I was gonna talk to you all about all sorts of topics related to this book, like intra-race relations, misogyny, black women in horror, all those good things…but the more I read Q-T-Pies the more I just kept thinking… “This isht is [bleep] up.” Repeating over and over again like a broke record. Now, that’s […]
I first heard about the Disney Channel show Princess Elena of Avalor last summer when speaking with a Chicana high school student about how she notices the lack of Latin@ and Chican@ representation in animation and live action programming. Elena of Avalor begins to break that barrier, featuring Disney’s first Latina Princess. Last week, I […]
Book Name: Red Mars Author: Kim Stanley Robinson First Published: 1993 Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel 1993 Author Kim Stanley Robinson was born in Waukegan, Illinois, but mainly grew up in Southern California. He earned a B.A. in literature from the University of California, San Diego in 1974 and gained a Masters in English […]
Sabrina Vourvoulias’ Ink was mentioned in a previous post by Phoebe Wagner, which gathered a few other works that reflect our time to an eerie tee. I picked up the novel because it was a part of my course material in a university class. Vourvouslias’ novel evokes all the feelings of horror that dystopian works […]
Yes, the whole anthology. I tried to pick just one story to talk about out of this issue but I quickly realized…nah. I have to tell you about them all. You know how sometimes in an anthology you’ll have some faves, and the rest are pretty good? This was all killer no filler. For a […]
Book Name: The Integral Trees Author: Larry Niven First Published: 1984 Locus Award 1985 Larry Niven was born in Los Angeles, California and spent much of his childhood in Beverly Hills. His schooling has ranged from a brief stint at Cal Tec, to Washburn University in Kansas, to graduate work in mathematics at UCLA. He […]
Usually I review young adult and middle grade speculative fiction books here, but if I find a craft or craft-related book that I think is really worthwhile, I’ll add it to the mix. That was definitely the case with Kendra Levin’s The Hero is You (2016). It’s not a traditional craft book, but rather a […]
I recently blogged about how Celia Bowen, the protagonist from The Night Circus (2011,) has joined my list of Favorite Female Characters. She’s a surprising addition to this list, because despite the novel’s high praise and awards, I did not enjoy the novel. Two magicians pit their students against each other in a game of […]
It is both gratifying and heartbreaking when reality begins to resemble sci-fi and fantasy: genre fiction gets an unexpected upgrade as the predictions of mere writers come true. This collection of twenty sci-fi infused fairy tales, published in September of 2016, came at exactly the right time. Now that dystopia is becoming the new normal, […]
I had a chance to view Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford, and I had a few … thoughts. (No spoilers promise) This movie isn’t as gimmicky as I thought it would be and wow this actually accurately depicts how women are treated in unfaithful relationships. That’s not to say it was the best, most […]
