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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
FICTION 

A Glorious Romp in Ye Olde Arabian Seas

March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

‘The Adventures Of Amina Al-Sirafi’ by Shannon Chakraborty

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The Terraformers
FICTION 

So Far Away, So Close

January 31, 2023February 2, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, The Terraformers

In Annalee Newitz’s sci-fi novel ‘The Terraformers,’ familiar problems emerge on a distant rock in the far distant future

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Critical Mass
FICTION 

Critical Mess

January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Critical Mass, Daniel Suarez, Delta-v

Provocative science can’t rescue clunky sci-fi novel by Daniel Suarez

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Silverberg
FICTION 

I Remember Aliens

December 6, 2022December 6, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Among Strangers, Robert Silverberg, Tom O'Bedlam

Robert Silverberg’s science fiction, now reissued, didn’t get everything right. But he was on point about how we might react to alien encounters.

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Nubia
FICTION Young Adult 

Mis-Brand Nubia

November 8, 2022November 21, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Clarence A. Haynes, Nubia: The Awakening, Omar Epps

Actor Omar Epps creates a YA Afro-futurist world that’s basically an OK comic book without art

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Across the Sand
FICTION Young Adult 

Like ‘Sand’ Through The Hourglass

October 4, 2022November 21, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Across the Sand, Hugh Howey, Molly Fyde, Sand Chronicles, Wool

Why did it take Hugh Howey so long to write a sequel to ‘Sand’?

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The Book Eaters
FICTION 

A Hot, Fun Gothic Mess

August 2, 2022November 21, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Mary Shelley, Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters, Wuthering Heights

Sunyi Dean’s wild genre mashup, ‘The Book Eaters’

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Venomous Lumpsucker
FICTION 

Land of Extinction

July 13, 2022August 24, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, Ned Beuman, Venomous Lumpsucker

The many delights of Ned Beauman’s ‘Venomous Lumpsucker’

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Book and Film Globe Podcasts 

BFG Podcast Special Edition #062: ‘Edge of Safety’

June 22, 2022August 2, 2022 Dan Friedman 2 Comments Edge of Safety, Neal Pollack

An interview with BFG editor Neal Pollack about his new novel satirizing pandemic policies

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Janelle Monáe's writing
FICTION 

Janelle Monáe’s Writing Is Still Joyously Queer

May 16, 2022August 24, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Eve L. Ewing, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monae, Moonlight, Sheree Renée Thomas, The Memory Librarian, Yohanca Delgado

Grammy-nominated singer and actor turns to Afrocentric sci-fi

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Sea of Tranquility
FICTION 

Sea, I Told You So

April 11, 2022August 24, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel

‘Sea of Tranquility’, Emily St. John Mandel’s achingly personal novel about the pandemic

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Dick Awards
FICTION 

A Sure Bet for This Year’s Philip K. Dick Awards

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Bug, Dead Space, Defekt, Far From the Light of Heaven, Giacomo Sartori, Jason Sanford, Kali Wallace, Lavie Tidier, Nino Capri, Philip K. Dick Awards, Plague Birds, Take Thompson, The Escapement

Pick a nominee, any nominee

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Age of Ash
FICTION 

Ash and You Shall Receive

February 15, 2022February 15, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments

‘Age of Ash,’ first in a fantasy trilogy from one of the creators of ‘The Expanse’

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How High
FICTION 

Memories of the Future Apocalypse

February 1, 2022April 3, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments How High We Go In The Dark, Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, Sequoia Nagamatsu

Sequoia Nagamatsu’s elegiac debut novel imagines an even worse pandemic

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science fiction
FICTION 

The Most Superlative Science Fiction Books of 2021

December 15, 2021December 21, 2021 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Adrian Tchaikovsky, Andy Weir, Harry Josephine Giles, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Nnedi Okorafor, Project Hail Mary, Rivers Solomon, Shards of Earth

The recent past of future reading

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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Ready or not, here comes the “magical” Netflix adaption of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

Shazam!
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The Shazam! Family is All Foster Families

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The Mandalorian
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‘The Mandalorian’ Gets Biblical in Season 3

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What Price ‘Glory’?

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