Stephen Graham Jones on Exploring Morality and Ecology with ‘Earthdivers’
Stephen Graham Jones’ horror/sci-fi lays eggs in your head. With his latest project, the Earthdivers (Kill Columbus), his ideas for an alternative America crawl out.
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Missouri Williams’ ‘The Doloriad’ Pulls Itself Along the Ground
Missouri Williams’ ‘The Doloriad’ is a perverse tale of human remnants scratching out a bare survival like a lone pine twisting out of a stony cliff.
Of Botany, Hacking, Biosurveillance, and Boredom; Or, Pola Oloixarac’s ‘Dark Constellations’
Pola Oloixarac's Dark Constellations is what the late Michael Crichton might have written if he had grown up in Argentina and fancied himself a high postmodernist.
Difficult Wonders in Joyce Carol Oates’ ‘Beautiful Days’
Of these short story jewels, Oates displays her greatest strengths in "Fractal", and the effects are profoundly strange and moving in ways that only she can seem to execute.
Triptych the Light Fantastic: Nicole Brossard’s ‘Mauve Desert’
A frustrating, demanding and ultimately fascinating exercise in experimental fiction, Mauve Desert is the story of one adolescent’s life colliding with the emotional landscapes of others’.