What we're reading in science fiction and fantasy.
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Death of the Author is the story of Zelu, the black sheep of an anything-but-ordinary Nigerian-American family. Her parents and her four siblings are astronomically accomplished STEM exemplars dwelling comfortably in Chicago's upper middle class. Not only are they educated and wealthy, they are also
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It’s been done before. That’s the starting point for Alice and Peter, two grad students who have made it their mission to go to Hell. There is nothing new under the sun in their world of analytic magick, and so they, like any other students of mathematics, literature,
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Octavia Butler is most famous for her Parable of the Sower, published in 1993 and featuring prescient themes about social and climate justice that remain relevant more than three decades later. Butler was a productive author and worked on many books, stories, and essays before and after Sower, many of