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Science Fiction
February 25, 2021
The Phlebotomist
Chris Panatier
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Humans have found many ways to divide and stratify—by skin color, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, health status, body type or size, and so on. The list is …
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Science Fiction
February 4, 2021
The Light Years
R. W. W. Greene
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Arranged marriages have been around for centuries, and in The Light Years (Angry Robot, 2020), R.W.W. Greene imagines they’ll be around for centuries more. With the addition of speed-of-light travel, Greene’s …
Science Fiction
January 14, 2021
Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse
Hosted by Rob Wolf
The first chapter of Rebecca Roanhorse’s new novel, Black Sun (Gallery/Saga Press, 2020), features a mother and child sharing a tender moment that takes an unexpected turn, ending in violence. It’s …
Science Fiction
December 24, 2020
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Hosted by Rob Wolf
The Ministry for the Future (Orbit, 2020) is a sweeping novel about climate change and how people of the near future start to slow, stop and reverse it. The story opens with …
Literature
December 11, 2020
Alexandria
Paul Kingsnorth
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Over the last ten years, Paul Kingsnorth has become recognised as one of the most extraordinary of contemporary writers. After The Wake, which was listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 …
Science Fiction
November 25, 2020
The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Alix E. Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches (Redhook, 2020) begins with the familiar phrase “Once upon a time” but the novel is anything but a traditional fairytale. Yes, there are …
Science Fiction
October 29, 2020
Ring Shout
P. Djèlí Clark
Hosted by Rob Wolf
P. Djèlí Clark’s new novella, Ring Shout (Tordotcom, 2020) is a fantasy built around an ugly moment in American history—the emergence of the second Ku Klux Klan in the early …
Literature
October 8, 2020
The Constant Rabbit
Jasper Fforde
Hosted by Rob Wolf
In Jasper Fforde’s The Constant Rabbit (Viking, 2020), residents of the United Kingdom live among human-sized anthropomorphized rabbits. The rabbits make fine citizens—more than fine, in fact. They in live …
Literature
September 17, 2020
The New Wilderness
Diane Cook
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness (Harper, 2020) is a poignant portrait of a mother and daughter fleeing the polluted cities of a near-future dystopia for a hand-to-mouth existence in the …
Film
September 10, 2020
NeuroScience Fiction
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
Hosted by John Griffiths
In NeuroScience Fiction (Benbella Books, 2020), Rodrigo Quian Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by new discoveries and technological advances …
Literature
August 27, 2020
ReV
The Machine Dynasty, Book III
Madeline Ashby
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Writers and readers of science fiction love stories about artificial intelligence, robots, and mechanical beings whose sentience mirrors, matches or exceeds that of humans. The stories stay fresh for the …
Literature
July 30, 2020
Beneath the Rising
Premee Mohamed
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Premee Mohamed’s debut novel, Beneath the Rising (Solaris, 2020) came out in March, but don’t call her a new writer. “I find it funny that people refer to people who …
Literature
July 9, 2020
The Down Days
Ilze Hugo
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Few science fiction writers have their vision of the future tested upon publication. But that’s what happened to Ilze Hugo, whose novel about a mysterious epidemic, The Down Days (Skybound …
Literature
June 18, 2020
Riot Baby
Tochi Onyebuchi
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby (Tor.com, 2020) tells the story of two siblings—Ella, who is gifted with powers of precognition and telekinesis, and her younger brother Kevin, whose exuberant resistance to …
Film
May 29, 2020
Planet Auschwitz
Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television
Brian Crim
Hosted by Craig Sorvillo
In his new book, Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Brian Crim explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust …
Literature
May 28, 2020
Velocity Weapon
The Protectorate, Book 1
Megan E. O'Keefe
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Velocity Weapon (Orbit, 2019) by Megan E. O’Keefe centers on siblings: Biran, a member of an elite cadre that controls the interstellar gates by which humans travel among star systems …
Literature
May 7, 2020
Goldilocks
Laura Lam
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Laura Lam’s new book Goldilocks (Orbit, 2020) takes readers into space with an all-female crew bound for a distant Earth-like planet. The all-female crew isn’t the only twist; there’s also …
Literature
April 16, 2020
The Imaginary Corpse
Tyler Hayes
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Tyler Hayes's The Imaginary Corpse (Angry Robot, 2019) offers an escape from the unending stress of the Covid-19 pandemic with three simple words: plush yellow triceratops. Nothing could be farther …
Literature
March 26, 2020
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Ken Liu’s second collection of speculative stories explores migration, memory, and a post-human future through the eyes of parents and their children. Whether his characters are adjusting to life on …
Literature
March 12, 2020
Docile
K. M. Szpara
Hosted by Rob Wolf
In Docile (Tor.com, 2020), the debut novel by K.M. Szpara, people pay off family debts by working as indentured personal assistants to the ultra-wealthy. Tor describes the book as a …
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