Category Archives: review

Reviews of Short Fiction: July Edition

Each month, Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered.

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Review: The Mission by Péter Zsoldos

translated from the Hungarian by András Szabados Profiford Bt. May 6, 2018 (originally published in Hungarian in 1971) 190 pages (see András Szabados’s essay on Zsoldos (this site) and Bogi Takács’ essay “Geographic accidents: the Gregor Man trilogy by Péter Zsoldos” (via Locus)) Péter Zsoldos (1930-1997)  was a Hungarian sf author in the US-UK tradition,

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Review: Catastrophe by Dino Buzzati

translated by Judith Landry Ecco (Harper Collins) March 27, 2018 (most of the stories- originally 1965) 240 pages grab a copy Contents: “The Collapse of the Baliverna” “Catastrophe” “The Epidemic” “The Landslide” “Just the Very Thing They Wanted” “Oversight” “The Monster” “Seven Floors” “The March of Time” “The Alarming Revenge of a Domestic Pet” “And

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Review: Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World, ed. Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro

translated from the Portuguese by Fábio Fernandes World Weaver Press August 7, 2018 286 pages grab a copy   Contents: “Soylent Green is People!” by Carlos Orsi “When Kingdoms Collide” by Telmo Marçal “Breaking News!” by Romeu Martins “Once Upon a Time in a World” by Antonio Luiz M. C. Costa “Escape” by Gabriel Cantareira

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Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 6: Flight by Yoshiki Tanaka

translated by Tyran Grillo Haikasoru April 17, 2018 224 pages grab a copy   Unlike the previous five books in Tanaka’s Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Flight offers readers no space battles and little hand-to-hand combat (though there is some of the latter partway through the book, and it’s kind of graphic). Instead, this

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Reviews of Short Fiction: June Edition

Each month, Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered.

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Reviews of Short SFT: May Edition

Each month, Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered.

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Guest Review: Nekomonogatari (White) by Nisioisin

Andrea Johnson and her husband live in a college town in Michigan, where their home looks like a library exploded. They are both okay with this living arrangement.  Andrea reviews science fiction and fantasy books at Little Red Reviewer (littleredreviewer.wordpress.com), and talks non-bookish things at Girl Stuff (thegirlstuffblog.wordpress.com). If you chat with her on twitter,

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Reviews of Short SFT: April Edition

Each month, Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered.

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Review: The Invisible Valley by Su Wei

translated by Austin Woerner Small Beer Press April 3, 2018 400 pages grab a copy Read an excerpt here Read an interview with the translator here The Invisible Valley is one of those hard-to-classify novels that resists labels precisely because it’s exploring, through the story it tells, what terms like “fantasy,” “reality,” and “magic” even

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