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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

(Cover Artist: Dan Funderburgh ) Occasionally I'll read a book whose ending completely alters the nature of the story that preceded it, and which…

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

(Cover Artist: Ernst Haas) There's a way that Ursula Le Guin's 1971 novel  The Lathe of Heaven  is often described, and I want to start this…

Strange Horizons Review of Joma West's Twice Lived

A review I wrote of Joma West's novel  Twice Lived  is up in the most recent issue of Strange Horizons, and can be read at  this link . This book…

Kaisa Saarinen’s Weather Underwater reviewed at Strange Horizons

(Cover Illustrator: Alice M.) Strange Horizons have posted a review I wrote for them of Kaisa Saarinen's novel Weather Underwater , which can be…

Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief reviewed for Strange Horizons

A review I wrote for Strange Horizons of Lavanya Lakshminarayan's   The Ten Percent Thief  is currently up, and can be read at this link. This bo…

Strange Horizons Review of Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland

(Cover Artist: Na Kim ) Strange Horizons recently posted a review I wrote for them of  Rivers Solomon's  gothic science fiction novel  Sorrowland…

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

(Cover Artist: Greg Ruth ) I'm at a little bit of a loss for how best to describe  Nnedi Okorafor's  novella  Remote Control , simply because…

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

(Cover Artist: Greg Stadnyk) There's something extremely important about  Amal El-Mohtar 's and  Max Gladstone 's 2019 novella  This Is H…

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

(Cover Designer: Tyler Comrie ) Yoko Ogawa's 1994 novel The Memory Police  is unusual in part for how subtle the book's premise is. First tra…

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

(Cover Artist: Sigrid Estrada ) One of the things that makes Banana Yoshimoto's 1988 novella  Kitchen  so unique is how approachable the story is…

Arrival by Ted Chiang

The most striking quality of the stories appearing in Ted Chiang's anthology Arrival  (which was originally published in 2002 under the title  S…

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

(Cover Artist: Rebecca Guay ) Out of all of the books in the Earthsea series, Tehanu is often characterized as the point where  Le Guin  undertook th…