Sci-fi and fantasy round-up: Watch out for a weird time-travelling mother and a half-human, half-mosquito anti-heroine
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay (Tor, £22) opens with the xenobiologist Daghdev exiled to the gulag planet of Kiln for ...
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This Author, Famous for His Rags-to-Riches Stories, Forever Shaped How We Talk About the American Dream
Horatio Alger's repetitive stories reached their true popularity and became synonymous with social mobility largely thanks to ...
She Published a Blockbuster Book. Was It a Blessing or a Curse?
In Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel, “Death of the Author,” a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art ...
Writing Fantasy Came Naturally. Reality Was Far More Daunting.
After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own ...