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Science Fiction & Fantasy   — by Arley Sorg — Sheree Renée Thomas was born in Memphis, TN. The eldest child of an air force vet, she grew up on various military bases. She eventually moved to New York, where she lived for twenty years before returning to live in Memphis. She worked at genre bookstore Forbidden Planet, as well as working full-time in publishing while freelancing on the side, doing everything from writing jacket copy to proofreading and copyediting to editing. In 2000, Time Warner published Thomas’ groundbreaking anthology Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fic­tio...

Welcome to my ridiculously detailed reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles. This week’s post covers chapters 120-126 of The Wise Man’s Fear but also contains extensive spoilers for the whole book and the whole of The Name of the Wind—these discussions assume you’ve read all of both books. These posts are full of spoilers, please don’t venture beyond the cut unless you want them.  Abbreviations: NW = The Name of the Wind. WMF = The Wise Man’s Fear. D3 = Day Three, the forthcoming final volume. K = Kvothe or Kote when I can’t figure out what to call him and I’...

The Name of the Wind. WMF = The Wise Man’s Fear. DT = Day Three, the forthcoming final volume. K = Kvothe or Kote when I can’t figure out what to call him and I’m feeling Kafkaesque. Spoilers and speculations below. Chapter Sixteen is called Hope, and it is the terrible chapter in which Kvothe’s troupe are killed by the Chandrian. The hope is that his parents didn’t waste their time preparing dinner but had a little time to be together before they died… and that’s about as hopeful as it gets. There’s a lot in this chapter. To start with, they’re traveling fifteen or twenty...

Thomas is best known for her work as an editor, including Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fic­tion from the African Diaspora (2000) and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2004) – both won World Fantasy Awards, and Thomas was the first Black writer to win a WFA. She has also edited genre magazines including Apex and Strange Horizons. She was recently named the new editor of F&SF, taking over from outgoing editor C.C. Finlay starting with the March/April 2021 issue. Thomas is a prolific author of short fiction and poetry, and began producing work of genre interest with “How Sukie Cros...

You hear this. these are the blankets that they wfr sleeping under. we did see kids watching an animated movie in spanish. many of them were sleeping inside. the vice president spoke a lotle of the kid kids, asking them ho they were doing and if they were good care of. one said it took two months to get here. another said three months there. they're there within 72 houshs and released by law. the problem is much better at these facilities housing families. there's more bed to house them, so, they are able to leave more easily. before that funding, they would stay beyond the 72 hours.