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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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Neal Stephenson’s The System Of The World

… I think it’s clear why science fiction offers scope for people who want to explore the … great dramas of ancient history but don’t want to write historical fiction. Because if you have an enormous galactic empire, you can … Continue reading

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Amy M. Clarke’s Ursula K. Le Guin’s Journey to Post-Feminism

Joseph Thompson wrote this review. Learning about an artist is risky business. Near the end of my college career, I lost all respect for a musician I greatly admired after taking a senior seminar about that musician. The course confirmed … Continue reading

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Martha Wells’ System Collapse

This installment of The Murderbot Diaries series picks up pretty much where Network Effect left off. SecUnit (aka Murderbot) and its frenemy, the transport ship mind Perihelion (which Murderbot calls ART for Asshole Research Transport) and a handful of humans … Continue reading

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Jessica Reisman’s The Z Radiant

I’m torn. I don’t want to begin a discussion of author Jessica Reisman‘s wonderful debut novel by opening with the least appealing aspect. But I’m afraid I have no choice. This thing is so huge, and it’s the very first … Continue reading

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