SFF Author: Colson Whitehead

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The Underground Railroad: A moving, substantive, mature work of fiction

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead’s new novel, The Underground Railroad, is a brilliantly realized blend of magical and literary realism that grabs one hard at the start and rarely lets go. The magical aspect appears via Whitehead’s decision to make the railroad literal as opposed to a metaphor and in the way […]

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Harlem Shuffle: Another twist from a master storyteller

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead One thing we can be sure to expect from Colson Whitehead is the unexpected. The double Pulitzer Prize winner shot to fame with the alternate history (and FanLit favourite) The Underground Railroad. He debuted with speculative fiction, later wrote a zombie novel, and his work now takes another twist: a […]

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