Category Archives: Books
Reclaiming the Monster
Women can be monsters too. From snake-haired Medusa to the horrifying mama-alien of the Alien movies, female monsters have often embodied male fears of women’s ...
Blobs, Orbs, and Starfish: Really Alien Aliens
Book blogger Shruti Ramanujam recently published a list of “oddly specific storylines” she loves in books, that made me laugh out loud. And it made ...
Elephants and Radium Girls
In The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander has taken on two strange and disturbing events from the early 20th century: the willfully negligent poisoning of ...
The Broken Earth Trilogy
Reading each volume of The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin left me electrified. The first two books, The Fifth Season and The Obelisk ...
Coming out as a Fan
It’s time for me to come out as a member of sci-fi fandom. I love science fiction and fantasy. I’ve read the books, watched the ...
American Bardo
As I read George Saunders’ daring first novel Lincoln in the Bardo recently, I was struck by its strangely close parallels with another memorable and ...
Thinking about Gaia
In this month of Earth Day and marching for science and climate, I’m thinking about Gaia. A hashtag popped up on Twitter last week: #ifonlytheearthcouldspeak ...
Grieving for a whole planet
When I saw the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope, I couldn’t get past that moment when Princess Leia sees her home planet, Alderaan, ...
An Alternate History reading list for this moment
Are we living in an alternate branch of history? I’ve been asking myself that question since waking up the morning of November 9, with the ...
Other Times, Other Worlds—Fran Wilde & Lawrence M. Schoen
I’m excited to be part of All But True’s next author event, “Other Times, Other Worlds,” with two award-winning science fiction authors: Fran Wilde and ...