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William Shunn’s An Alternate History of the 21st Century, and Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt’s Flytrap #8

I had rather a shock when I finished William Shunn’s An Alternate History of the 21st Century. Most of the comments and analyses I’d come up with while reading these stories were echoed in the author’s “Afterword.” I’m not quite … Continue reading

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Tim Pratt’s Sympathy For The Devil

Pleased to mee-choo. Yeah, I said it. And no, this isn’t a collection of stories about The Rolling Stones, try again. Yep, it’s all Lucifer, all the time in this collection. Editor Tim Pratt collects some of his favorite stories … Continue reading

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T. A. Pratt’s Poison Sleep

Poison Sleep is the new Marla Mason book from Tim Pratt, writing as T. A. Pratt. Blood Engines, the first volume in what is bound to be a successful series of books following the adventures of the same heroine, was … Continue reading

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Heather Shaw’s When We Were Six

While I have admired Heather Shaw’s creative contributions to Flytrap, the zine she co-produces with Tim Pratt, When We Were Six is the first chance I have had to read her fiction. Some aspects of this new chapbook, such as … Continue reading

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Tim Pratt’s Little Gods

Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. Every generation, there are writers who emerge who seem to get it a little better than the rest of us. They’re the ones who understand story and myth and the ways we write our … Continue reading

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T. A. Pratt’s Blood Engines

Marla Mason is not a people person. She’s too suspicious of people’s motives to have friends, she doesn’t enjoy casual chitchat, and she considers the fact that people want to kill her a plus, since death threats ensure she keeps … Continue reading

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Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw’s Flytrap 7

Along with the Heather Shaw chapbook reviewed elsewhere in Green Man Review, Issue 7 of Flytrap demonstrates that Tropism Press is a source for consistently intelligent and experimental speculative fiction. The tone of Flytrap is set in large part by … Continue reading

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Masufumi Yamamoto’s The Manga Guide to Relativity

J.J.S. Boyce wrote this for Sleeping Hedgehog. Ohmsha’s Manga Guide series – with expert English translations courtesy of No Starch Press – has consistently shown its ability to do everything an introductory textbook aims to do, achieving maximum interest and … Continue reading

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Anthony Bourdain’s Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Joseph Thompson wrote this review. Few things in this world highlight humanity’s truculence like the feast of Ortolan. This small bunting, force fed through manipulations of its diurnal cycle and then drowned in Armagnac, is eaten whole. With a cloth … Continue reading

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Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars

Don’t ask me how it’s been four years since I read and reviewed The Relentless Moon, the third full-length novel in Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series. Stuff’s been going on, I guess. But I finally happened to check at … Continue reading

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