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 […]
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Dread Nation – Justina Ireland And In the End: The Last Days of the Beatles – Ken McNab Deathless Divide – Justina Ireland The Dark Fantastic – Ebony Elizabeth Thomas* Project Management – Adrienne Watt Who I Am – Pete Townshend Bloom – Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau You Brought Me the Ocean – Alex […]
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BOOKLIST 2020 Love’s Not Colorblind – Kevin Patterson Bowie’s Bookshelf – John O’Connell Notes from Underground – Stephen Duncombe The Nickel Boys* – Colson Whitehead Information Services Today – Sandra Hirsch, ed. Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud The Last Emperox*- John Scalzi The Hard Tomorrow* – Eleanor Davis Too Much and NeVer Enough – Mary […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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2017 BOOK LIST Children of the New World* – Alexander Weinstein Set the Boy Free** – Johnny Marr Substance: Inside New Order* – Peter Hook Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Joy Degruy We Gon’ Be Alright – Jeff Chang Tau Zero* – Poul Anderson Finks – Joel Whitney The Truth About Trump* – Michael D’Antonio The […]
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2016 Book list Pyongyang – Guy Delisle Race in American Science Fiction* – Isiaah Lavender How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America** – Kiese Laymon The Bazaar of Bad Dreams – Stephen King A Little Life*** – Hanya Yanagihara Roving Pack* – Sassafras Lowrey The […]
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2015 Book list (asterisk indicates books I really enjoyed) In the Miso Soup – Ryu Murakami Game of Thrones and Philosophy – edited by Henry Jacoby and William Irwin The Crash of 2016* – Thom Hartmann The Martian* – Andy Weir Super Justice Force – David J. Walker Hitler’s War – Harry Turtledove Black Girl […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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