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Like the immanently forthcoming Prosper’s Demon, My Beautiful Life is a pure K.J. Parker novella. It’s snarky and cynical, fascinated and repelled by power in equal measure. Bad men doing bad things for arguably…
Read story ↗The Holidays are here, and 2019 is nearly over. You've got that Christmas money from grandma or that gift card from the Secret Santa exchange at work. Maybe you are returning something you truly…
Read story ↗Reviewer Silk Jazmyne gives us her top 5 of this year! Black From The Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction (ed. Stephanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle) - This collection of short stories…
Read story ↗The Wells of Sorcery is the trilogy everybody should be talking about. But the trouble with things published in January is that they’re good for buying with Christmas gift cards, but bad for making…
Read story ↗When it comes to fantasy, it has inevitable hangers-on, specific ideas, certain character archetypes that spring to mind. Our imagination fills up with magic, swords, dragons, and, of course, heroes. The monomyth that won't…
Read story ↗Lillian is wasting away in a dead-end job and marinating in her directionless rage when she receives a letter: will she, a person who has no experience with kids or teaching, come be a…
Read story ↗Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series has been brilliant from start to finish, book to book, and she’s so prolific that I’m running out of ways to encourage people to read it. Would threats work?…
Read story ↗Private investigation isn't an easy job, and no one knows this better than Ivy Gamble. When we meet her in Sarah Gailey's Magic for Liars, her investigations mostly involve cheating spouses. She finally catches a break…
Read story ↗Maybe you’re really feeling the season. Maybe you watched Frozen II and want to keep up the ice vibes. Maybe you’re someplace warm and want the illusion of cold as you swelter. Whatever your…
Read story ↗The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey is my first foray into the genre known as Dieselpunk, a style that combines diesel technology, retro-futuristic technology, and the feeling of uncertainty, paranoia, and hopelessness. This novel…
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