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Rich and Strange: “The New Mother” by Eugene Fischer

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Amal El-Mohtar

This week on Rich and Strange, I take a look at “The New Mother,” a novella by Eugene Fischer headlining the current issue of Asimov’s. Tess Mendoza is a freelance journalist writing a high-profile piece on the social implications of Gamete … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” by Brooke Bolander

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Amal El-Mohtar

This week’s Rich and Strange looks at a blazing, fast-paced, relentless sort of story by Brooke Bolander: “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead,” published this month in Lightspeed magazine. In the far-future there are fully synthetic humans … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “Tiger Baby” by JY Yang

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Amal El-Mohtar

This week’s story, from the ever-superb Lackington’s, glances against the Lunar New Year, so I’m very glad my review of it appears today! Please also note the absolutely gorgeous artwork accompanying it, by Likhain. The story is mostly slice-of-life, the stylized … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “In Loco Parentis” by Andrea Phillips

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Amal El-Mohtar

January was full of settling back in to life in Canada — or rather, figuring out ways to navigate remaining thoroughly UN-settled, as my life has been such that I’ve still not found time to unpack my suitcases — and … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “The Boatman’s Cure” by Sonya Taaffe

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Amal El-Mohtar

Happy New Year, and welcome back to Rich and Strange! I took a bit of a break over the holidays — in order to, among other things, move back to Ottawa from Glasgow — but the series is back, and the … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “Nkásht íí” by Darcie Little Badger

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Amal El-Mohtar

In this week’s Rich and Strange I take a look at Darcie Little Badger’s “Nkásht íí,” published in Strange Horizons. Josie and Annie are friends in ill fortune, homeless runaways who offer to listen to people’s problems on the street. … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “No Vera There” by Dominica Phetteplace

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Amal El-Mohtar

This week I look at a story from the ever-excellent Clarkesworld. “No Vera There” is one of those stories that simultaneously engages parts of my brain that appreciate very different things: in this case narrative and structure. There’s something supremely … Continue reading →

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Rich & Strange + NPR Best Books of the Year

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Amal El-Mohtar

This week’s instalment of Rich & Strange is up at Tor.com! I reviewed Max Gladstone’s “A Kiss With Teeth,” which was also published on Tor.com. That may seem odd at a glance, but when I agreed to host the column on Tor.com … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy” by Saladin Ahmed

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Amal El-Mohtar

This week at Tor.com I review Saladin Ahmed’s wonderful subversion of long-standing racism in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. “Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy” has a straightforward structure: using quotes from the Faerie Queene as a frame, it takes up … Continue reading →

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Rich and Strange: “Stalemate” by Rose Lemberg and “Bonsaiships of Venus” by Kate Heartfield

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Amal El-Mohtar

This week’s column is up at Tor.com! A new issue of Lackington’s magazine, edited by Ranylt Richildis, went up this week, book-ended by two searingly beautiful meditations on the relationship between aesthetics and utility. This week on Rich and Strange, … Continue reading →

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