A bit emo. Too dark. Woke stuff. Vulgar.
A bit emo. Too dark. Woke stuff. Vulgar.
Body horror is in the eye of the beholder. One person’s eating disorder is another person’s wedding feast; this person’s nightmare about life-stealing parasites is
The deadline for Hugo voting is imminent. The last of the categories I was willing to read cover to cover, the novellas, continues in the
The five stories nominated in the Hugos’ “Best Novelette” category represent science fiction’s mainstream better than the short story category.
I will not be coy and pretend I do not know that the contenders for this year’s Hugo Awards are controversial.
In a lot of more literary speculative fiction, the monsters are allegorical. Familiar creatures can be taken as shorthand for particular themes – unicorns for
We’ve come a long way since the unjust imprisonment of Edmund Dantes. For one thing, we no longer frame political imprisonment as an individual problem
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