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Rakesfall by Vajra ChandrasekeraBrace yourself for a wild ride through cascading realities, where the dead and living intermingle in daily life, and exploding time scales from...
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Service Model by Adrian TchaikovskyI once read that most novel plots could be reduced to two great starting points: a stranger comes to town, and someone goes on a journey. In...
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The City in Glass by Nghi VoWhile reading Nghi Vo’s beautifully crafted and deeply imaginative The City in Glass, I kept wondering where the story was going, even what it was...
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Taking on My Fantasy TBR – Assassin’s Apprentice and The Book That Wouldn’t BurnWith ever less time for blogging due to various physical annoyances, I’m limited in what I can contribute to Wyrd & Wonder this time around...
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Convergence Problems by Wole TalabiWole Talabi, in his brilliant story collection Convergence Problems, offers an intriguing idea about how stories can be told. It contrasts sharply...
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Daughter of the Merciful Deep by Leslye PenelopeAfter yet more downtime caused by, first, the misery of a post-covid illness, something like a cold from hell, and then happy times during a...
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True Names by Vernor VingeThe passing of Vernor Vinge, author of the great A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep, led me to go back to one of his earliest...
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Selected Stories by Theodore SturgeonIt’s a month since I came down with covid, and I’m still dealing with weird aftereffects. But an excellent way to get my brain going again came to...
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Makeover World – Part 3Here is the third installment in Makeover World, one of the Stories of Elektra series. Like Time Islands, this is a longer story so I’m publishing...
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Makeover World – Part 2Here is another installment in the Stories of Elektra series. Like Time Islands, this is a longer story so I’m publishing it in three parts on...
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Makeover World – Part 1Here is another installment in the Stories of Elektra series. Like Time Islands, this is a longer story so I’m publishing it in three parts...
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People of Light 2After four years and all those immunizations, I finally came down with covid. So I’ve been out of commission for a couple of weeks and just...
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The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee MohamedDuring the recent Coode Street podcast interview with Premee Mohamed, she came up with an interesting phrase that seemed to capture what happens...
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Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa“What are we but stories that touch?” This crucial question arises early in one of the poetic interludes of this absorbing novella about the...
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Blade – Inverted Frontier 4 by Linda NagataIn previous novels of the Inverted Frontier series (Edges, Silver and Needle), Linda Nagata often posed the question of what it took to retain...
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Foundation’s Edge by Isaac AsimovWhen Isaac Asimov wrote Foundation’s Edge, a sequel to the original Foundation trilogy, he was very much into his project of integrating all of...
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The Tusks of Extinction by Ray NaylerRay Nayler’s beautiful novella, The Tusks of Extinction, focuses on a handful of very different characters whose lives converge on a hunting...
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Machine Vendetta by Alastair Reynolds: A Prefect Dreyfus NovelAlastair Reynolds has produced a fine, fast-paced thriller in Machine Vendetta, the third, and apparently final novel in the Prefect Dreyfus...
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Time Islands – Part 3Time Islands is the third installment of the Stories of Elektra series. (The first two were People of Light 1 and Dead Memories.) This one is...
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Time Islands – Part 2Time Islands is the third installment of the Stories of Elektra series. (The first two were People of Light 1 and Dead Memories.) This one is...
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10 Favorite SFF Novels of 20232023 brought me some of the most remarkable reading experiences of the last several years. A few, like The Mountain In the Sea and When Woman Were...
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Dead Memories“Dead Memories” is the second in the Stories of Elektra series, following “People of Light 1“. These interconnected...
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People of Light 1People of Light 1 is a first glimpse into a world called Elektra, settled by humans in the past two hundred years, a past, of course, far in our...
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Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – A Review for #SciFiMonthI needed to re-read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky because I was tone-deaf years ago to what the author was doing when I first opened this...
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Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov: A Re-Reading for #SciFiMonthTo finish up my re-reading of Isaac Asimov’s original Foundation trilogy, this week I’m looking at his Second Foundation. The novel, published in...
