From the British Fantasy Society, here's your weekend read: With his debut novel Rivennia out in the big wide world, Mexican-born author Jaime Urencio asks how speculative storytelling can help us to shape the future—and to warn us about it, too.
https://britishfantasysociety.org/the-power-of-speculative-fiction/
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A remarkable exploration of family, society, and what makes us human, HUMAN will take you from the post-apocalyptic world of the near future, to the two very different societies that emerge 15 million years later, where those few surviving individuals have evolved to become something that we might not fully recognize as human.
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Book Review: Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Author: Marie-Helene Bertino
Title: Beautyland
Narrator: Andi Arndt
Publication Info: Dreamscape, 2024
Summary/Review:
At the same time as the Voyager I launch in 1977, Adina is born to a working-class single mother in Philadelphia. Adina is different from other children in that she’s actually an alien. She lives the life of a human reporting what she learns to the others on her home planet through a fax machine. Stretching from the 1970s to close to the present day, Beautyland is the story of Adina’s life through all the struggles and joys an ordinary human might experience. It’s beautifully written with Adina’s observations on the mundane and the profound both fascinating. This book works if it’s a science fiction story about an actual alien or if it’s a metaphor for a human’s isolation and alienation from others.
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Rating: ****
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Explore how Marvel and DC built their comic book multiverses, compare them with Moorcock, Zelazny, Pullman, and King, and learn craft lessons for building multiverse trilogies.
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Explore how Marvel and DC built their comic book multiverses, compare them with Moorcock, Zelazny, Pullman, and King, and learn craft lessons for building multiverse trilogies.
From the bestselling author of the Trickster trilogy comes a bold fantasy inspired by the Indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest, set on a dangerous planet where monsters haunt the survivors of an apocalyptic sorcerers' war.
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Brett Hodnett
Eli K.P. William
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