Recent Reviews28 September 2016 It might make sense, as you read this, if you imagine my face frozen in a rictus of confused (and occasionally horrified) joy, as that might be a start to understanding the sheer depth of emotion I've felt over these two and a half hours of film. 26 September 2016 Summerlong has all the beauty of Beagle's earlier works, with an additional gravitas of worldly wisdom and even weariness that makes it ache with a bit more sharpness. The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee 23 September 2016 Vampire fiction has something Chee wants, as fuel for the engine of his 553-page novel about the fortunes of Lilliet Berne, a nineteenth-century celebrity soprano. But he doesn’t seem to want the cross-contamination. 21 September 2016 We can see what the Duffer Brothers were raised on, but what might their children being raised on, other than new versions of those same things? Hwarhath Stories by Eleanor Arnason 19 September 2016 In hwarhath tragedy, the characters act right. That is, they make the choice their culture says they should make, and because of this, they die, tragically. This is hwarhath serious literature, remember. This is the correct cultural ethos. But we are not reading hwarhath serious literature. We're reading not just hwarhath fiction, but subversive hwarhath fiction. Apocalypse: An Epic Poem by Frederick Turner 16 September 2016 Can Turner wrestle something new from all Kingfisher by Patricia A. McKillip 16 September 2016 It seems that McKillip is inviting us to ask ourselves: did all those glorious quests really matter? Who did they matter to? Were they as central to the fate of the world as their protagonists would have us believe? 14 September 2016 One of the things that attracts me to games set in the future is the idea that we'll be, collectively, doing better. On its surface, Job Simulator appeared to offer just that. I Am No One by Patrick Flanery 12 September 2016 Neither is there a sufficiently developed literary irony for us to suppose that Jeremy’s general dickheadedness serves a higher purpose. Twelve Tomorrows edited by Bruce Sterling 09 September 2016 These stories are important for today's readers, as much as and perhaps even more than ambitious stories about post-scarcity futures or AI shipminds. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 07 September 2016 The best thing about the eighth Harry Potter adventure is the staging, followed by the acting; the worst thing about it is the plot. 05 September 2016 Ninefox Gambit's is a world that confronts you with its own depth. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer 02 September 2016 Carlyle’s view of the world was both selfish and hierarchical, and, for all its protestations of an Enlightenment model, in detail the world of Too Like the Lightning is closer to what Carlyle might have imagined. 31 August 2016 I'm here to review a film. When the end credits roll, I know that I'm meant to go home and distil my impressions into words. Yet here the credits are, and I don't really feel like I understand what I've just watched. The Explorers Guild Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala by Kevin Costner, Jon Baird, and Rick Ross 29 August 2016 To sweep, you've got to have sufficient space in which to move, and the protagonists of these narratives are traditionally entitled to any territory they wish to traverse. View older reviews in our Archive, thanks to the kindness of our authors who allow us to keep their material online. |
