BOOKS OVERVIEW NOT FINISHED In late 2022 and crossing over into January 2023, I read the books in Octavia Butler’s Patternist series. There is an additional book, titled Survivor, that was originally published as part of the series, but which she subsequently disavowed and allowed to go out-of-print because she realized it was pretty shoddy […]
READ MORE2019 BOOK LIST
BOOK LIST 2019 This is the 10th Anniversary of the Book List! Friday Black – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Go Ahead in the Rain – Hanif Abdurraqib* Pink Noises – Tara Rodgers Moshi moshi – Banana Yoshimoto Blackbird – David Harrower Art Sex Music – Cosey Fanni Tutti The Witch Boy– Molly Knox Ostertag** The Book […]
READ MORE2018 BOOK LIST
2018 BOOK LIST Women of Ice and Fire – edited by Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart Seventeen – Kenzaburo Oe So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo** J – Kenzaburo Oe Dark Money – Jane Mayer** Annihilation – Jeff Vandermer The Leftovers – Tom Perotta Educated – Tara Westover Fetch – Nicole […]
READ MOREFollow-Up to “Space for Us All” – Some Race and Sci-Fi-related Commentary
Hey folks, Following up on my piece from last week, I’m posting links a few articles on race and sci-fi I’ve seen online in this past week by Noah Berlatsky from The Atlantic from last year. The first piece makes some really interesting points about how often and how colonial narratives (and anti-colonial narratives) are […]
READ MORESpace For Us All
The eagerly awaited seventh installment of the popular space opera series Star Wars, subtitled “The Force Awakens”, is set to hit theaters later this month. But earlier this fall, a small group of racist Twitter trolls set off yet another skirmish in the culture wars by launching a new hashtag in response to the film’s […]
READ MORE