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worlds away
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Now in Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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This week, I officially began my thesis course to finish off the MFA program I began in 2021. So far, it seems my project will be completing a lighthearted sci-fi tale, which feels fitting, as lighthearted sci-fi and fantasy is where my listening leans right now. You can call it escapism, but I like to think of these supposed low-stakes tales as a means of rediscovering the small moments of magic and delight in our existence when the rest of it feels like chaos. Good luck to you, dear reader, in whatever lofty endeavors you’re kicking off in this new year—you can do it. But also, when it starts to feel too hard, remember to take a moment and appreciate those tiny delights.
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Zelu is a down-on-her-luck writer who just got fired from her adjunct teaching job and received a series of rejections on her latest novel. Lost, she begins writing a sci-fi story that consumes her life in unpredictable ways. Nnedi Okorafor shifts between Zelu’s POV, interviews with her family members, and chapters of Zelu’s novel, Rusted Robots, sending listeners on a scavenger hunt to piece together the true story. Four narrators make this unique structure all the more compelling. It’s hard to imagine anyone spinning this tale of authorship, identity, and art better than Okorafor.
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Something witchy this way comes
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If the pitch-perfect cast (Leslie Howard, Hillary Huber, and Sara Morsey), witchy plot, and authentic ’70s vibes of Grady Hendrix’s latest horror don’t put you under a spell, then the darkly swirling sisterhood and very real horrors of pregnancy and fear of women’s autonomy will. Body horror, lava lamps, and big “smash the patriarchy” energy from a male author who dares to go there? Groovy.
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Falling hard for romantasy
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In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, Onyx Storm, the hotly anticipated third entry in Rebecca Yarros’s Empyrean series, is out in just under a week. And while the wait begins anew for the next installment, fear not—there’s plenty more romantasy and dragon-filled fantasy to discover. In fact, traditional romance authors are finding their way onto the scene.
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