I spent a lot of time considering style in Garden of Earthly Bodies.

Mohamed never goes easy on her characters, and even when they’re on the verge of a breakthrough, it’s obvious that another setback is lurking just around the corner. Possibly with tentacles.

Abad is acutely aware that the estranging power of speculation can provide a chance to bridge the alienation that it seems to produce.

I had such a fun time reading this novel.

Although I can see the similarities to vampires, the deep gender divides in book eater society and the unique way that the book eaters operate put them in an inventive literary class of their own.

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions in October!

“You are right. I understood this myself when I read your novel The Time Machine. All Human conceptions are on the scale of our planet. They are based on the pretension that the technical potential, though it will develop, will never exceed the terrestrial limit. If we succeed in establishing interplanetary communications, all our philosophies, moral and social views, will have to be revised. In this case the technical potential, become limitless, will impose the end of the role of violence as a means and method of progress.” (Vladimir Ilych Lenin, in conversation with H. G. Wells at the Kremlin, Moscow, 1920) “We have internal enemies.

Maps, like any other form of communication, are subjective: they tell a story, they have a point of view, they can lie or simply be wrong.

The problem with Hainak is that there’s so little incentive to fix it among those who might do so.

Book of Night is a fun, atmospheric, and engaging romp that will surely bewitch fantasy lovers—but it has some problems.