The Rift, Nina Allan’s bleak but no less beautiful follow-up to The Race, is ostensibly about the mystery surrounding the 20-year disappearance and eventual reappearance of a girl named Julie Rouane, and the pain her family goes through during while she’s missing, and after she’s returned, claiming to have visited an alien world. But rather than get […]
Under the right circumstances, writing has a magic all its own. The right turn of phrase, a sentence deployed in the right place, and suddenly, a work just unfurls. The same goes for writing in science fiction and fantasy novels, where the magic can become entirely literal. Sometimes, those metafictional worlds can be just as exciting and wonderful […]
And we thought choosing the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015 was tough. Not only was 2016 an outstanding year for wholly new entertainments across all facets of the genre, it also featured high-profile sequels to many of last year’s very best reads. We could have easily packed the list with a dozen […]
Nina Allan’s debut novel The Race is the best kind of metafiction: while the novel’s structure is incredibly engaging and easy to follow, it reveals its odd and vibrant world only by degrees, raising bit questions and only hinting at the answers, rather then spelling them out in bold text. In a display of mastery of narrative viewpoint, each […]
While we gear up for San Diego Comic-Con, we’re planning what to bring with us to read on the flight. Any one of this week’s new releases in SFF would make those six hours fly by.