Among Others

Jo Walton's tale of a 15-year-old Welsh girl whose imagination is animated by fairies, haunted by her dead twin, and nourished by her prodigious reading of fantasy and science fiction novels is the most surprising, compelling, and life-enhancing novel I've read in five years. Even though I am unfamiliar with the science fiction canon the young narrator traverses in these pages, I've found her voice bewitching, her passionate affirmation of reading entrancing, and her character wholly unforgettable.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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