Book Review – Seeds of Change
Editor: John Joseph Adams Publisher: Prime Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: August 2008 For the anthology Seeds of Change, editor John Joseph Adams asked a number of authors to write about paradigm shifts. Stories about the moment where the way of thinking about a subject changes radically, where old ideas are left behind and a [...]
Book Review – Zahrah The Windseeker
Author: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu Publisher: Graphia Binding: Paperback Publication Date: February 2008 When I was elementary school, I found a copy of young adult author Virginia Hamilton’s foray into science fiction, Justice and Her Brothers. This novel and its sequels (forming the ‘Justice’ series) cemented my interest in speculative fiction. After a diet of The Hobbit [...]
Book Review – The Shadow Speaker
Author: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu Publisher: Hyperion Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2007 The world is a changed place in 2070. A bomb created to counteract a nuclear attack unwittingly opens dimensional gates between worlds, ushering in magic that alters the landscape. Spontaneous forests appear out of nowhere one day, and are gone the next. Storms are [...]
