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People are always asking where they should start reading particular authors. This series of posts working their way through the alphabet as represented by my bookshelves, is an attempt to answer those questions. The popular “A” list can be found here, and the full alphabetical index is here. Please comment to add any B writers that I may have missed, and of course to argue with my choices. I’m linking to my posts on the books where I have made such posts. My B shelf begins with a disturbi...

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP An interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Jamal Journal is published by the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Visit www.jamaljournal.com. Mark Lewis Taylor has been a professor in religion and society at Princeton Theological Seminary since 1982. He is also the founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal (EMAJ), which was first known as Academics for Mum...

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP May 21, 2021 An interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, founder of Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal This new mural featuring Pam and Ramona Africa alongside other Black women community activists was unveiled on May 11, 2021 directly across the street from Philadelphia City Hall, on the very same block where the infamous statue of Frank Rizzo once stood. Photo: Jamal Journal staff photographer Joe Piette by the Jamal Journal May 21...

10 Books with Alien Aliens The question “are we alone in the universe?” has rung across countless centuries and cultures. Works of fiction and speculation attempt to address this, but a lack of imagination or budget often restricts alien creatures to appearing as merely slightly modified humans. Even the majority of Earth life, which is in the sea, is much more alien than these. Of all the animals on Earth, our humanoid form takes up an infinitesimal room in the grand list of body types, so...

Meg Elison was born May 10, 1982. Her military family moved frequently, living in Europe and more than a dozen US states. She left home at 14 and dropped out of high school, but later attended community college and completed her degree at the University of California, Berkeley. Elison’s debut, feminist postapocalyptic novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (2014), won the Philip K. Dick Award and launched the Road to Nowhere series, which also includes Dick Award finalist The Book of Etta (...

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