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I taught you better than to open doors you can’t close

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

January 20, 2019 by Dusty Highway 2 Comments

Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts is yet another great example of the kind of book I would have missed had I not started reading more speculative fiction and diversifying the voices in my library. That would have been a pity, because this complex, powerful novel may very well end up at the top of my 2019 favorites list. After Earth suffered an unnamed cataclysm 300 years ago, the remnants of humanity were crowded onto the spaceship Matilda and launched toward some long-forgotten destination. Humanity […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, cbr11, gender, kindred, LBGT, Racism, Religion, Rivers Solomon, Sexuality, Slavery, snowpiercer, space opera, Speculative Fiction

Dusty Highway's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, cbr11, gender, kindred, LBGT, Racism, Religion, Rivers Solomon, Sexuality, Slavery, snowpiercer, space opera, Speculative Fiction ·
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

December 28, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Magic Barrel – 5/5 Stars This story collection came out in 1959 and contains the well known title story, but also has several other very good stories. It won the National Book Award as well. As I have previously stated in reviews, the age of the writer (here in a kind of debut effort) lends itself to an already mature and thoughtful work (this was also true for many of Raymond Chandler’s stories as well as the story collection A Lucky Man by Jamel […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: bernard malamud, Connie Willis, da, Dashiell Hammett, diana schultz, elric of melibone, embroideries, fox 8, George Saunders, happy endings, how to get filthy rich in rising asia, jasques lob, jean marc rochette, Jill Lepore, joe goulds teeth, Marjane Satrapi, michael moorcock, mohsin hamid, paul harding, philip roth, snowpiercer, the humbling, the magic barrel, The Maltese Falcon, tinkers

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:483 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: bernard malamud, Connie Willis, da, Dashiell Hammett, diana schultz, elric of melibone, embroideries, fox 8, George Saunders, happy endings, how to get filthy rich in rising asia, jasques lob, jean marc rochette, Jill Lepore, joe goulds teeth, Marjane Satrapi, michael moorcock, mohsin hamid, paul harding, philip roth, snowpiercer, the humbling, the magic barrel, The Maltese Falcon, tinkers ·
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