Diverse SFF reviews, pinko politics, personal nonsense.
April was a slow reading month for me. Not only that, it’s been busy—there is a point, I think, at which my brain becomes overwhelmed by important things and starts to deactivate interests and hobbies for more processing power. I think that’s what happened in April. Thing is: that’s not good. My interests and hobbies are…
So at the beginning of 2017, I decided to participate in Book Riot’s Read Harder 2017 challenge. How is it going?
April is very almost over and it’s beyond time for my collection of micro-reviews of all the short fiction I read in March. It was a month of some really stellar fiction, even including—rarely, for cowardly little me—a couple of genuine horror stories! Click on any story in the table of contents to jump right…
EDIT: Okay, so I’m an idiot. I scheduled this post on April 9th, and didn’t actually bother to check if it posted. Apparently, for whatever technical reasons, it didn’t. So here I am, posting it now, shortly before I’m due to post March’s reviews. Nice work, me. Congratulations to me on my first late!post of the…
WINTER TIDE by Ruthanna Emrys Tor.com, 2017 eBook, 368pp Winter Tide is the first book in Ruthanna Emrys’ budding series The Innsmouth Legacy, set in a world in which the facts of the Lovecraft mythos remain the same but the reading is crucially different. The book is preceded by Emrys’ 2014 novelette The Litany of…
THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE AND OTHER STORIES, ed. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin Solaris, 2017 eBook, 246pp The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories is an anthology of short fiction edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin. An editor and critic, Murad is also known for her fantastic weekly interview podcast on Tor.com, Midnight…
It’s somehow March 2017 already—time, as They Might Be Giants so accurately said, is marching on (and now I’m even older). But I just can’t quite let 2016 go until I’ve rounded up my most favourite short fiction published in it. So what follows is my favourite short fiction from 2016, with a link to the reviews…
I saw my first snowdrops of the year this week, on the day I turned 28. I’m fond of February, not only because it’s my birth month, but because it’s caught, suspended, between two seasons: it can be either the coldest month of winter, or it can be the prelude to spring. This year it…
GlitterShip is a regular speculative fiction podcast focusing on LGBTQIA+ fiction run by Keffy R. M. Kehrli. I’ve been into it from the get-go, sitting as it does at the nexus of my intersecting interests in queer culture, SFF, and audio media. In 2017 GlitterShip launches a new format: a quarterly magazine containing the fiction,…
It’s 2017 already, but it’s still dark outside most of the day, and fuck me if it isn’t bloody cold. In this bleak midwinter, I want to take some time to look back at the media I loved best in 2016. Since there’s way too much to choose from, I’ll be looking at my favourite short fiction…