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0Shares Pamela N. Harris, a former school counselor turned writer, blends together elements of mystery and social justice to create the compelling, young adult novel, When You Look Like Us follows Jay Murphy and the search for his missing sister Nicole.  Jay struggles to balance academic and financial responsibilities in his effort to repay his grandmother for raising him. While he tries his best to help Mimi out, he also wants to help his sister get back on track so their grandmother doesn�...

For several months now, the literary world has been abuzz about Headley’s modern translation of this ancient saga concerning a mighty war­rior who saves a kingdom by slaying a monster and his vengeful mother, rules his own land in peace for years, and then dies as an old man in a battle with a dragon, abandoned by the ma­jority of his men. I am unsure how much I can add to their assessment, given the seemingly universal acclaim (deservedly so). I will just note that when I reviewed the audi...

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I’ll start with a story from the November-December Asimov’s that doesn’t really qualify as SF or fantasy, but that will appeal to many of our readers. This is Connie Willis‘s latest Christmas story, “ Take a Look at the Five and Ten“. Ori is telling about her Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners with her ex-stepfather, who has a habit of inviting almost everyone in his widely extended family (extended particularly by his half-dozen or so marriages). The latest Thanksgiving dinner is...

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Privacy is a luxury in Cory Doctorow’s Attack Surface , a political technothriller that follows the questionable choices of former spy, gov­ernment operative, and traitor, Masha Maximow, as she builds cyberweapons for authoritarian govern­ments, greedy cyber firms, and progressive activists alike. Taking place a few years after the events of Little Brother and Homeland , this standalone novel yanks readers through Masha’s turbulent life in a series of alternating flashbacks and present...

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has decided to change StokerCon  2021 “from an in-person event to a virtual platform” according to a special announcement posted on the StokerCon  2021 site. Our hope is to preserve the spirit of StokerCon ™ and create an event that will resemble as closely as possible our usual programming—panels, presentations, interviews, author readings, ceremonies, and the Bram Stoker Awards ® presentation. At this time our plans include the Ann Radcliffe Aca...