Awards:
This year’s Man Booker Prize finalist list includes two works of genre interest.
Books and Writing:
At Tor.com, Seanan Maguire writes about fanfic as the best writing school there is.
For all you writers out there, some of these markets are open through the end of the month, so send them your stuff!
The Stan Lee story gets stranger and sadder, as the iconic comics publisher/cameo artist, who is responsible for the largest comics empire in the nation,
April 18th, 2018. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 1 comment |
2017’s Exit West by Mohsin Hamid is definitely not speculative fiction. It is general fiction, literary in nature, which uses a trope of speculative fiction as one way to explore the nature of war, love and human migration.
There is always a risk when a general fiction writer “discovers” speculative fiction and tries to write it without having read within the genre. The story often contains hackneyed, tired-out elements which the writer trumpets as new and amazing. Hamid dodges this risk completely.
April 18th, 2018. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Mohsin Hamid | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
I’ve seen Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase casually described as postmodern, as surreal, and as magic realism. Though it was published in 1982 (and translated into English in 1989), and though the main character is not a private investigator, I nevertheless think of it as a weird private investigator novel. Private investigators are often associated with thrillers, their novels can play with the expectation that the detective will solve the case, and/ or they can create a noir atmosphere that the hero inhabits on the reader’s behalf.
April 18th, 2018. Ryan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Haruki Murakami | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Gentlemen, I concur! (Forgive me for jumping into your convo)
The cover is amazing. I love how the graphic novel (and the review!) hewed close to the theme of "good…
I've thought about picking that one up. The artwork looks perfect.
I like the way you think, Bill. I found the second one particularly objectionable; the one with Khan. It was…
I find if I take every Trek reference out of them (the title, the character names, the ship names, etc.),…