70s

Feb
18
Cover art depicting an alien playing cards with four hands.

Purest Hazard

The Grand Wheel (1977), Barrington J. Bayley
5 min read
Jan
22
Book cover depicting three women in togas, all bearing knives, apparently mirror images of each other.

The Adventures of "The Adventures of Alyx"

This was in Ourdh, where all things are possible
7 min read
May
31
book covers of "Rogomelec" and "The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington"

Two Books by Surrealist Women

Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, and the ocean of literature
6 min read
Feb
16
Paperback edition of "The Second Experiment". Cover art depicts a dragon attacking or... humping? a conical spaceship.

The Lonely Cosmos of J. O. Jeppson's "The Second Experiment"

Maybe all stories about space are also stories about loneliness
8 min read
Dec
16
book cover depicting a sentient lizard, riding on a saddled dolphin, swimming through sand dunes

Perverse Playground: Jack L. Chalker’s "Midnight at the Well of Souls"

On writers' fetishes, isekai stories, and transformation
8 min read
Dec
14
Photo of 1970s paperback edition. Depicts a semi-nude man hovering in lotus position, psychic waves coming from his head.

An Inescapable Pattern: Octavia E. Butler's "Patternmaster"

On power and the limits of imagination
8 min read