The Infinite Future likes to mix its genres, stories, and narrators. Released in January 2018 by Penguin Press, Tim Wirkus’ work is a novel that is broken into two sections. There is the search for an ancient manuscript, and the manuscript itself: Two tales live within this one book.
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Book Review: Tim Wirkus’ The Infinite Future
Book Review: Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill
by Cameron Finch
Fusing fantasy, horror, gothic romance, and the supernatural, the stories of Minnesota-based Kelly Barnhill host a menagerie of undead magicians, poetic corpses, haunted witches, and evasive female pirates.
Book Review: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
by Paul Daniel Ash
The literary world has been applying the “-punk” suffix to science fiction sub-genres so frequently and for so long that it sometimes verges on self-parody. It all began with cyberpunk, a description of the 80s noir-esque SF of Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, and of course William Gibson. This was soon followed by steampunk, a term… Continue reading Book Review: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
by Paul Daniel Ash
My Darling Detective by Howard Norman
by Sarah Leamy
Norman is a master of atmosphere and despite the levity of the parallel detective stories, My Darling Detective has these touches of such realism that we, the readers, leave with a strong sense of the trauma of war on a personal level.
Blackbirds in September: Selected Shorter Poems of Jürgen Becker
by Ian Haight
Becker’s belief in reality, his faith in meaning, and his understanding that meaning can be communicated, has value, and originates in consciousness; are all affirmations of human life. These are ideas worthy of gratitude.
Portrait of the Alcoholic by Kaveh Akbar
by Genevieve N. Williams
Kaveh Akbar writes with such spiritual risk and honesty that we as readers are brought into the liminal spaces of language, addiction, and displacement.