Book #13 of 2026: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 edited by Nnedi Okorafor I got my hopes up during the introduction to this collection, in which series editor John Joseph Adams explains the selection methodology: he himself read several thousand short stories of genre fiction published throughout a single calendar year, aiming …
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Book Review: The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Book #131 of 2017: The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson I’ve never read H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, the story that so directly inspired this one, but I’ve read enough of his other works to have a sense of the racism and violent misogyny that pervade the man’s writing. Those facets …
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