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Jonathan Strahan (by Francesca Myman) I started the year with good intentions. I intended to read every piece of short fiction that I could lay my hands on, every major novel, every exciting debut or anthology or short story collection and more. I would read all the things. This is the story of how I did not read all the things. I did not even read most of the things. Way back in January, everything seemed simple. I hadn’t heard of a growing problem in China; I’d just delivered my Year’s Best SF anthology to the pub­lisher and finished my part in

With its long and shady history, poker seems to have a natural affinity for fantasy writers, ranging from Edward Whittemore ( Jerusalem Poker) to Tim Powers ( Last Call). It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the ever-eclectic Lavie Tidhar turns his attention to it with The Big Blind, which is peppered with cardsharp lingo and informed descriptions of high-stakes games. There’s not actually a shred of SF or fantasy in the novella, so the obvious question is, why mention it at all here? Well, Tidhar has long taken a kind of perverse glee in his own unpredictability, sometimes blurring the ...

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Book Review: The Perfect Science Fiction, Fantasy and Genre-Bending Tales for the Chilly Days Ahead Reviewed by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lavie Tidhar,, special to The Washington Post 12/22/2020 1:33 PM select Moreno-Garcia is the author of “Mexican Gothic,” Gods of Jade and Shadow” and “Signal to Noise.” Lavie Tidhar is the author of several novels, including “The Violent Century,” “A Man Lies Dreaming,” “Central Station” and, most recently, “By Force Alone.” © 2020, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group Winter...

Book World: The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar, The Washington Post Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail "The Snow Queen" and "Smilla's Sense of Snow."Tor Books; Picador Winter is here. It may have taken a long time to come in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, but when it hits, all you want to do is curl up in bed and lock the doors against the snow zombies. Winter has long fascinated writers. In C.S. Lewis's classic "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" the four Pevensie children mus...