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New Adventures in Space Opera edited by Jonathan Strahan : Review by Gary K. Wolfe

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New Adventures in Space Opera, Jonathan Stra­han, ed. (Tachyon 978-1-61696-420-7, $18.95, 336pp, tp) August 2024.

Dating back more than 80 years, space opera is almost certainly the longest-running term in con­tinuous use for a particular kind of SF – though we’ll probably never finish arguing over whether it’s a mode, a subgenre, a theme, or (in the eyes of some) a mistake. In 2003, Locus ran a special issue ...Read More

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Sinophagia edited by Xueting C. Ni: Review by Eugen M. Bacon

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Sinophagia, Xueting C. Ni, ed. (Solaris 978-1-83786-117-0, $16.99, 496pp, tp) September 2024.

Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror is a carefully curated anthology of contemporary Chinese horror. It’s a cultural fest that arrives with triggers warnings of corpses, childhood trauma, self-harm, torture, graphic violence, domestic violence, strangulation and, strangely, coercion/gaslighting – not commonly associated with hor­ror, but typical of psychological abuse.

Translated and edited by Xueting C. Ni, Sino­phagia: A ...Read More

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Lightspeed, Worlds of Possibility and Reactor: Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur

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Lightspeed 6/24 Worlds of Possibility 6/24 Reactor 6/5/24

Lightspeed ushers in June with Oyedotun Damilola Muees’s “Warning Notes from an An­nihilator Machine”, which is framed as a series of messages from said Annihilator Machine to Tijani Damilare (known online as Teejay_009) concerning the approved destruction of Earth. Despite the dire message, ANM-722 actually wants to help Tijani, providing information that might help avoid the approaching mechanical apocalypse at ...Read More

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Clarkesworld: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise

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Clarkesworld 6/24

“Twenty-Four Hours” by H.H. Pak starts off the June issue of Clarkesworld on a high note. The story is beautiful and heartbreaking as a mother spends a final twenty-four hours with a programmed version of her recently deceased daughter in an effort to gain closure. The story does a wonderful job of portraying grief in its various stages and capturing the feeling of wanting to spend just a ...Read More

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