Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster 978-1-66802-166-8, 400pp, $29.99, hc) March 2025.
The woman might have been beautiful once. Lips pink and plush, and long blond hair, the kind that shone with each brush. She was falling apart. Her face had been shredded into confetti, held together by one bleary blue eye, while her torso was a smooth bioplastic vest, translucent as a milk carton. Ruijie had tried pressing ...Read More
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The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean 978-1-64524-213-0, 120pp, $45.00, hc) January 2025. Cover by Tom Canty.
A similar question arises for the protagonist of the standalone novella The Orb of Cairado. Like the Cemeteries of Amalo books, it is an offshoot of Addison’s Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-nominated novel The Goblin Emperor (2014) – more directly, perhaps, as their actions kick off from the same event, ...Read More
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In the summer of 2024, Briardene Books published Track Changes, a collection of my reviews. There’s nothing like putting a book like that together, combing your way through nearly 20 years of work, to make you think about the project of canon-building. What books still deserve to be talked about decades after you read them? What books represent shifts in the field, or in literature itself, that you were ...Read More
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The Sentence, Gautam Bhatia (Westland IF 978-9-36045-152-3, ₹599, 396pp, tp) October 2024.
A hundred years ago, the city-state of Peruma emerged from a bloody civil war between its landowning elites and its working classes with a legal compromise. A charter that divided the city into High Town, ruled by the corporate-controlled Council, and Low Town, ruled by the anarchistic Commune. In between are the Guardians, an order of lawyers ...Read More
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The Shutouts, Gabrielle Korn (St. Martin’s 978-1-2503-2348-4, $29.00, 304pp, hc) December 2024.
As climate change has become an ever-growing and more insistent presence in our lives, it has also begun inflecting and informing works of fiction, whose authors imagine how the remainder of the 21st century will play out. Interestingly, it is writers coming from outside the traditional venues of SFF writing and publishing who have most readily embraced this ...Read More
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