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Apr
30
dinosaurs and humans marching beneath a huge wooden crucifix with a pocketwatch hanging off it.

Discovering the True Nature of Time with Brian Aldiss’ “Cryptozoic!”

time travel, psychedelia and Freud
7 min read
Mar
10
book cover depicting a stone bust of a human head surrounded by animal heads

"The Zen Gun" (1983)

cosmic decadence and unionised robots
6 min read
Sep
18
Lurid 70s sci-fi painting, woman in alien landscape with tentacle emerging from her chest

Death is the Soul-Vulture: Ian Watson’s “Deathhunter”

A psychedelic afterlife fantasy that comes so close to greatness
9 min read
Apr
16
Book cover depicting a trollish figure, white rats, and a ring hanging from a string

Liminal Labyrinth

Magic and modernity in Margaret St. Clair's "Sign of the Labrys"
10 min read
Dec
11
Photo of the novel. Cover art features a man on a robotic fire-breathing horse being attacked by giant purple hands.

The Psychedelic Wizardry of Roger Zelazny’s "The Changing Land"

On bibliophilia, van art wizards, and integrity in fiction
7 min read