Our Editors’ Top 5 SFF (and Horror) Reads of 2021
Our editors each chose five books they’ve read in 2021 (that weren’t necessarily written in 2021) that they highly recommend.
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Book Reviews
REVIEW: “The Game Weavers” by Rebecca Zahabi
Rebecca Zahabi sets her gripping debut in a future Britain of much darker times. Gay rights have been set back
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REVIEW: “The Echoed Realm” by A.J. Vrana
by Alex Khlopenko In the world of trilogies, where the second book is usually a teaser-trailer for the final installment,
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REVIEW: “The Mold Farmer” by Rick Claypool
by Alexander Pyles Some stories are able to describe our cultural malaise better than news reports and, in many ways,
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REVIEW: “The Marquis” by Guy Davis
By Anthony Perconti I first became aware of the works of artist Guy Davis, I believe, in the late 1980’s.
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REVIEW: “Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke” by Eric LaRocca
This novella can be read in one sitting and it should be read in one sitting. Though it’s understandable if you would need to take a break from this epistolary tale of intoxicating obsession.
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TV REVIEW: “Sweet Home” K-Drama
Sweet Home is one of the incredibly few horror pieces I’ve experienced where I can honestly say I was engaged by the characters and wanted most of them to survive the horrors all around them.
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REVIEW: “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi has that feeling; like it is being beamed in from outside the genre bubble…it is fun, beautifully written with a tight story.
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REVIEW: “Tender is the Flesh” by Augustina Bazterrica
In her horror sensation “Tender is the Flesh” Bazterrica reminds us what it means to be human and that ultimately we need one another, but we do not eat one another in order to achieve that.
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REVIEW: “The Damsel” by David Dixon
The Damsel by David Dixon is an immersive character-centric space novella focusing on the two-man privateering team behind the Black Sun 490 freighter.
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