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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
Dec
17

Some non-weird non-old books

in which I briefly suspend my vow to read only the strange and obscure
6 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
Apr
09
Title page of a very old book with a stamped image of a fish coiling around an anchor.

Phantasmion: The First Fantasy Novel

Love and grief at the dawn of fantasy literature
7 min read
Nov
29
A woman in a red silk blouse looks uncertainly at a man in a fur cloak, riding a green alien horse

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
Jun
17
Cover depicting a crying blue-skinned woman in front of a celestial door in front of an exploding planet

Eden Among the Stars: Pauline Gedge’s “Stargate”

An obscure science-fantasy explores the bounds of Tolkien's legacy
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
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
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