife and granddaughter, and I should report that six-year-old Serena Michelle Kong thoroughly enjoyed the film, explaining that she found it just as delightful as its esteemed precursor Mary Poppins (1964). And perhaps, that is the only ...Read More
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