Rob Turpin makes beautiful spaceships. Gloriously lumpy, and weirdly graceful, the Weird Field (WF) ships are almost abstract collections of parts, the idea of a spacecraft filtered through the practicality of not having to worry about atmosphere. Weird Field World, Turpin’s first book, collects them all and provides some welcome, and expertly designed, context. In …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Editor’s note: Spoilers for themes, but not specifics. Jonathan Sims knows a thing or two …
Editor’s note: This review is intentionally spoiler free. I’ve been thinking a lot about genre recently. Specifically what happens when ignore it, or tell it to sit politely in a corner with a biscuit while we tell stories larger than it. You’ll see that thread in each of the pieces this week. Giga is a story …
Sal Vidon has a very specific way of dealing with the loss of his mami: pulling alternate versions of her from other universes into his. It’s not perfect, it’s not his mami after all, but it’s enough. Until his dad, a calamity physicist, creates a machine that will close the multiverse-crossing portals Sal uses. Which …
Magic, when you think about it, is terrifying. The real time manipulation of reality through human force of will, not the comforting, consensual lie of stage magic. Or at least, most stage magic (Spoilers, sweetie). Ivy Gamble doesn’t find magic terrifying, just annoying. You’re either born able to use magic or not and Ivy wasn’t. …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Bee is a telepath in her own personal Hell. Locked into a …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 8th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Rush built the Croft’s network to be the exact …
So as you saw announced elsewhere, New Suns, edited by Nisi Shawl, has just been announced. Here’s the cover: Which is by the amazing Yoshi Yoshitani by the way. And here’s the Table of Contents: NEW SUNS, ed. Nisi Shawl. Foreword, LeVar Burton The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias Buckell Deer Dancer, Kathleen Alcalá The …
And speaking of great news, here’s Jen Williams’ new cover! This is the third and final part of The Poison Song, Jen’s second trilogy. It follows industrialist adventuress Vintage, fugitive witch Noon and Tor a not even remotely human barbarian through a post-war world that is facing up to it’s next conflict. It’s Studio Ghibli …
For those of you who don’t know, PseudoPod is the horror fiction podcast I’ve hosted (Oh DEAR GOD) just over a decade now. It’s one quarter of the Escape Artists flotilla of podcasts which also take in YA (Cast of Wonders), Fantasy (PodCastle) and Science Fiction (Escape Pod). Just under 2000 episodes! Maybe more by now! Four shows! All …