Writer Reinvents a Classic With ‘Scrooge . . . The Relapse’
John McCaffrey is a prolific writer and creative writing teacher who lives in Wainscott. Durell Godfrey In the earliest days
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April is showering us with two excellent SFF collections right at the start of the month, which both feel like poking around in the brains of their respective authors (Cixin Liu and Ann Leckie). If you’re more in the mood for a novel to get lost in—maybe even, weather permitting, at a café or the park—Leigh Bardugo and R.A. Salvatore are charting new territory in familiar worlds, while Thomas Olde Heuvelt finds a new way to chill us, V. Castro a new way to thrill us, and Elaine U. Cho rockets us into space. And let’s not forget the other exciting April titles featured in our 2024 preview , including John Wiswell’s monster romance debut. * Despite his own assertion that “the nature of science fiction is to shine brightest in the present, then to be quickly forgotten,” Galaxy Award-winning author Cixin Liu has nonetheless amassed an impressive body of work that certainly seems to hold up after three decades. This new collection spans from 1987-2015 and features both engaging short stories from the Three-Body Problem author as well as incisive nonfiction commentary on the genre, especially from his position as a Chinese sci-fi author. Translations from a variety of authors and scholars including S. Qiouyi Lu and Emily Jin provide another layer of what feels like a fascinating, multi-timeline conversation about both the fictional and nonfictional facets of the genre. You would be forgiven for being most familiar with Ann Leckie as a novelist (especially for her Hugo Award-winning Ancillary Justice ), but over the years she has built up an impressive library of short fiction. This new collection plays to that familiarity with her expansive SFF worlds, with explorations into the thousand gods of The Raven Tower as well as depictions of key historical events in the Imperial Radch universe. But there are also plenty of standalone stories that allow the author to play with various styles and ideas, from lobster dogs to epistolary SFF. If you’re still grieving Netflix’s cancellation of the Shadow and Bone TV series, may you experience a small consolation in the form […]
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John McCaffrey is a prolific writer and creative writing teacher who lives in Wainscott. Durell Godfrey In the earliest days
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