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NYT Otherworldly Column: Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s THE MERRY SPINSTER, Aliette de Bodard’s THE TEA MASTER AND THE DETECTIVE, Kelly Robson’s GODS, MONSTERS, AND THE LUCKY PEACH, and Tessa Gratton’s THE QUEENS OF INNIS LEAR Continue reading →

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First OTHERWORLDLY column at the NYT Book Review

Posted on February 22, 2018 by

My first column for the NYTBR is here! The print version will be in this week’s Sunday edition. In it I review Del and Sofia Samatar’s Monster Portraits, Subterranean Press’ Weight of Words anthology, and Jo Walton’s Starlings. Here’s a taste: More than any … Continue reading →

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Max and Amal Go to the Movies: THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

Posted on April 27, 2017 by

Behold! The second instalment of Max and my column for Uncanny is here! Read our thoughts on The Girl With All the Gifts by way of Twists, Buddhism, Decolonialism and Ecopocalypse. Also extreme sillyness. In other news — literally — I sent out my … Continue reading →

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Review Column in March Issue of Lightspeed

Posted on March 1, 2017 by

It’s the first of a new month, and with it comes a shiny new issue of Lightspeed!  I have a review column in this one, in which I talk about sequels and what I think made so many of them … Continue reading →

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Lightspeed Column: RADIANCE, THE BURIED GIANT, BONE SWANS

Posted on December 15, 2015 by

My Lightspeed column for the December issue is now online! I take a look at Catherynne M. Valente’s Radiance, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, and CSE Cooney’s debut collection Bone Swans.  My rationale for reviewing these wonderfully varied books together is the strong fairy tale through-line … Continue reading →

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Lightspeed Column: UPROOTED, LAST FIRST SNOW, WICKED + THE DIVINE vol 2, ZER0ES

Posted on September 15, 2015 by

My review column for Lightspeed magazine is available online today! I look at Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, Max Gladstone’s Last First Snow, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s The Wicked + The Divine: Fandemonium, and Chuck Wendig’s Zer0es. Here’s some thematic rationale: We’re approaching the harvest time of … Continue reading →

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Lightspeed Column: Aqueduct Press’ Congress of Ghosts

Posted on March 17, 2015 by

Today is the day my first Lightspeed Magazine column goes up online! You can read it here. It features a triple bill of Aqueduct Press titles centred around echoes, ghosts, and hauntings: Lisa M. Bradley’s The Haunted Girl, Jenn Brissett’s Elysium, and Sonya Taaffe’s Ghost Signs. … Continue reading →

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