Welcome to this Choose Your Own Adventure-style review.

The anthologizing of the “lost” that Fennell ably performs here is not the promotion of a lost genre, but the rediscovery of lost stories of that genre.

While not every story in the collection features women finding solutions to their oppressive circumstances, solidarity is a core component every time they do.

To say anything about Melvido’s Dreams itself, one must begin with an account of humanism’s world-historic failure.

I’m sorry to bring up the recent US election, but I also have to bring up the recent US election. Its aftermath is certainly a fitting time to be reviewing a book which, set fifty years in the future, presents a world in which North America and Europe have gone their separate ways—after America abolished and then later reinstated democracy. Beyond the Light Horizon is the third and final volume of Ken MacLeod’s evocative Lightspeed Trilogy, and I was delighted to review the first book some two years ago. Beyond the Hallowed Sky enthralled me with its combination of geopolitics, conspiracy, and interplanetary colonisation, standing out for its engrossing and comprehensive worldbuilding.

Gliff is only half of Smith's project.

In The Naming Song a catastrophe has wiped out all knowledge of names and language.

Countess finds inspiration as well as anger in the past.

What emerges from this multiversal narrative is a deep, compelling portrait of a flawed, hurting character.

Absolution is the kind of prequel that shouldn’t be read first.