Beyond a Book Review: Finding comfort in the dystopian present of Parable of the Sower
This speculative novel explores an alternate future beginning with the election of a new president in 2024.
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Beyond a Book Review: Planning for what’s real in Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield's novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, is a shorter read that stays with you.
Beyond a Book Review: Reality as horror in Out There Screaming
Out There Screaming is a thoughtful collection of psychological horror and speculative fiction that examines the expectations of the world on Black bodies.
Beyond a Book Review: Risking it all in Fault
Who or what could make you risk it all?
Beyond a book review: Writing other languages in Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American writer and author of Vampires of El Norte, a historical fantasy with a speculative take on vampires.
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Beyond a Book Review: The uncertain futures of How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go In the Dark, is an exploration of hope when humanity uncovers an ancient virus that threatens its existence.
Beyond a Book Review: Sentences as paragraphs in The Last White Man
This novel offers an important perspective on identity and privilege as well as an artful structural choice by the author.
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Beyond a Book Review: Alternate Futures in Womb City
A look at a genre-bending, Afrofuturist, speculative novel that grapples with gender, the ethics of AI, and the question of whether balance and hope are possible.
Beyond a Book Review: Beginning at the End in Tomb Sweeping
Tomb Sweeping is a collection of 15 character-driven short stories about Chinese or Chinese-American characters written by Alexandra Chang.
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Beyond a Book Review: The "What if?" of The Deep Sky
The future Yume Kitasei imagined for us is one that mirrors our present when it comes to diversity.