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Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt’s Flytrap #6

Flytrap #6 is the latest issue of this little jewel of a ‘zine published twice a year by Tropism Press. As usual, this issue of Flytrap includes the quirky combination of personal newsletter and literary magazine that gives it so … Continue reading

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Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt’s Flytrap #5

Flytrap is a twice yearly zine from Tropism Press, except when it isn’t because the editors were on their honeymoon (see the pictures of Hawaii which illustrate this issue). Such eclectic elements are part of what makes this zine so … Continue reading

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Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt’s Flytrap #10

Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. Flytrap: a little zine with teeth is gone. Parenting is more complex than Heather and Tim expected (well, millions of us could have told them that), and so is the rest of life (ditto), … 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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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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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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Simon Jimenez’s The Vanished Birds

This is a most impressive debut novel. A finalist for the Locus Award for 2020 and named one of the best books of the year by tordotcom and Kirkus Reviews, it was also selected by Jo Walton as one of … Continue reading

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Sue Burke’s Dual Memory

I haven’t yet read Sue Burke’s debut Semiosis, which recently received high praise from Jo Walton, who put it on her list of the Top Ten Genre Books of the First Quarter of the Century over at Reactor Mag. It … Continue reading

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Charles de Lint’s Svaha

Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Svaha is a little different from what we are accustomed to seeing from Canadian fantasist Charles de Lint, being much more science fiction than fantasy. However, there are elements of urban and mythic fantasy … Continue reading

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Larry Doyle’s Go, Mutants!

“People are human beings . . . even if they aren’t.” You remember high school. Knowledge you were sure would never be needed once you could grab your diploma and really start living, dances that were so much better in … Continue reading

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