by Derrick A. Bell
★★★★
Tag archives: fantasy
No Gods, No Monsters
(Convergence Saga #1)
by Cadwell Turnbull
★★★★½
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
by Saad Z. Hossain
★★★★
Beneath the Rising
by Premee Mohamed
Flows well enough at the start but as soon as the stakes are set it becomes something like when you humour a friend who wants to recount an incoherent dream they had the night before. Lasting impressions are of unfunny banter, both connection and conflict that don’t ring … Read more
She Who Became the Sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan
★★★½
We Were Witches
by Ariel Gore
★★★★
The Beautiful Ones
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
★½
Spectred Isle
by K.J. Charles
★★★★
Black Water Sister
by Zen Cho
★★★½
A Master of Djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★½
Sorrowland
by Rivers Solomon
★★★½
Shadow Life
by Hiromi Goto, Ann Xu (Illustrations)
★★★
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
by Claire North
★★★★½
Return of the Trickster
(Trickster #3)
by Eden Robinson
★★★½
Oona Out of Order
by Margarita Montimore
★★★
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
by Nisi Shawl (Editor)
- “The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex” by Tobias S. Buckell ★★★½
- “Deer Dancer” by Kathleen Alcalá ★★½
- “The Fine Print” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★½
- “unkind of mercy” by Alex Jennings ★★★½
- “The Freedom of the Shifting Sea” by Jaymee Goh ★★★
- “Three Variations on a Theme of Imperial
Homesick: Stories
by Nino Cipri
★★★
L’Ours et le Rossignol
by Katherine Arden
★★½
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
by Ken Liu (Editor, Translator)
Short Stories
- “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia ★★★¼
- “Tongtong’s Summer” by Xia Jia ★★★★¾
- “Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse” by Xia Jia ★★★
- “Call Girl” by Tang Fei ★★¼
- “The Circle” by Liu Cixin ★★★¼
- “Taking Care of God” by Liu Cixin ★★★★¾
FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction | Issue 16 | Joy
by DaVaun Sanders (Editor)
- “Paid in Full” by Sarah A. Macklin ★★★½
- “Ambrosia” by Margaret Saunders ★★★½