Category: Reviews

• June 10, 2023

  Review: “The Mimicking of Known Successes” by Malka Older

  Malka Older’s “unlikely utopia” is an enchanting gaspunk mystery romance.
• March 1, 2023

  Review | “Linghun” by Ai Jiang

  Ai Jiang’s Linghun is a horror about the monsters we become when we grieve.
• February 23, 2023

  Review | Voodoonauts Presents: (ReLiving) Mythology, A Collection of Black Magical Stories & Poetry

  “I write to create myself.” Octavia Butler These are the words of the late Octavia Butler, a legend whose creativity and brilliance continue to dazzle our world; a trailblazer who recognized that writing is genesis, and that words are worlds. Pitted against a racist and sexist literary elite, raised in a world where her story…
• January 17, 2023

  Review | “Arboreality” by Rebecca Campbell

  “When they used the spotty satellite link at the library to hear the news, he saw bits of the other world, cities and crowds and concerts and coffee and a new Mars mission, somewhere far away from this rainy corner of nowhere, where his only future was in undoing what had been done by generations…
• January 9, 2023

  Review| “The Impossible Resurrection of Grief” by Octavia Cade

  We learn to protect ourselves in the ugliest of ways Octavia Cade, p. 21 Octavia Cade’s haunting novella, explores this question in a climate-ravaged world where “extinction is a familiar odour” (22). In less than a hundred pages, Impossible Resurrection of Grief, plunges us deep into “The Grief”, a mental syndrome spurred by climate trauma and…