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Apr
09
Phantasmion: The First Fantasy Novel
Love and grief at the dawn of fantasy literature
7 min read
Mar
25
Rage and Revenge in Aboriginal Australia’s First Fantasy Novel
"The Kadaitcha Sung" asks whether the crimes of colonisation can ever be set right
11 min read
Mar
10
"The Zen Gun" (1983)
cosmic decadence and unionised robots
6 min read
Feb
15
Linguistic Superpowers: Samuel R. Delany's "Babel-17"
the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis jacked up on steroids
5 min read
Jan
29
The First Secondary World
independent fictional worlds were invented more recently than the steam train
13 min read
Nov
29
Love and Hate in Superposition: "The Quantum Rose" by Catherine Asaro
The sci-fi romance novel that's also an in-depth allegory for quantum physics
7 min read
Nov
04
Go Directly To Hell: Michael Shea’s “Nifft the Lean”
A face-melting feast
8 min read
Sep
18
Death is the Soul-Vulture: Ian Watson’s “Deathhunter”
A psychedelic afterlife fantasy that comes so close to greatness
9 min read
Aug
14
"The Wizards and the Warriors": A Lost Treasure of 80s Fantasy
At first glance, Hugh Cook’s The Wizards and the Warriors (1986) presents a very unpromising prospect. There is the
8 min read
Jul
14
"Behold the Man": Michael Moorcock's Big Middle Finger to Christianity
a juvenile and mean-spirited novel from one of SFF's greatest authors
9 min read